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obscure metaphor and blinding imagery

This is going to be a mild rant, so if you were looking for another brilliant poem... go-way, go-way...  
 
Lately I have been reading a lot of poems that I have not left a comment on because I can't figure out for the life of me what the fu@# they are about. I'm starting to think I don't speak the same language or the metaphorical meanings in these poems is just going right over my head. Sometimes the imagery is very interesting, but it's like a jigsaw puzzle where all the pieces are cut into squares and somebody mixed in pieces from another puzzle so I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking at. Are metaphors nothing more than vagaries designed to disguise emotions of poets afraid to admit the truths within their hearts? Maybe I'm on to something here...
 
Maybe I'm just getting old. Maybe I should start drinking. I think I'll just go back to sleep!!!  
 
Nite-nite
 
JJ
Written by Poetryman
Published | Edited 20th Sep 2015
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