Tank Tuesday Poetry Challenge #23, 7/29/25: Metaphors. Carrying A Torch.

This week on Tuesday Tanka Robbie is out host. Here is what Robbie has to say: “Hi everyone, it’s Robbie here with you today, and my challenge for everyone is to write a syllabic poem using a metaphor.

The Oxford Dictionary describes a metaphor as follows:

“A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.”

I have used bold type to display my metaphors

Invisible

She
carries
A torch for
him
, yet sadly
He is blind to this
Wearing her heart on her
Sleeve. Worships the ground he treds.

Unrequited the love she bears
Ignored, she is rubbish underfoot.
Yesterday’s leftovers blown to the wind.

This is part of Robbie’s Tanka Tuesday. 💜💜

Visit Robbie’s post for more information on this prompt and to find out more about Metaphors. Her link is here.

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Agony

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Hiding in the corners basking in the dark,

It is waiting there to get me, more vicious than the Quark.

Stitching me up and lashing closed my eyes

Slimy slimy fingers creeping up my thighs!

 

Sharp sharp fingernails ripping off my clothes

Crawling into me via all orifices in they filthy dirty droves.

Churning up my stomach making me heave  and vomit crud

Ripping up my insides and boiling up my blood.

 

Slithering across my skin leaving silver trails

Kicking and punching me until I give in and let forth wails.

Giving me no quarter cutting me no slack

Agony is stalking  me and smashing in my back!

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