if you add me up, please.

I shall try and go to war on this one lol.
Yours as always, Ian..
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I tried to track that piece, but unfortunately I failed. The thread "forms from A-N", though really rich, yet it's stuffed. There must be a way to make it easier to locate what we need to read about. Maybe you can underline the titles? I know it is a time-consuming work, but it is worth it for all what that thread tells.

That's too much at once for the moment. Chrys has not even begun the workshop and I, for one, want to see where she wants to go.
Please don't preempt her too aggressively.
She has a plan. Let it play out first.

Someone add me to this bloody workshop please.

Please count me in. I'm tire of metathrees and am ready to move on to metafours............now ducking for pun induced stone hurling lol.......stan

so sorry I can't participate, typing with one finger after nearly severing the middle finger of my left hand ( I'm left-handed) typing is a real pain. (one shouldn't really try to dance to the B52s 'Rock Lobster' at my age)
I'll follow with interest.
I think you can also see from the members joining that we really, really need new members. Lots of them. If we are not both on the upcoming AC I hope you will make a membership drive a priority.

I have added a piece to my A-N of poetry and if you need to see a bit on Metaphors just search this link:-

https://www.neopoet.com/sparrow/blog/fri-2015-01-23-0850

It takes me there and as I have put this workshop at the top no need to search further,
Yours Ian..

I knew you would figure it out. I'll check the link right now.

Joy, profound joy, sadness and profound, happy, aggravated, patience, impatience, pride, shame,anger, forgiveness,stubbornness,content, ambition,envy......... I reckon I should leave a few for others lol......stan

I am as steel
you are my temper
you alone can make me feel
indeed, whimper

Manic, panicked, amain (a state of rage characterized by excessive and reckless violence), apprehensive, uncomfortable, edgy, ecstatic, annoyed, worried, concerned, just plain fearful, disgusted, I think I could list more.

confused, grief, hate, jealousy.

A blinking eye,
staring, not understanding.
Is it truth or a lie?
A face crumpling.

Trickles of water dripping.
A voice screaming
'' I hate you! Go and die!''
Legs running, no goodbye.

A boy standing, unmoving.
The second girl demanding.
''Who is she?''. No reply.
Another left, chances fly..

What do you think?

Alid

Chrys may be having computer problems. We haven't been able to contact her, but we're trying. If we can't, Rula and I will continue along the lines of Chrys' plan.
We will begin an exercise using metaphors tomorrow and ultimately we will have to discuss "simile" and how they relate to metaphors.
Is everyone still with us? There is still a lot to do.

Until Chrys or Wesley appear or hopefully both, let's continue with more figures of speech that are related to metaphor as figurative parts of speech.

Simile is a known as an effective tool that is very often used in writing poetry. The main difference between metaphor and simile is that with simile we use "as" or "like" WHILE in metaphor we don't. e.g The girl is the sun (metaphor)

The girl is like the sun (simile)

However, it is VERY important to draw the attention here to the fact that what makes simile and such tools effective is trying to bring the similarities between TWO THINGS that look to be very different.

The differences rather than the similarities between objects, concepts, and entities is what bring the real "juice" to the poem, and so it is playing with the difference via juxtaposition what creates a range of poetic effects This is why writing: “the shark moved like a fish” IS a lot less interesting than saying “the shark moved like a squad car.”

To make sure this is clear, please provide two or more examples of metaphor or simile or both .

Metaphors-

I'll be the light in your darkest night.

Will you be the temple of my heart?

Similes

He darted forward like an arrow.

She is as white as snow.

Alid

Stan writes sonnets like a donkey

on both of you. You both have written excellent sonnets in the past. I have read them, so you cannot deny it.

Now, can you write a "Ballade"? When we are through here I will start that workshop in the Shark Pool. I don't want any more than five participants, please be ready... if you dare.

My love is like a clear spring day

Breeze brushed my skin like a lover's caress

He ran, leaping, through the woods like a deer

The poet sat scratching his head like a baffled monkey

His anger burned like a fever

For Chrys's workshop:-

I fell in love
Tears flooded
Rainbow feelings
I waited dead calm
An angel you were

There me a devil
It captured me
Wrapped me in tingles
Then I awoke
Lost as a singularity

Yours Ian ..

Good verses
I bet she'd be happy to read them :)

Please don't stop bringing more. Practice makes perfect and we can do always do better when we are not under pressure.

Here are more

*Her eyes are his balcony view to the world.
*He blows volcanoes when he's angry.

Seems like Chrys has some serious problems. So let's think of the next exercise.

We need now to think of description of a subject. ANY SUBJECT.
We need to think of a full description of it. Material or texture, weight, how does it look like, color... etc.

The idea behind this assignment is NOT TO USE ANY METAPHOR.

When your descriptive poem is ready, please stream it. DON'T forget to add the workshop's name to the title and chose it from the menue drop list.

Let's do something different this time. When you submit your descriptive poem, please make sure to give a short assessment of your poem. Tell us where do you think you've fulfilled the assignment requirements and where you felt less convenient and thus need to re-work. What areas you've covered and what areas you haven't.

We must do this step before the others come to critic your poem.
I have just submitted mine and I'll be the first to do the self assessment.

I have just added you. You must be able to find it now.

While waiting for both Loved's and Ian's submissions of the second assignment, we'll need to think of the next piece which is related to the second assignment which we have already finished about writing without using metaphor or simile.

What we are going to do is to use the SAME subject but this time we are describing it by using metaphor and simile and/ or any other tools you find affective to make the two "different" things look similar.

I will talk about two extra tools you might like to include in your poem.

mostly ready for the two secret tools you have.

I must have them!
Don't make me take them from you...

I'll be back in few minutes.

I thought we can't talk about metaphor without talking about two other figures of speech; synecdoche and metonymy

A synecdoche is a type of trope, which is a figure of speech. When used in literature, a synecdoche will add to the visual imagery of the passage and enhance the reader’s experience.

1. A synecdoche may use part of something to represent the entire whole.

The word “bread” can be used to represent food in general or money.

•A metonymy is a substitution where a word or phrase is used in place of another word or phrase.

A good example is the phrase “The pen is mightier than the sword.”

The word “pen” substitutes for written work, and the word “sword” substitutes for violence or warfare.

This is just a quick look into the two terms - figures of speech - which might spice up our writings.

Hope the examples make them pretty clear for everyone.

You need to write a new piece about the same subject. You wrote about the space, so you need to write about the space again using whatever figures of speech you need; metaphor, simile, synecdoche and metonymy

For Stan's and Ian's 3rd submission before we assign the last one

before we come to the end, let's please consider writing a poem in which we'd limit all the figures of speech used to refer to "one theme", or what might be called " one thematic unity, so, all the metaphors used should be connected to for example schools, or let's say weather, or sea...etc.

As we had previously written about different subjects rather than emotions, it is good now if we can give emotions more attention. I shall keep this optional however, so for the last assignment you either take an emotion and restrict your metaphor to one general theme, or choose again any subject matter but again you need it to be restricted to one thematic unity.

Please let me know if this is clear.

of what is "one thematic unity" for metaphor. Weather here is the metaphor used. Please notice the words "thunderstorm", "rain" and "hail" all used metaphorically to describe an emotion such as "Anger".

My anger is a thunderstorm

that rains sorrow

and hails regret

Ok. I think I have brought here everything I needed to about metaphor, at least for the time being. I'm not sure how informative or useful the workshop was, but I am well satisfied if it has put some fresh breath in all's poetry especially those who continued till the end with real persistance though they knew I was supposed to be here as a moderator, so again many thanks for bearing with me.
If you have any assignments or comments to add, please do the coming few days. I do appreciate it if you could check out if you gave a comment on all the submissions (including mine) LOL.

Thank you again and let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions or feedback to add.