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What is hate? (metaphor workshop)

Submitted by wesley snow on Fri, 2015-09-11 16:14

Projectiles rifle through me
as flying bugs of harm,
but then what I do see
must be a culture’s charm.

They kill each other as a sport,
I cannot ken the rules
nor can I see what it purports,
in fact it’s rather cruel.

They have a term that’s quite concise,
it seems to mean a lot,
though little of it seems precise
they’re joyful that they fought.

They call it war.

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Structured: Western
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Editing stage: 
Editing - rough draft
Workshop: 
Hiding emotions in metaphors

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Rula

Sat, 2015-09-12 12:31

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I can relate to this as it is all what my eyes see these days. However I thought it talks more about the term "war" rather than emotions. Let's see what others might say.
Thanks for sharing.

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wesley snow

Sat, 2015-09-12 15:37

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the emotions of the combatants (joyful, happy they fought), but Chrys is right in a PM to me... there are no metaphors of these emotions. It is a clean poem reasonably contrived with good subject and fair structure. There is not one metaphor in the poem. I changed I think the second line in a try, but couldn't do anything else.
Suggestions? Please, deliberate line changes that are metaphors.

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