Clichés

[Rose Love]

I apologize in advance for this absurdity. I just couldn't help but notice the cruel prejudice here against clichés, so I felt the need to defend the little guys ...which means I was inspired to throw together this silly little thing. I suppose it could be clever if I worked on it, but clever poetry isn't really my thing (too much intellectual work)... This is dedicated to Billy, Leanne, TimeOnMyHands and to anyone else who has singled out a cliché in someone's poem :

Cliché
So
you don’t like my cliché
What’s wrong with it?
It’s mine
I did not filch it
from the monodrones

In my context
this cliché
speaks!
It speaks my heart
which
it just so happens
occasionally flies
on a wing and a prayer
and lands precariously
on thin ice
Then
slip-sliding down the way
tumbles head-over-heels
off the deep end
into a bottomless pit
of romantic clichés

because like all hearts
mine has lived
loved
lost
bled
and died
just a little inside
with each
unrequited love

Not quite a poem, but a poem in the rough.

[Leanne]

:p

When you're aware that you're using a cliche, then it's not a cliche...

[Rose Love]

:p

When you're aware that you're using a cliche, then it's not a cliche...

Lol. Really? Oops
Maybe some day I'll write a proper poem on the subject

[Leanne]

I possibly just made that up... no really, we'd call this a metapoem (and they're my favourite kind)

[Rose Love]

I possibly just made that up... no really, we'd call this a metapoem (and they're my favourite kind)

What is a metapoem? I was just teasing a little with it, that's all Silliness.

[Leanne]

I love silliness

Metapoems are poems about poems, or about writing poems -- they're self-conscious or self-aware, generally poking fun or making puns about things associated with creating poetry.

[billy]

it's a fuckin travesty of a travesty these type of cliched poem work really well because to understand them and the mechanics of them, you have to know what a cliche is. most will be sat thinking, why has she called it cliche .

line 6 isn't cliche enough and you spelled cliche with the little squiggly slant which make it more of a slap to those who use cliche

i enjoyed the read a lot

[Keith]

I apologize in advance for this absurdity. I just couldn't help but notice the cruel prejudice here against clichés, so I felt the need to defend the little guys ...which means I was inspired to throw together this silly little thing. I suppose it could be clever if I worked on it, but clever poetry isn't really my thing (too much intellectual work)... This is dedicated to Billy, Leanne, TimeOnMyHands and to anyone else who has singled out a cliché in someone's poem :

Cliché
So
you don’t like my cliché
What’s wrong with it?
It’s mine
I did not filch it
from the monodrones

In my context
this cliché
speaks!
It speaks my heart
which
it just so happens
occasionally flies
on a wing and a prayer
and lands precariously
on thin ice
Then
slip-sliding down the way
tumbles head-over-heels
off the deep end
into a bottomless pit
of romantic clichés

because like all hearts
mine has lived
loved
lost
bled
and died
just a little inside
with each
unrequited love

Not quite a poem, but a poem in the rough.

Love this clever piece, it makes me see the watery sun comming up over snow covered mountains and feel so full of joy, I could burst
Thanks for the read.TOMH

[Rose Love]

it's a fuckin travesty of a travesty these type of cliched poem work really well because to understand them and the mechanics of them, you have to know what a cliche is. most will be sat thinking, why has she called it cliche .

line 6 isn't cliche enough and you spelled cliche

Hmmm, yes... Well, since I wrote it for you, I'll see what I can do...
Is this better?

So
you don’t like my cliché
What’s wrong with it?
It’s mine
and
when merged into my mind’s eye
it dons my own true colors

or something like that? I've come up with some other options, but didn't like them too much.

with the little squiggly slant which make it more of a slap to those who use cliche

Yes, the French accent. That's a habit I guess I picked up from...well, French .

What's funny to me is that I had all but forgotten the original meaning of the word "cliché" because for the past years I have only been using the word to refer to people. I say most people are clichés of one another. I get fed up and tired with people saying the same old **** to me, no matter what country they're from, what language they speak or what situation it's in reference too. It's the monotony of tedium, or tedium of monotony. People. I like unique people who stand out from the crowd (oh, another good cliché! Hey, that might be a better one to fit into that stanza...)

So
you don’t like my cliché
What’s wrong with it?
It’s mine
and
when merged into my mind’s eye
it stands out from the crowd

(sounds like it needs another syllable there)

i enjoyed the read a lot

Good, it was fun to write too
Thanks for the inspiration . I've reviewed my poems and I think this is the first poem of this kind (silliness) I've ever written, or ever written and saved.

[Leanne]

you forgot "straight from the heart" and "from the depths of my soul" :p

[billy]

and the souls of her feet

[Rose Love]

Love this clever piece, it makes me see the watery sun comming up over snow covered mountains and feel so full of joy, I could burst
Thanks for the read.TOMH

Watery sun? Eeew. There are a couple I haven't heard.

I saw your Replies 0 poem--. Good one--and thanks for the laugh. Maybe you should write a cliché poem too? It's not like there's a shortage of clichés...

@Billy--the poem wasn't meant to be a comprehensive compilation of clichés lol.

I think I found a solution for the first stanza. At least one I like better than the ones I thought of last night (it was too late).

So
you don’t like my cliché
What’s wrong with it?
It’s mine
And any idea
no matter how rough
is a diamond in my soul

I'm still not satisfied, but I have faith that some day I will find the right solution there

[billy]

@Billy--the poem wasn't meant to be a comprehensive compilation of clichés lol.

pull the other one, you're yanking my chain.

can't wait to see the full edit. it's gonna be a big poem by the end of it all