Charades

[parakleseos]

I don't see the relationship between cliches and crypticism... surely it's as desirable to avoid cliches when you're being cryptic as it is when you're being concrete? With the usual caveats about ironic usage, et cetera.

Thanks all.
Parakleseos - yes, I partly agree about the cliches. On the other hand, it's a fairly cryptic poem that I wanted to ground a little, not go totally flying off in space. Mostly, it's the penultimate line I don't like. Have to think on it.

Addy - yes, "forming" is a problem. She's meant to be prescribing medication, the end result of nearly all psychiatric reviews!There's an old piece of film in which the guy who invented the term "schizophrenia" and whose name escapes me, is shown with his various "case studies" talking about them, moving their limbs, as if they were plants or furniture.

Leanne - it certainly is fun flaying folk in verse. I think the poem is open to many different interpretations. I wonder what I'd make of it if it weren't mine. Demasculinising - is there such a word? - was meant
to be inferred.