A Great Online Poetry Workshop
I was looking for poem ideas recently, and had kind of hit a writer’s block. I stumbled across a great course: Sharpened Visions- An Online Poetry Workshop on Coursera run by the California Institute of Arts. Each week we explored new topics that helped us hone our skills as poets, and I was especially taken with the session about metaphors.
Metaphors About Life
During a session, we explored the use of metaphor in poetry and delved into the work of Victor Hernandez Cruz, a renowned Puerto Rican poet. The focus was on his poem “Red Beans” from his collection Maraca, which features selected poems published between 1965 and 2000. The discussion highlighted how Cruz’s Puerto Rican identity influenced the poem. The facilitator pointed out that the title of the poem and the first line were interconnected and worked together, emphasizing the importance of paying attention to these details when analyzing poetry, and how metaphors about life can truly be powerful.
Life Metaphor Poems: Soft as Diamonds
Without further ado, this was the poem that I wrote for that session, entitled Soft as Diamonds
He held her hand and she remarked at the sparkle of the ring,
the softness of love as a token of their forever,
while the hardness of the toil to uncover that very thing,
the miners spilt blood in their endeavour
Her voice in happiness was a brush of feathers
that tickled his ear and his heart
Little to no thought of the tethers
the rest of their future would impart
The blood that was spilt was ruby red
The stone it shone with a glimmering light
The couple decided to happy wed
While bodies piled into the night
What was your interpretation of the poem? Leave a comment below and let me know! Do you have any poem ideas you want to give me- write those as well!
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More poems in a similar mood: Soul Mates and Chaos.
This blog post is part of the blog challenge ‘Blogaberry Dazzle’ hosted by Cindy D’Silva and Noor Anand Chawla in collaboration with Mads’ Cookhouse.
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