Written as reward
Benevolent monarch hands
Meaning to illiterate minions
Clinging onto every word
Posted in advertisement
The philosophical sword
Hangs on a single hair
Virtue is written in sunlight
Submitted to AllPoetry’s ‘An Expression of Yourself’ course – Brevity.
With this assignment, I would like you to use metaphor and simile. Focus on the ordinary but make it something more expansive to where your mind cannot find the outer walls of the images.
As an extra idea, I also put this through the N+7 machine and used (mostly) the results from N+14
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I somehow don’t really believe in benevolent powers.
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The first stanza is specific reference to Thailand where unconditional love for the king is still widespread and education is quite poor.
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Good use of irony.
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The single hair is still intact! Thank you. 🙏
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Well we can only hope so but it really depends on whose vision is all the more important.
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Some folks leave the vision up to others unfortunately.
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