metaphors – Cajun Mutt Press

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 12/11/23

December 11, 2023 James D. Casey IV

The Age Of Confusion

This was no room with a view
but a walled-in space,
a Matryoshka place
of confinement
each inside
the other

nightmarish,
unsettling,
fearful
even
a surreal world
styled by Magritte
perhaps
embracing confusion
as an opportunity
to see things
differently,
ordinary things
re-ordered
and re-filed
into

a Magrittean metaphor
for this Age of Confusion
so fearful
so unsettling
like any dream.

©2023 Lynn White All rights reserved.

Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud ‘War Poetry for Today’ competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award. Her poetry has appeared in many publications including: Apogee, Firewords, Capsule Stories, Light Journal and So It Goes.

Find Lynn at: https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com and https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 09/11/23

September 11, 2023 James D. Casey IV

GOD OF METAPHOR

Yesterday, when I voyage in the heart of supplications,
I met god sketching my father’s beards on his head
& I come by the shrine of speaking corpses.
the goddess door my ears,
my face battled her silly tongue
& I was said to heart the metaphor of God
by the shrine men planted my father’s breath.
still sketching goddess hairs on our backyard.
& today I heart, I mind, I face, I tongue. I god
on the epistle.
though; my tongue is the poetry of God.
& thus; with the metaphor of God, I me, I you,
I all; in the name of poetry (of God)
next time. I will come again.

Abubakar Auwal, Tpc VIII, NiSWA 001, is a bilingual teen poet, playwright, essayist, movie actor, graphics designer, storyteller and also a spoken word artist born in Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. Abubakar’s works have been published or are forthcoming in Teen Lit Journal, Synchronized Chaos magazine , Hello Poetry, LILAC Journal, Poetry.com, Words Rhymes & Rhythm, Art news.com.ng, Al-fijir MSSN magazine, New Voices Magazine, California Poppy Times, IJAEM journal, Flower Song press, Boundless 2023: the anthology of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival and elsewhere.
Abubakar is the Editor in chief at New Voices Magazine, junior editor at Poetry. Com and proudly a member of Hill-Top Creative Art foundation.
He was the winner of Splendor of Dawn poetry and short story competition (February-April edition, 2023) and finalist for the NSYTH Poetry and spoken word recitation.

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 11/10/21

November 11, 2021 James D. Casey IV

Accusing Wattage unrealized



Coastal obscenities blameless

recorded after testing bombs

                    shattered my toe

                    to the delight of

                    gopher paratroopers

 

How after flipping

            stripping

                        a blimp

kicked                         like

            a can of seedling

wrapping paper

 

I cut teeth braggadocio

through B&W filthy groceries

                                    shopping

                                    cart

                                    fountain

                        one PENNY

                            2 pennies     3

pennies inside/outside/

                                    dusted

                        trophy lighthouse

                        promissory

                                          NOTE

 

cappuccino absurdity

entwined in blips





Spinning in fashion chug choking plenty



If you missed the hip

            to shoulder hugging

                        devilled eggs

                        rotted / spotted /

            covered in carved

hamburger invisibility cloak

 

            Then you dropped bowels

            moving on freeway

                        resolved to toe jam

            footing the bill

                        until pills of

                        extravagance

                        instigate

                        castrated

                                    trash

 

Tho you squeeze crowning

wart grains of wheat

at least until

forgetting an

                        ANVIL

            squished as

many               collapsed

            VEINS as any troll

could sooth to

            cannibalize.



Nearsighted orangutan



Comedy that moans

                        in offensive glee

            b/c                   your

jelly belly Christmas

suicide appeared

as a suffocation

                        in my

            newsfeed

until pajamas

knew enough to

            engineer

a building

collapse crepuscular

moose song.

Joshua Martin is a Philadelphia-based writer and filmmaker, who currently works in a library. He is the author of the book Vagabond fragments of a hole (Schism Neuronics). He has had pieces previously published in M58, Punk Noir Magazine, Beir Bua, Scud, RIC Journal, Ink Pantry, Streetcake, The Collidescope, SORTES, Prolit, E-ratio, Nauseated Drive, and Fixator Press among others joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com