Cliché
Time rips ethics from these shrunken sockets:
rainbow slipped-tears bleed into tomorrow.
Eternity screams wracked infinity.
Stretch me through limits of wild-eyed cliché,
cover this skin with kisses; painful love.
Sighs wrap arms around folds of talk to me
as winds rip forever: blow casual thoughts-
confines of here I am: I give up now.
These esoteric secrets, dissolve me;
take them in the saliva of honour.
Walk in mind, across fractured; battered hills-
yesterdays: crawling, seething, tormenting
the shell that lets the masquerade flow smooth:
masterful; leave your cool footprints within.
Font size:
Submitted on September 23, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
- 27 sec read
- 0 Views
Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDECFGCBHIJK |
---|---|
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 583 |
Words | 92 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Translation
Find a translation for this poem in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Cliché" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 25 Apr. 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem/68198/cliché>.
Discuss the poem Cliché with the community...
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In