Seaberg Acrobatic Poetry - "Metaphors Are Dangerous"

Ronnog Seaberg reads her poem "Metaphors Are Danherous" while she and Steve Seaberg perform acrobatic illustrations to the poem. Cambridge Mass 1998.

METAPHORS ARE DANGEROUS

Metaphors are dangerous
They take over
and start to lead
their own lives.

I am a footless urn
filled with oil, blood or wine.
How artistic I am!
How finr!
I turn, I pour
the liquid my metaphor.

The metaphor is a danger
It walks - a lost stranger
into your bed and path,
cleanes itself in your bath,
starts a war
to defend a metaphor.

A wife turns unto a whore
what for?
She is merely a metaphor.
You can buy it in any store.
Not him, not you or she!
But the metaphor is me.

Wrapped in smoke
Head under hood
It is not a joke.
Barely understood
Stripes, bars, cross, hammer
or dragon -
it sails with any old flag on.

Ronnog Seaberg
3-27-1998

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Tags:

• poetry
• metaphors
• acrobatics

[bananlodor]

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[MrTerryKay]

The Seabergs were so so sweet in the films they did with J.B.Lenoir. They made me want to be there. I personally don't get the physically interpretations, but the poetry is as deep and beautiful as the ocean.

[dickdeluxe]

Great!