Soup Fork at the Banquet of Verbs
thoughtco Soup Fork at the Banquet of Verbs Knife to a gunfight of conjunctions All frosting, no cake Herding cats through a thesaurus Cart before the horse, horse on sabbatical Dancing about architecture in lead boots Shadowboxing with syntax Gold leaf on a cardboard crown Stitching time's ankles together Painting by numbers with invisible paint One hand tied behind the metaphor Both feet in the punchline Tongue in cheek, cheek in flame Whistling past the graveyard of grammar Juggling chainsaws in oven mitts Beating a dead cliché back to life Soup fork at a banquet of verbs Smoke signals in a hurricane A compass allergic to north All hat, no cattle The emperor’s new enjambment A bad idea in a borrowed tuxedo ----- Shared with DVerse Poets Pub trying to turn a phrase. ©2026 Christopher Reilley I would love to know what you thought about this piece. Please consider leaving a comment.
