Soup Fork at the Banquet of Verbs

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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

Herding cats through a thesaurus

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

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Shared with DVerse Poets Pub trying to turn a phrase.

©2026 Christopher Reilley 

 

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