Writing practice: single lines of iambic pentameter using metaphors as best you can
[there’s a line in King Lear, “Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides”, by Cordelia. just beautiful use of metaphor. anyway, that’s the model of perfection]
Truth shall unstitch what threaded lies have sewn
[ok, a total takeoff, but that’s ok. just run with it]
Truth needs no lies while lies are built on truth
[just keep going]
I dip, no wade, no plunge in warm revenge
[whatever. do this 5000 times and you’ll start getting good]
When blinded by revenge I best smell fear
He honed his cheetah thoughts on prey revenge
[whatever, just have fun with it]
Baptized to life from death at Chateau d’If
Unborrowed thoughts are grown from toughest earth
Our wintered hopes grow weeds with Spring’s advance
[well, decent try for a first day]