My New Year Wish!

A very Happy, Blessed and Blissful New Year to all my fellow bloggers! 2017 was a year of self-discovery for me. I questioned the purpose of my existence and the meaning of life. Not that I got all the answers but I learned to live above my failures and regrets in life. I learned the … Read more

A Book Is A Child

This poem is based on a prompt that requires “conceit”  to be used as a poetic tool. A poetic conceit is often an unconventional, logically complex, or surprising metaphor whose delights are more intellectual than sensual. In metaphor, we try to bring out similarity between two very different things. A conceit is like an extended metaphor where the two objects are absolutely and completely different. 

I have tried to bring this out in this poem by using ‘a book’ and ‘an orphan child’ as two objects of comparison.

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