Yerka Yacek. Between Heaven and Hell |
This was going to be a tough one,
The place was alive with allegories,
A miasma of metaphors,
Where the artist had dipped his brush
in his soul, and drawn an analogy.
The similes were stacked as high,
As an elephant’s eye,
There was a suspension of disbelief
on the table, and enjambment oozed
from broken jars. A caesura put a stop to that.
Every surface was crawling with hyperbole,
Could he clear the clutter of rhetoric?
Gain a victory for verisimilitude?
He rolled up his sleeves, kicked the cat,
and swore to conquer Hell’s Kitchen.
©Marilyn Brindley
Kitchen Nightmares and Hell's Kitchen are of course, both T.V. programmes, shown in the U.K. and The U.S.A. The star was Gordon Ramsay, who would think nothing of swearing and 'kicking the cat' (1) to achieve a result. My nephew's newly acquired restaurant was the subject of a programme in the first series of Kitchen Nightmares; Gordon came in and acted as troubleshooter for my nephew and his partner. It was great entertainment and Gordon, by all accounts was a thoroughly nice guy. He hardly swore at all!
Tess Kincaid at The Mag gave us the picture as a prompt, and this was my response. Why not venture over there and see what other hellish scenes (or heavenly delights) it conjured up for other poets and writers. Or perhaps they found something in between the two.
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul,
and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
Allegories and metaphors and analogies - similes and hyperbole and verisimilitude ~~~ OH MY!!
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ReplyDeleteI'm with Helen! Oh my is right!
ReplyDeleteTotally brilliant poet's Mag! :)
ReplyDeleteThe image speaks for the poet....or the poet speaks in images.
ReplyDeleteThat kitchen is where Hell is for me! Great stuff.
ReplyDeleteGreat poem! And how cool to have Ramsay's help for your nephew! My hubby never misses a show - repeats or not!
ReplyDeleteCleverly concocted and served in style. My compliments to the chef!
ReplyDeleteVery active response- pinch the cat I say- clear the counters indeed! thanks!
ReplyDeleteVery clever connection to something familiar on TV! Nicely Nell!
ReplyDeleteHank
Yup, that keeps everyone on their toes.
ReplyDeleteWhere the artist had dipped his brush
in his soul, and drawn an analogy.
Love it.
A recipe to my taste...what would Julia say?
ReplyDeleteYour right Nell , there is a lot going on , but i think you enscapulated it nicely . It reminds me of the flight deck of an interstellar space ship , lodged deep in some wormhole in hyper space during a voyage lasting many generations . Cheers
ReplyDeletePlease pass the linguistic Alfredo and the fig(urative) jam!
ReplyDeleteA veritable hotbed of poetic artistical! Love it...
ReplyDeleteLoved all of the creative references to writing in this. A whole lot of mixed verbiage being whipped up in this kitchen, I think! Very cleverly penned. Nice to see where the inspiration took you this week!
ReplyDeleteLove that oozing enjambment...
ReplyDeleteOh my the lexicon used - leaves me little 'Aussie' housewife quaking in her moccasins!
ReplyDeleteWonderful!