The Poet’s Circle on Zoom
Way back when, in the time before Covid,
the Poet’s Circle would meet once a month
at The Post-Coital Beetle
for an evening of mixing metaphors.
Last week after much discussion
we had our first session on Zoom
and I don’t mind telling you
it was a white horse of a different kettle
a whole other crap shoot.
There were problems of course,
some of our members
had difficulties with the technology
and that was just the tip of the molehill,
as one of the poets observed
you can lead a leopard to water
but you can’t make him change his tricks;
but when The Academic Poet suggested
that metaphor has no place in modern poetry
that was when the spittle really hit the screen
it all went to hell in a hand basket
and that’s an idiom not a metaphor.
I tried to cool things down with a joke
but as they say
don’t bring a pun to a bun fight
and there’s no point
trying to count the pigeons
when the barn door is open
and the cat has bolted from the bag.
Taking part in Open Link Weekend over at earthweal
Stopdraggingthepanda 
I loved this so much! I was dragged kicking and screaming into the world of zoom by my local writers’ group………….oh, my. It IS a whole nuther animal! And we can catch facial expressions we might otherwise miss entirely, not always a good thing. I read this with the biggest grin.
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Ah yes, there is too much feed back in the world of Zoom!
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😂 it sounds wild! Imagine if it had been an in-person meeting…
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See now, that’s what you get for trying to get the cat in a bag in the first place.
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The only thing harder is trying to get the elephant into the room!
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How is it that I never thought of that?
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The mad reality of your poems always makes me smile and chuckle, Jim. I would give anything for a half of shandy and a packet of mixed metaphors at The Post-Coital Beetle! On-line meetings can be tricky – and hilarious!
I must remember ‘don’t bring a pun to a bun fight’.
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The indignation of trivialities. (K)
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Your poem really captures the hazards of zoom meetings. I loved your funny phrasing and the way the poem rolls along. I’m still chuckling.
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Thanks Suzanne!
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Your poem really captures the hazards of zoom meetings. I loved your funny phrasing and the way the poem rolls along. I’m still chuckling.
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As usual the energy and inventiveness of your poems grab me! More, more!
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Thanks Kim and thanks for the reblog!
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You’re welcome!
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Reblogged this on The Cheesesellers Wife and commented:
Another great poem from Jim Feeney at Stopdraggingthepanda. Enjoy!
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What a play on words. Zoom can pass on by as quickly as it came. What happened to stop and smell the roses?
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The only thing worse than zoom for poetry is mixed metaphors.
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The perfect storm!
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🙂
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Thanks, and I’ll be sure to set my pun on stun. – Brendan
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