Tag: Analogy

• Wait… Did I order my life from Temu?

  

  I wrote a poem about 12 years ago called ‘This Ain’t It‘ – It was a very short poem and, truthfully, an incomplete thought. My life felt wrong… but I couldn’t articulate it very well at the time. This is a more thought-out interpretation of how I felt then (and still feel now in all…

  Serena Malcolm

  1 June, 2025

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  Analogy, dreams, life, poem, poetry, ugly truth

• The Lion’s Share

  

  Camel aside, the straw that broke the lion’s back was not in fact a straw at all, but the utter gall of the Pride arriving after the fall, Her cry was guttural and yet they stalled, But had they been there still – had that been their will – curiosity may not have lured this…

  Serena Malcolm

  11 January, 2020

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  alone, Analogy, death, family, friends, hardship, isolation, life, lion, loneliness, metaphor, poem, poet, poetry, pride, story, struggle

• Pachyderm Fight Club

  

  Sharing something a little different today: It shouldn’t really come as a surprise to anyone who knows me, but there is an elephant in the room. An enormous, fuck-off elephant, and nobody is talking about it. Seriously?! It’s like Pachyderm Fight Club. First rule of Pachyderm Fight Club? Well, you know. This particular elephant is…

  Serena Malcolm

  7 January, 2020

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  alone, Analogy, depression, elephant in the room, fear, ignorance, mental health, mental illness, mental wellbeing, metaphor, mind, prose, taboo

• Sleeping Bear

  

  I am a sleeping bear with the richest hide of tan, Try and wake me if you dare, But none too many can. You can poke and you can tease; I may grumble, I may moan, But in a deep passivity I have made my humble home. A bear unlike my kin, Yes indeed I…

  Serena Malcolm

  30 October, 2015

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  Analogy, Bear, Breaking point, Buttons, Don’t poke the bear, emotions, feelings, lessons, Limits, metaphors, poem, poetry