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# The Allure of Cliché: A Sonnet
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/allure-of-cliche-sonnet/
- Published: 2024-06-22T16:52:07.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-18T20:59:13.000Z
- Description: Neither the moon nor stars alone allure. Celestial lips may good metaphors make, yet we can’t long mere metaphor endure: we seek cliché for companionship's shake.
- Author: Andy
- Tags: poetry, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

Neither the moon nor stars alone allure.  
Celestial lips may good metaphors make,  
yet we can’t long mere metaphor endure:  
we seek cliché for companionship's sake.

Were this duvet draped over you and I  
I’d have no need to exercise my mind,  
for it’s the body not the mind that dies.  
If only I could the perfect words find

I might countenance life's great solitude:  
hard as love may be, it is harder to write.  
Still I write you into my arms, O crude  
reprieve from those interminable nights

which beckon their own alluring relief!  
What does the drowning man desire most?  
Are we not all drowning in quiet grief  
like shipwrecks ever-longing for the coast?

*I long for you* is no dreadful cliché:  
all poems fail; all vessels sail away.