We learned about Archetypes in Psychology.
Here's a draft poem, about archetypes.
Archetypes
Quasi-living entities existing in our collective stream of consciousness
like, the archetype of the child god
or like the archetype of the disapproving father
like the archetype of the woman
wondrous in beauty
or perhaps the archetype of the man who falls for her
the archetype of the kingdom besieged by war
like the archetype of relinquishing the crown
or perhaps of the bended knee
the archetype of the scars left by fingernails
similar to the archetype of knife wounds
of late-night whiskey
of pickaxes, pikes and pistols
of falling fire, burning brandy
of turpentine, arsenic, bleach and chlorine
Recurring images within our ancestral unconscious past
like the archetype of the god who dies for your sins
and of salvation, only for a few
Something something repeating of the "of," just kidding, it is perfectly fine. Might try this though: go ahead and read it out to yourself, once with the "of" and once without. Which sounds better to you? That is your poem.
ReplyDeleteI think it works because you have the constant repetition of the "like" and the "of," and not just a single repeating word.