Why No Clichés (edit .001 paul)

[Erthona]

Why No Clichés
 
If you  use clichés
and refuse to stop,
you have no talent.
 
erthona
 
©2016

[billy]

new poet on site
wait for it, wait for it
what a lot of cliches

[Tiger the Lion]

Why No Clichés
 
If you  use clichés
and refuse to stop,
you are as much as admitting
you have no talent.
 
erthona
 
©2016

When I saw the thread title I was hoping for a full-length lecture. 
My question is, are there valid exceptions?
Paul

[Leanne]

Yes there are: to take the piss out of people who use cliches seriously.

[billy]

in a month of sundays maybe
or a blue moon
whenever you feel like it
or now and again
if you've a mind to

Why No Clichés
 
If you  use clichés
and refuse to stop,
you are as much as admitting
you have no talent.
 
erthona
 
©2016

When I saw the thread title I was hoping for a full-length lecture. 
My question is, are there valid exceptions?
Paul

[ellajam]

Ha, I speak in cliches all the time, they are a great way of bringing along a boatload in a few words, but when I'm am writing I want to offer the reader something more, something novel, something to turn over on the tongue and in the mind. It's fun to think past the common to the unknown and poetry readers like to think.

[Magpie]

As far as the eye can see
it's the blind leading the blind.
They're coming out of the closet 
dressed to kill!!!

[Achebe]

I would give an arm and a leg
to be rid once and for all
of cliches, bag and baggage.
But maybe at the end of the day
we revert to the mean
because it's the easy way out
and that's the elephant in the room.

[Tiger the Lion]

Apologies if I derailed your thread. As it is in a critical forum I have one thought below you might think about.

Why No Clichés
 
If you  use clichés
and refuse to stop,
you are as much as admitting you could strike "as much as" here. I think the tightness is worth the slight change of meaning. I dunno, sounds more firm to me.
you have no talent.
 
erthona
 
©2016

[ellajam]

Apologies if I derailed your thread. As it is in a critical forum I have one thought below you might think about.

Why No Clichés
 
If you  use clichés
and refuse to stop,
you are as much as admitting you could strike "as much as" here. I think the tightness is worth the slight change of meaning. I dunno, sounds more firm to me.
you have no talent.
 
erthona
 
©2016

Good crit, but if dale got a bug up his ass
it would be the pot calling the kettle black.

[Tiger the Lion]

Apologies if I derailed your thread. As it is in a critical forum I have one thought below you might think about.

Why No Clichés
 
If you  use clichés
and refuse to stop,
you are as much as admitting you could strike "as much as" here. I think the tightness is worth the slight change of meaning. I dunno, sounds more firm to me.
you have no talent.
 
erthona
 
©2016

Good crit, but if dale got a bug up his ass
it would be the pot calling the kettle black.

Noted.
I may have jumped from the frying pan into the fire,
but you've got to be cruel to be kind.

[ellajam]

Apologies if I derailed your thread. As it is in a critical forum I have one thought below you might think about.

Good crit, but if dale got a bug up his ass
it would be the pot calling the kettle black.

Noted.
I may have jumped from the frying pan into the fire,
but you've got to be cruel to be kind.

[QDeathstar]

I would give an arm and a leg
to be rid once and for all
of cliches, bag and baggage.
But maybe at the end of the day
we revert to the mean
because it's the easy way out
and that's the elephant in the room.

was thinking something simular

[Emz]

This thread reminds me of a song by Rise Against called "Broken English".

Lyrics: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/riseagain...glish.html