Like the moon, you said
about me
without giving it context, and I
too wary to probe, started to wonder
to wander between different
reasons;
was it my coldness as snow?
or was it because
I was only a mirror reflecting
the light from someone brighter than me?
, or was it simply because of me going bald?
and I wondered until
you told me much later,
it was simply her way of giving affection
which was the context
I clearly had missed.
Paul Klee
Dora asks us to use the device of a simile today at dVerse, and I went for the case when a simile is misunderstood.
February 3, 2026
Björn Rudbergs writings 
The Case of the Misunderstood Simile, indeed, and the fine art of unraveling it to a satisfying end. In the meantime, you give us the humor and the smile we are craving in the mystery. I love it.
Thank you… poetry maybe dangerous… likened to a rose I may think about thorns ;.-)
Oh, to be likened to the moon, Björn! I love the thought of being ‘a mirror reflecting the light from someone brighter than me’. And then you made me chuckle at being compared to the moon simply because of going bald!
Having a moon is actually something you say about bald men in Swedish.
Ah! I understand! My husband is bald and calls himself a slaphead!
You should remind him of the moon… I remember an old comic with a couple standing in moonlight: He says dreamily: do you see the moon my dear, and she answers…. Yes of course, put on your hat.
LOL
When I was little and had a bare bottom after a bath my grandmother called it the full moon of Brighton.
BRAVO!Nice one
much love
i have missed the context of many things. a friend once said to me a closed mouth gathers no feet it took a few years to work out what he meant.