metaphor is just one of many poetic devices, you don't have to use them all. simile, assonance, consonance,
you must have an imagination?
do you think Shelley actually new a Frankenstein? or Rossetti a goblin market? it's not the world that's your oyster, it's your mind. use some of poetry's rules mix with some imagination, add a splash of reality and you have a good poem/book/painting etc. write a poem about an apple, how mundane is that, some people have wrote books about it that weren't mundane at all. write about your club foot, ..what's that, you don't have a club foot? your imagination does.
you must have an imagination?
do you think Shelley actually new a Frankenstein? or Rossetti a goblin market? it's not the world that's your oyster, it's your mind. use some of poetry's rules mix with some imagination, add a splash of reality and you have a good poem/book/painting etc. write a poem about an apple, how mundane is that, some people have wrote books about it that weren't mundane at all. write about your club foot, ..what's that, you don't have a club foot? your imagination does.