Famous Short Metaphor Poems

Famous Short Metaphor Poems. Short Metaphor Poetry by Famous Poets. A collection of the all-time best Metaphor short poems

A Sort Of A Song  

 Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.

—through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.

Compose.
 (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my flower that splits
the rocks.

November 6  

 Remember when Khrushchev said
"We will bury you!"
on the cover
of Time
I thought he was
employing a metaphor
as in "Braves Scalp Giants!"
on the back page
of the Daily News
I pictured the Russians
burying us under a mound
of all the rubble
that rubles could buy
when what he meant was
he had come not to praise Caesar
but to bury him

Roger Heston  

 Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I
Argue about the freedom of the will.

My favorite metaphor was Prickett's cow
Roped out to grass, and free you know as far
As the length of the rope.

One day while arguing so, watching the cow
Pull at the rope to get beyond the circle
Which she had eaten bare,
Out came the stake, and tossing up her head,
She ran for us.

"What's that, free-will or what?" said Ernest, running.

I fell just as she gored me to my death.

Here below, we are only the puppets with which the  

Here below, we are only the puppets with which the
Wheel of Heaven is amused. This is a truth and not a
metaphor. We are in fact the playthings upon this human
checkerboard, which finally we leave to enter one
by one the coffin of annihilation.