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Analogy Poems | Examples of Analogy Poetry

Analogy Poems - Examples of all types of analogy poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for analogy.
Premium Member Delusion
The assigned unseen lamp hidden somewhere, someone kindles for you when you’re made to arrive. Unperceived, it creates reflective beam of contemplation, illumines the pathway of your destined journey. The free will you make as the mental mural...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Taking The Guesswork Out Of Promise
My candle said to me soon I will rest for giving you my best as I have melted my girth as the wick wanes in my worth I will flick away my ember and lastly, remember the time when you light up my life...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, appreciation, imagery, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member odic fail
hope … dismay heaven, hell gods, mortality … love all live within us we create our own realities and we dwell there … oh, we are taught the tools for life - the skills we use to SHAPE that actuality, but we construct it...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, break up, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member implement
* Artists of every kind, I believe, are but tools for something far grander … what that is, I’ll leave to the philosophers. * ~ bend … your voice to...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, art, creation, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member how paints a poet?
(inhale) aim, undetermined ... what purpose do I serve? what is poetry’s primal essence?!? my words only cover pages that ghost the spaces of better intention ... that garland upon my brow bleeds 'neath the clawing shadows of naked branches, thorns twisted and braided with the lightness...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, appreciation, beauty, death,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member the good fight
* death is a process of many stages, and dementia can be one of the ugliest … Dad taught me many lessons in life, and he fought to the last to retain what sensibilities he...Read the rest...
Categories: age, analogy, father son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Shot The Sheriff: Parody
'Here-comes-The-She--riff'/'And-his-second-trusted-Deputy' 'They-chea-ted-and-were-shot-de--ead'/'By-the-new-Ma-yo--or'/ 'Bob-Mar-ley' 'If-their-left-foot-takes-an-in--nch'/'And-their-right-foot-takes-a-lengthier-mile' 'Hand-law-a-forty-fi--ive'/'And-make-that-bestnerd-hop-with-a-smile' 'Your-dancing-half-you-spun-le--eft'/'You-alone-with-Suave-south-for-a-drive' 'Not-as-Missing-Per--sons'/'Posters-as-being-Wan-ted-Dead-or-Alive' 'Your-thrones-King's-and-Que--een's'/'The-Court-Jester-made-his-sweet-sixteen' 'Queen-is-expec-ti--ing'/'King's-glad-Jester-fa-ces-le-Guil-lo-tine' 'Judges-and-Ju--dy's'/'This-here-courtroom-is-in-repossession' 'Gavels-get-rea--dy'/'And-assault-with-deadly-precision' 'Guilty-as-cha--arged'/'Throw-the-book-at-um-as-they-cry-out-ouch!' 'Innocent-is-set-fre--ee'/'After-those-they-accused-gouged-their-eyes-out!' 'Kamala-is-the-fel--la'/'Lady-Justice-like-the-blindfolders-spawn' 'The-Justices-all-wa--atched'/'As-U.-S.-Constitution-burned-on-the-lawn' 'Pu-tin's-confus--sion'/'Non-goes-front-or-back-of-fic--ti--on' 'Tales-from-Tsar's-wo--ods'/'Rasputin-Myname-front- or-back-a-muse' 'Biden-casta--Net's'/'And-Yahoo's-all-over-Is-ra-el' 'Joe-cuts-China-tea--time'/'Pekoe-dives-inside-Starbuck's-swimming-pool'...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, appreciation, humorous, irony,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member UNMENTIONABLES
In this life you have to be prepared for unmentionables, don't pretend they don't exist, can't have daisies, sunshine all the time, my imagination or is it a female problem? Guys are tough, don't care, poet plays to...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, change, sensual,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Delusion
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion - Jim Rohn Without meaning, your mind may portray delusion, so some search for answers to end this illusion. Is it that simple to cleanse a life from confusion? When...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, philosophy, truth,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Divine Magnetism
In the live network of intricate unassailable design, invisible layer on imperceptible layer, the latticed mind is stratified. On spiritual strata the devout strands align with the innate awareness, sublime sagacious patterns of pious perception are unified. Many existential attributes...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Power of Words
Written: May 10, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cosmic candor will be suitable beyond our sight, providing...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hawaii Scents Her Greetings
Afar off as Luna disturbs the briny sea air, its pallid lips farewell kiss of former throne fairs to absence. Heir apparent solace a crown restored as its Hymn privilege rejuvenates Sol's nurtured Hawaiian Isles. As...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Behind the wall
The coffee shops stand by the canal Beautiful scenery and in flannels All spruced up to put on the show How wealthy they are we don't need to know Behind the wall is a back street ginnel With bins and...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, discrimination, drink, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vertical Horizontal righteous in Him-
As I lay dormant I stand raised in the midst of my vertical I lay horizontal yet I rise beneath myself so I stand Amongst my inner man a sinner man I stand and walk, I am...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, desire, forgiveness, god,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member A fly lights on me- shoo fly
late spring so I spy a fly goes by he wheezing buzzing in mine ear ~ so I swat at him and then say hey what's up, yo me don't stink what's up ~ buzzing in mine ear no stinky here...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, how i feel,
Form: Haiku

Specific Types of Analogy Poems

Definition | What is Analogy in Poetry?


Book: Shattered Sighs