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Best Simile Poems

Below are the all-time best Simile poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of simile poems written by PoetrySoup members

Like a Book

He read her like a book 
as her wistful words poured forth
from deep within the pages
of her tender seeking soul.

He lay mesmerized 
as her paragraphs...

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Categories: books, love, sensual, simile,
Form: Free verse

Poetry For Poets: I Own This- Edition

Well hopefully you've read the last "Poetry for Poets", now here's the one I wanted to write, enjoy...

POETRY FOR POETS 
(I own this- edition)

Poems
more organic...

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Categories: simile, creation, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse

A Tree Is Like a Blank Book

A Tree is Like a Blank Book

A tree is like a blank book
that nature writes her seasons on 
In Winter black branches woebegone
With snow and...

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Categories: change, nature, simile,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

A Mental Picture of Wisdom

If wisdom was a picture, how beautiful she’d be.
Words melting into hues, in perfect harmony.
Truth revealed for all to see in reflective symmetry.
Like rhythmic waves...

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Categories: simile, beautiful, imagery, metaphor, sea,
Form: Monorhyme

Our World Changing, Not For the Better - Potd

It's not hard to see or tell this world of ours 
Isn't the same as it used to be. Granted, it has 
Never been perfect,...

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Categories: simile, anger, emotions, life, political,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Haiku Triad

Monitoring self,
nature made her decisions:
disaster rained down…

The water rose—
Life sank beneath the level;
hope floated above…

Like Noah, we wait…
flooding water standing still—
Vultures roost on wires....

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Categories: simile, analogy, imagery, metaphor, nature,
Form: Haiku

Composing Poetry

My thoughts like wafts of vapors, 
                  ...

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Categories: passion, simile, writing,
Form: Rhyme

The Statue

A hand of fine art
carving impressions of heart
beauty to embalm.
A creation glorified
inspiring while life denied....

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Categories: simile, art, inspiration, pain, poetess,
Form: Tanka

As Fresh As a Daisy

In my meadow the scent of spring ripples in air, 
I see the dance of patina on dainty petals of daisy, 
unfurling with the touch...

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Categories: analogy, beauty, flower, simile,
Form: Free verse

What It Isn'T

it isn't what it is
it is what it isn't

a window               ...

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Categories: metaphor, simile, surreal, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme

We Wait For Thee


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Categories: jesus, marriage, simile,
Form: Rhyme

- Letter To My Sweetheart -

With you in my life

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Categories: husband, kiss, love, simile,
Form: Rhyme

Love In My Veins

Your love flows through my veins
like the Nile River flows through
the sands of Eygpt.
Love flows through my veins
like rivers that break off into endless streams
and...

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Categories: simile, beautiful, feelings, for her,
Form: Romanticism

Flowers

Like drops of paint on a painter’s easel
Resting quietly, patiently among others
To gently decorate the canvas;

Like soft silk folds of a lady’s dress
Pooling out, freshly...

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Categories: flower, simile,
Form: I do not know?

My Only Flame

My Only Flame

Love, like fire, is all-consuming,
And forever should be blooming.
Endless courtship is not a game.
As we watch each year’s seasons turn,
My torch for you...

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Categories: simile, fire, flower, love, marriage,
Form: Rhyme