TALKING ABOUT LOVE
Sweet is the impulse of love,
the fundamental reason for life...
Dreams of love,
shine in the light of the stars,
adorn the illuminated sky,
with immeasurable divine splendor...
When loving hearts,
beat in the same rhythm,
peace falls asleep peacefully,
life becomes beautiful and shines
the earth breathes pure air...
When true love happens
living is a gigantic...
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Categories:
metaphor, addiction, allusion, beauty, extended
Form: Carpe Diem
NATURAL POETRY
summer peaks are coming
cicadas are singing za, zi zi, zi...!
How many whispers of time,
flower, fire, rain, cold...
earthly dreams in cycles...!
New shoots on the earth,
renewal crying out,
herald birds chirping!
Leaves swirling in the wind,
mushrooms everywhere,
autumn showing off...
Life is full of thorns,
but also full of flowers,
knowing how to live is necessary...!...
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Categories:
allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Couplet
Foothold on the sunMy heart sings as I walk on springs,
With foothold on the sun, unburned.
Your love fills my heart, my soul,
My whole being.
I swim in love –
I fly without wings.
Joy clings to my feet,
Gratitude fills my mouth.
So I sing, I dance in the air,
My claps echo with harmony.
Happiness knows no rival
Since you arrived with your love.
Your touch...
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Categories:
metaphor, feelings, funny love, love,
Form: Free verse
Palace visitA pretty big gate it was...
Overseeing the strict soldiers at the entrance.
Firmly, they stood with heavy weapons.
Stepped inside the picturesque place,
Gentle girls welcomed with grace.
A beautiful big lawn,
Guarded by patient pawns,
Ample aesthetic rooms around,
Occupied by pretty people abound.
Classical songs were playing on one side,
Dancers accompanied them the other side.
People indulged in their adorable arts,
Celebrating...
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Categories:
dream, extended metaphor, fairy,
Form: Free verse
Hi, It's Me
For the story
I would ruin it—
just to write it.
I'd be ruthless,
less private, shape up
my front porch,
sharpen these claws
on concrete
images—
metaphorically speaking
imagine
how to re-frame
bad guys,
wrench in a plot twist,
unmask villains' masquerading
makeup—
maybe even
find
myself....
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Categories:
hyperbole, identity, metaphor, writing,
Form: Free verse
TODAY'S POTUS' RED LAVATODAY’S POTUS’ RED LARVA
Making The Nation
Great Again, he’s erupting
Our democracy:
Oppressive lava flowing
Hot power-mongering blood:-
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Categories:
metaphor, america, corruption, discrimination, grief,
Form: Tanka
When Time Slips AwaySo little time—
Yet so much left undone!
On the pages of life still remain
Sketches of dreams left to run.
So many promises lost in the mist,
So many hopes quietly withdrew—
Countless paths remain untraveled,
So many sights left out of view.
What still remains—
To behold the world with wide-open eyes,
To truly live...
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Categories:
metaphor, books, dream, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
When Time Slips AwaySo little time—
Yet so much left undone!
On the pages of life still remain
Sketches of dreams left to run.
So many promises lost in the mist,
So many hopes quietly withdrew—
Countless paths remain untraveled,
So many sights left out of view.
What still remains—
To behold the world with wide-open eyes,
To truly live...
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Categories:
metaphor, books, dream, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
When Its Petals Draw Near
A missile’s disguise is a flower
magnetic, a whiff of its power
Yet when its petals draw near
a new odor appears
...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, fear, flower,
Form: Rhyme
In Poetic Relief
IN POETIC RELIEF
Laying here musing,
I feel as if an ice cube
Peeing in warm thoughts:
My poetic cistern filled,
I now pour out this to you:-
...
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Categories:
allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Tanka
The Body of the Text
I said just breathe in, uncompress your lungs—
re-tongue a kindness
in through mouth—now, hold your death.
Pen's pulses, still, stand witness.
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Categories:
appreciation, heart, language, metaphor,
Form: Englyn
PREGNANT MEMORIESPREGNANT MEMORIES
The love we shortly shared,
Was as the sunlight of life,
Fueling and energizing souls
With unimaginable pleasure:-
We met, touched, and loved,
In that moment, we were one.
But as time faded, we melted,
Flowing away from each other:-
Now, in the quiet of night,
In the castle of my heart,
And in the temple of my mind,
Thoughts penetrate the distance:-
Indeed, each...
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Categories:
metaphor, allegory, break up, extended
Form: Prose
OF ME
Categories:
metaphor, analogy, encouraging, i am,
Form: Couplet
SUMMER RAINSUMMER RAIN
God cried today
His tears fertilizing
The womb of
Mother Earth:
The wet smell
Of nature’s essence
Saturated the air
As moist breeze blew
Breath of new life
Into dried hopes
Wilted in despair:-
The rainy season
Of life has begun:
Maybe love’s peace
Will hollow her footprints
In the canvassing mud:-
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Categories:
allegory, extended metaphor, high
Form: Prose
You are a Metaphoryou are a gentle breeze
a cocktail with antifreeze
an approaching sneeze
or a winter storm
three standard deviations from the norm
four sheets to the wind
and I think your rook is pinned
are you a ghostly mist
or a clenched fist?
I know you are a metaphor
I don't know what for...
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Categories:
metaphor, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Metaphor Poems
Read wonderful metaphor poetry on the following sub-topics:
animal, family, friends, football, kids, lion, love, loneliness, moon, nature, yourself
and more.
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Poems Related to Metaphor
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