Yourself Metaphor Poems
These Yourself Metaphor poems are examples of Metaphor poems about Yourself. These are the best examples of Metaphor Yourself poems written by international poets.
BricksBrick by brick, I built this home,
each piece with purpose, in which it owns.
It was the hardest task I ever did face,
As I made sure...
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Categories:
confusion, extended metaphor, faith,
Accidental ShadeListen to me
You are giving your energy
Your time
Your focus
To someone
who would already be
The thing they are
If they ever were
And this does...
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Categories:
emotions, heartbreak, love, metaphor,
BlameIt simmers. This constant invisible, hovering
like a wasp in the forever periphery threatening
lightning strike yellows, sudden and unbidden. It spills
and spools, down into...
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Categories:
metaphor, analogy,
A Hunger Unfedfrom your first born, when you grab a dusting of talc, crushed with late night feeds, stirring in bouncing and stories on a knee,
adding a...
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Categories:
metaphor, analogy,
CleavingYou stripped the jungles of the world
You blew the hunting horn
You chased the beasts out of the field
You pricked the bloody thorn
You drove the leper...
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Categories:
cancer, metaphor, truth, war,
'Silly' Me“Life is too short to be serious all the time. So, if you can’t laugh at yourself, call me and I’ll laugh at you.” -...
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Categories:
metaphor, confidence, growing up, happiness,
The simplicity of yearningThe simplicity of yearning. It burns softly, like a hand grazing over a candle. A mouth full of sweet nothings to be spilled onto the...
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Categories:
metaphor, angst, change, conflict, dark,
Your Way Out is Through the Garden
seventeen years we went before I knew your friends
names you barely know now and you kept them
absent from me as you keep yourself still,...
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Categories:
age, extended metaphor,
Live In My Heart, Rent-Free
Live in my heart, rent-free
Now and forever...
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Categories:
analogy, encouraging, love, metaphor,
Oh black AfricanOh, you African!
Of cocoa skin and black-haired
Like your judgments
You African!
The lamb in the elections
Son of the people, wandering in the...
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Categories:
metaphor, 9th grade, abuse, africa,
naturally protective reflex
Mayonnaise in my mouth;
it was turkey—the first Pollack
I saw. His fault that the splatter
looked like a forgotten egg on...
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Categories:
allusion, extended metaphor, symbolism,
Honey, You Can't be a Shark if You're ToothlessYou're a fool for starting the friction
But I'm a fool for starting the motion
F you, no I’m a fool for believing the notion
And...
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Categories:
betrayal, extended metaphor, goodbye,
The ThunderCan you grasp the thunder?
Can you hide its flashes from an overflowing river?
Can you pay your river Life a hideous win?
Can you call yourself a...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, imagery, lust,
EyecandyI’m not afraid of rejection
I’m afraid of the phoenix that will rise from my spine with the threat of treason
Suppress the flame and...
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Categories:
anger, emotions, extended metaphor,
Kite-Surfer and Observer
Kite-Surfer prepares for his thrilling ride
With double-checked gear, wades into the tide
Observer sits noticing all that’s around
And sees the direction where’s Kite-Surfer’s bound
Like an outgoing...
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Categories:
metaphor, 9th grade, earth, endurance,