Metaphor Simile Poems

Watch out! 
She plays the seduction game 
too well, my friend.
Be careful now! 
Just the flick of her eyelid
hypnotizes 
benighted meek men.
Her come-hither wink,
enough to...

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I worry that my coat will murder me.
Hanging on Banister’s Edge it’s a man lurking, dark.

I’ve seen rows of killers shadowed and waiting,
hidden in the...

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He sleeps like a koala from seven to eleven.
While I'm here simply left waiting and wondering just when
Is the specific time that I can even...

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- in those moments, it shines.
The nostalgia of an upside down
world glinting up through hourglasses of years,
a mark impressed upon flesh; a scar harbouring
simple childhood...

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In your silence I see colours,
speech crumbling like flaking paint, dried; truth dripping from lips, black spittle on a brush.
In the silence I inhale the...

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Aged man walks on the busy street
Beyond his ability to cross
Cane in hand, old friends he needs to meet
Delayed by rain, worried about loss

Earlier, he...

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Watching the snowflakes 
Gently glide through the chilly air 
Watching the snowflakes 
Slowly combine and fall together 

This one snowflake flew into my hands
It melted...

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_LIKE KOALA'S
Like Dophins,
Always sleep with half of your brain,
Glowering at nature’s grain,
You may be a koala for all fins,
For this arduous moments;
Will tell in the...

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Our
              Hawaiian Sun
        got burned
...

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 If love is a gamble,
I wouldn't shy away to risk shedding
yellowing pages of my soul,
to grow souvenir sunflowers in your yearning soul.
As I can't...

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Though time, like us, is separated
Into many hours and minutes,
Even our arms, like clock hands,
Will someday meet again....

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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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clash of egos,
differences 
of perspectives 
stalls fluidity.
a partnership dissolves 
ideas 
once a mountain stream 
flowing 
seamlessly,
now a trickle;
static electricity.
synergy,
at rest;
in a state of stagnation.
they've assumed...

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I do not usually write complex poems, but upon writing the first stanza I decided to continue.

A deathly treasure,
A ruby dove
Soaring with pleasure
Against the pearl...

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Now tell me that you've felt a failure
In doing what was right
As salted pillows dampen
In the dead of sleepless night
A wonder, wonders bless the wicked
And...

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