Metaphor Analogy Poems

She is a Pacific ocean 
Tranquil from outside
tumultuous from with in
 
         Shallow it seems from the...

Read More

painted flowers on the wall, doesn't need sun dirt water  to grow...

4/21/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2024...

Read More

I stand with a treasure map,
no X to mark the spot.
A scattering of clues,
roadmaps of endless dots.

Your name is on an envelope,
surely that’s proof enough?
But...

Read More

Everyone has a story
We’re all unwritten books
Some of us have the same chapters

for what it's worth
we are all unread open books-

Yet different sentences pages and...

Read More

In a realm where feuds festered, fierce and free,
Two clans clashed, Kovacs and Petrovics, starkly set.
Amidst the mountains, a tale of sorrow spun,
Where bloodied bonds...

Read More

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...

Read More

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...

Read More

The beauty of blossoming flower,
exudes from the charismatic core 
of the unfurling buds 
with the fervent fragrance 
of rippling shower of the spring colors,
trails the...

Read More

Springtime facade shines 
in embellished topography,
embroidered enshrined on
Monet landscape, 
      luminous 
in effervescent elegance
with sparkle of blue lagoon 
in dreaming...

Read More

It 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...

Read More

from 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...

Read More

Poetry is like medication, in each release of expression,
there is healing - Poet.

In the realms of lost childhoods,
where demons prey upon the defenceless -
no one...

Read More

I hear them talking as I open my eyes, 
a hazy something lingers on my lips like lava, 
threatening to erupt. I hear question then...

Read More

Time passes, conversation and music ends,
light refracts, shimmers in water, bends.
Nails grow, hair lengthens, heads turn and bones break,
stems wilt, gardens overgrow, clouds regurgitate water...

Read More

There sits the City Gold
Where robbers ne'er grab hold,
Nor rot, nor moth, nor mold.

There sits a lava moat
Not passable by boat
Nor rope, nor writ, nor...

Read More