Metaphor Animal Poems
These Metaphor Animal poems are examples of Animal poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Animal Metaphor poems written by international poets.
ODE TO ELEPHANTODE TO ELEPHANT
Elephant Elephant
enveloping essence of Earth !
I hear an elevated...
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Categories:
animal, color, earth, extended
Hika BayHika Bay
Silent hawks appear
outside our window
two,then four,now six
form a floating dimond
A kettle of hawks roam high
on ancient air
sent by first peoples
to remind us
We dont...
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Categories:
animal, appreciation, bird, environment,
Interview OverheardI hear them talking as I open my eyes,
a hazy something lingers on my lips like lava,
threatening to erupt. I hear question then...
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Categories:
analogy, animal,
The FishLaughter trills through fire
Joy is spun on a lyre
Feathers were just growing in
And the bird watched its kin
Playing, scratching, screaming
I want to play!
You're on fire!
Thats...
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Categories:
anger, animal, bullying, depression,
eelsLet’s be eels,
Let slip into their hands,
Let’s be eels,
Let’s explore the rivers
Before they catch us,
They’re waiting for us downstream,
To hurt us,
We are eels,
We know...
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Categories:
animal, metaphor,
EagleEagle
by Lanier Thomas
Safely soaring above the sky
The eagle continues to fly.
On stately wings that glide on air
Like drifting dreams without despair.
Onward over the horizon it...
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Categories:
animal, beauty, freedom, happiness,
Committee of VulturesCommittee of Vultures
There they sit squabbling
Up in a tree or on the ground
Waiting greedily for the next carcass
Laughing, they don’t care how it got dead
Always...
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Categories:
animal, bird, character, humanity,
If it wasn't for poetry
"Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it." Quote By Rumi
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Categories:
animal, appreciation, inspirational, poetry,
Ante-Meridian Verses on a Sleepless NightIn what to me now seems like ages
I've only read some sundry pages;
Lord Byron, a Romantic poet,
was a dark wit; you'd just know it.
But...
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Categories:
allusion, animal, garden, metaphor,
A Cornered RatA Cornered Rat
No matter what the enemy’s might.
The smallest of beasts will stand and fight.
Whether a cat or a mighty bear.
Confront him only if you...
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Categories:
animal, cat, conflict, dark,
Greenling Elegy - Revision
clouded omens across code
the objective fact of the atmosphere here
starves even the most modest
ambitions of fish outside their home waters
journey of yearning mundane
day-glow gradients of...
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Categories:
animal, betrayal, death, extended
PantherAn isolated silhouette grows
amongst cowering greens as
an aimless impression yonder
trace mimicking lifeless postures.
Outlines vanish from the capture
as that raises a different outcome,
yet the instinctive...
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Categories:
allusion, animal, environment, extended
Dead Rat In the Roaddead rat in the road
flat rat in the road
as if placed without gore
more like a small fur rug
than a rodent
as it ran to its conclusion
not...
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Categories:
animal, death, deep, mental
The SpiderIn the hushed embrace of night, a weaver emerges from the shadows.
With delicate grace, it spins threads of lunar albedo into a tapestry,
a silent symphony...
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Categories:
analogy, animal, confidence, extended
Living Among Ferocious AnimalsHaving to undertake my journey through life
I face unusual situations...This time with animals...
...
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Categories:
adventure, allegory, animal, appreciation,