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.
Nocturnal
a hibernating bear
in the dead of winter
during the day,
...
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Categories:
animal, day, metaphor, nature,
Ryley Rhino Nursery Rhyme
I ride on Ryley Rhino
as down the river we go.
He knows things I want to know.
I said, “There’s a flashy fish!
Watch it swirl and...
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Categories:
1st grade, animal, cute,
VICTIM HUNTERA hunter on hunting field
Hunting dengerous animals.
Trapping their ways
And hid behind a baobab tree.
A Clever leopard found out the traps
And hid on the...
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Categories:
animal, death of a
DogsThe feeling is neutral if not numb;
to the fact that most dogs are now rather dumb.
They waddle and limp to whoever has food,
regardless of thought...
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Categories:
addiction, animal, dog, drug,
Villanelle the FoalVillanelle the Foal
A gripping dance
(12 men lift a rigid horse onto a pick-up truck).
I drive gate-wide
in the Volvo
(Mummy, what are they doing with...
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Categories:
africa, allegory, animal, appreciation,
ANIMALS
Animals have something magical !
they are faithful as we are not...
They are honest as few
men are, and teach us...!
They are libels against corruption
and they...
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Categories:
allusion, analogy, animal, appreciation,
OUR LOVE AFFAIR
The bristle of our skins,
the taste of the mouth,
the awakening of the smell,
the anticipation of pleasure
are precipitated forms
of harmonious coexistence
between the pure amalgam
and body vibration.
...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, analogy, animal,
canis lupus
~ for Ana ~
I was there many times -
I’d been watching him for years,
(he, black as coal),
almost two decades now,
an extraordinary age for a wolf...
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Categories:
animal, metaphor, nature,
The Luck of a RavenOh the raven that flies in the skies above.
While we all stand down here adoring the doves.
Only thinking of a raven as death and ill.
But...
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Categories:
9th grade, animal, bird,
- Illogical -
Capture the moments that will never come back
...
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Categories:
animal, metaphor, nature,
AN ALLEGORICAL COCOON LESSON: Apropos Of Polling AN ALLEGORICAL COCOON LESSON
(APROPOS OF POLLING)
In preparation, ants are moulding
And stacking their mounds; in hives,
Bees reflect collective oneness
In the sweetness of their unity;
And in...
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Categories:
allegory, analogy, animal, butterfly,
LaviniaLavinia will watch the tall grass grow
Instinctly she gently mocks the rain and wind
yet admire the moorhens
as the sunlight hoovers amongst the rivers side
She will...
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Categories:
angst, animal, introspection, metaphor,
Half ButtWe stagger on the slopes heading home
We had been bar friends and home could be anywhere in between
As long as little comfort settled in, home...
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Categories:
animal, appreciation, community, friend,
in the surreal solemnity of naturein the surreal solemnity of nature
a solemn ant colony
passes in a funeral-like
procession
carrying bits of crumbs
and one of their own…
a lone ballooning spider
ceases his kiting
and hovers...
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Categories:
animal, extended metaphor, imagery,
Eyes Like a HawkMy mom has eyes like a hawk.
They‘re in the back of her head.
In town, she told me not to gawk.
I followed down the...
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Categories:
allegory, animal, bird, fear,