Best Figurative Poems

The figurative nail hit on the hirsute covered head!

Eventually vices will witness me crow king
cough'n affliction caw hearse courtesy 
smok'n since me yay high,
hence appellation (mountain) wheezer 
natural set of adult teeth (rotten to the core)  
easily plucked out courtesy tweezer, 
this har nonestablishmentarian,...

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Across figurative and literal blackened white board...

Where death of democracy writ large,
nevertheless psychological strength predominates
unlike earlier chapters of mein kampf.

Mine hardscrabble existential debacle 
spelled losing game
swept me up in malevolent mindset 
far adrift from harbored haven; 
I floundered like a fish out of water 
entangled...

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I miss him i do, because theres so very few
boys like him he was like a rare gem
I told him my life shared with him my fears
shared my happy times and drowned him with my tears
He was my confident the only one I could talk...

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Perched on figurative shoulder...
taking devil's advocate stance...,
with sharp eyed cognizance
of course Joe King abidance!

Wild eyed traitor Joe Schmoe,
albeit Democrat subjects himself to grow
wing skepticism at impeachment show
whip lashed, viz strapping jock who stow
weapons of mashed destruction
expects at least one rotten tomato,
or "mother's petrified pop slop,

electronic...

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Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell:

Yours truly just a fluke of the universe
worming his way hook, line and sinker
thru the meandering time stream,
which current speeds up the older I get.

A garden variety (generic) agrarian wannabe
antiauthoritarian, bookish antiquarian bloke,
antitotalitarian, well mannered barbarian
disestablishmentarian, egalitarian, futilitarian,
grammarian, quasi hereditarian, latitudinarian,
libertarian,...

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Across figurative and literal board... 
mine hardscrabble existential debacle spelled losing game of trouble

Oft times, I experience wretchedness being alive
spurring wonderment whereby thoughts
of my demise doth drive
analogous to buzzfeeding bumbling bees
combing into their hive.

Giddiness prevailed
when coronavirus (COVID-19)
warranted quarantine to diminish
transmitting pandemic virus thru the air
lifestyle...

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FIGURATIVE FINGERTIPS

a talent
to dabble
  with
  profligacy
in different styles

brilliant&
fluent
subtle&
muted palette
phase
of the
immediate
  liberated
in a
 suggestive
 genre

an attractive
template
 flitting between
subjects
never alighting
with a
tendency to
 marginalise
artistic
   encounters
&
to manipulate
scenery
  of substance


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique...

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Figurative Eyes

Trees waltz as wind storms pass them by
in words of verse by poets that sigh
to see the world with beauty and grace
not just a plain, old ordinary place.

6/8/18 

aabb

When a fourth line helps it to rhyme!  Sponsored by Silent One...

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Frost and horse stopped by the woods
Kilmer wrote of God and trees
Nash would spoof with billboard trash
Yet trees figured first in Genesis.

In the garden of Eden
trees abounded all but two -
One the tree of life and then
the tree of knowledge, good and evil

March 9, 2022

My...

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Figurative paralysis laid waste body electric of mine

This is Spinal tap 
bamboozling, binding, bleeding, bombing...
ripped from every dog eared 
and book marked page
recounting latest ill fated fiasco, 
now peppering my life and hard times
causing quite an ache – fiercely teasing 
(the fire cat) curative panaceas...

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Whoami? Within following figurative nutshell:

Yours truly just a fluke of the universe
worming his way hook, line and sinker
thru the meandering time stream,
which current speeds up the older I get
rocketing toward my sixty fifth birthday
January thirteenth two thousand twenty four.

A garden variety (generic) agrarian wannabe
antiauthoritarian, bookish...

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Under the paint, beneath the layers, 
Before the brush had arrived,
She was drawn all in grey, sort of straight lines, 
And she was bound to be blind,

There where all types of shades covering her world, 
Her world so vividly real,
Shades for the mystery to be...

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Your beauty perfect
through arid existence I chase
in the flashes of mirage.
The desert dew pearls
on lone sands of dune I draw
with the sinking sun's spectrum. 
...

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... The pen is mightier than the sword ...


The poet knight went off to war
To prove his valor true.
Sir Arthur Berk, the troubadour,
Knew he had much to do

For he had found a greater sword
To strike his foes down dead.
He swore to fight invading horde
And make...

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"See for yourself"

It is obvious that -if  only- we were to list the functions of the eyes,
we would need a lot of time to get to see....

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