Best Figurative Language Poems

You know me as a poet, and writer of poems sad,
I take poetic license, violating rules and conventions;
telling a story using figurative language, I share,
...

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You know me as a poet, and writer of poems sad,
I take poetic license, violating rules and conventions;
telling a story using figurative language, I share,
...

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words


Actions versus words
Actions speak louder
Louder is figurative
Louder is expressive
Figurative language is effective
Figurative does not truly speak
Effective is deeply important
Effective is walking...

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Upon rising, awakened by 
ripening scent teasing my nose, 
trilling my lips and tongue, – my taste buds opening
to bird-like songs as dawn's light breathes...

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A small kernel, a tiny seed,
drifts into a fertile mind,
floated by inspiring muse,
sometimes angry, sometimes kind.

In furrows richly watered
ideas imbed, softening;
anticipated, cracking shell,
swift burst at...

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There is a small group of poets I come across sometimes
who write in a very lucid and vividly concrete style which totally enchants
me because, unlike...

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As a child, he outlasted the nine-month process and lasted ten months within his mother's womb. Ten months inside made him different than us. 
A...

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Translated from Georgian into English by Manana Matiashvili	

All that figurative language 
I’ve acquired from you:
“Life is tough”,
“Sweet is the soul”,
“Sky’s the limit”,
“Truth will out”.
“Knowledge is...

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By George P. Lumayag
https://georgelumayag.weebly.com/


Silent twilight like the darkest forest in the southeast
Covered with giant trees and surrounded by huge cliffs;
Sad natives in the valley mourned...

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Easter of the Resurrection of Christ

Protestants were supposedly persecuted
for their faith, 
so they left England.
In America they annihilated Natives

and in their protest
they abandoned Christ 
for...

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* Poetry Soup in detailed and its uses
* Publishing free of cost
* Copyright at free of cost
* Pseudonym/ID and password
* Poem writing made easy
* International...

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They call me the poetic master
a genius storyteller
writing poetry
channels the inner Frankenstein in me
with a simple press of a key
in each rhyme and stanza:

I can...

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This mind looks for a picture,
thinking of mental image
as well as the deep structure
of figurative language.






Note: This form is called Tanaga, a traditional short Filipino...

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Imagists use clear, simple language to paint a picture. Imagery, on the other hand, is use of flowery and descriptive language, and often figurative language,...

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