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Best Metaphorically Poems

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Premium Member Metaphorically Speaking
No matter how long you look to the sky
Rain wouldn't fall if there are no clouds;
So engage the sun, warm up your oceans
And uplift humid...

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Categories: metaphorically, encouraging, inspirational, metaphor,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Metaphorically
I

I Slip-
into   a dreamy dream-
and I am falling
into a greenforest

lost   in a    sea of trees

they are sobeautiful
the drums...

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Categories: metaphorically, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Third Person
He speaks metaphorically to avoid dealing direct, 
shows the unknown hand he’s against too much respect, 
writes about his bravery though it’s no where to...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphorically, anxiety, depression, introspection, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”


BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged...

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Categories: metaphorically, america, bible, corruption, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Conversation
Dark, the night morphs slowly toward dawn.
In its last vestige, the moment in which night becomes morning,
he speaks to me.
I refer to him as "he"...

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Categories: metaphorically, death, time,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member "two Thousand Twelve"
Free verse Rhyme

Never fearing.. as love is nearing
Love's consciousness force... completes it’s divorce...(Jer. 3:8) Metaphorically Love divorces
From the mind of strife... that cuts as a...

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Categories: metaphorically, inspirational, lovelove, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ode To Inspiration
Oh sapience of musings, oh savior of poetic art!
How longingly I seek you out to inspire my ballad
When lassitude of the night envelopes my mind
And...

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Categories: metaphorically, inspiration, literature, poetry,
Form: Ode
His Story
I've decided to write a letter
To everyone who ever told me that I wasn't good enough.
It could start off like “dear humanity,”
Because sometimes I feel...

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Categories: metaphorically, anti bullying, bullying, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just Within Reach
Just within reach - if only I could dare
to pluck that fruit! A luscious peach or pear?
No, not one of these! Metaphorically
I’m speaking! Like a...

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Categories: metaphorically, lost love,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Small Potatoes
Metaphorically they are
As rust to iron
In the fields of
The hunger demon
Ravaging timelessly
Small potatoes
Are like
The Grace of God....

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© Uwe Stroh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphorically, age, allegory, food,
Form: Free verse
Haunting Memories
Haunting Memories
                       ...

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Categories: metaphorically, child abuse, dark, deep,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member You Keep Me Grounded
You keep me grounded
to the soil of my soul
reminding me again
that my words matter
that they help scatter
misconceptions
making connections
pathways to inner places
leaving conjugated traces
of emotional bleeds
and...

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Categories: metaphorically, friendship,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Look Up If You Dare
INSPIRED BY THE FILM 
        DON’T LOOK UP

Humanity has become oblivious, ignorant to an inevitable lightening quick catastrophe,
Politicians...

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Categories: metaphorically, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Like a Folded Rose
I am incredibility inner today,
like a folded rose, metaphorically speaking
I am totally dwelling within . . .
the world moving outside of me
lost within my own...

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Categories: metaphorically, introspection, world,
Form: Free verse
Wasted Words
WASTED WORDS


Lounging near sleep and lingering time
are Eliot, Dylan and I.
We discuss preposterously shaped women
and laugh ‘til our heads roll down
the stairs and onto the...

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Categories: metaphorically, imagination, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs