Metaphor City Poems
These Metaphor City poems are examples of City poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of City Metaphor poems written by international poets.
Categories:
anxiety, character, city, community,
Graphite Steps
My soles press soft
into sidewalks. I leave
a trail of graphite steps
They etch out my first sentence—
a diary in crayon, a novel in margins
Time sharpens...
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Categories:
childhood, city, meaningful, memory,
BASEBALL BISCIUITS WONDERNo kitchen home run
Over done
Hardness baked
Teeth couldn’t bite
Those biscuits certainly weren’t light
Totally wonder plight
They were made to throw
Oh know
Unfamiliar with ingredient
Those biscuits should be on...
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Categories:
city, anger, anxiety, care, change,
Spring CascadesAs snow is melting,
It's as though even buildings
Are softly crying....
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Categories:
city, cry, metaphor, nature,
Between Two WorldsI stand barefoot on the cold moss,
the forest breathing around me,
each leaf a whisper,
each tree a silent witness to my thoughts.
The earth beneath me is...
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Categories:
city, dance, earth, imagery,
IN MY SECOND HALF LIFE
Wandering in my darkness of soul
the city cries like a wounded animal
the sky wears a bruised dusk, half-forgotten.
Neon veins pulse through pavement cracks
a river...
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Categories:
city, allegory, america, analogy, art,
Where is the Shining City on a Hill?Where is the shining city upon a hill? ...
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Categories:
city, america, extended metaphor,
TimeSheila asked him
“Do you have the time?”
Ben answered “It’s five after two.” She responded “That is a perfectly good answer, but that is not the...
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Categories:
city, england, extended metaphor,
There Sits the City GoldThere sits the City Gold
Where robbers ne'er grab hold,
Nor rot, nor moth, nor mold.
There sits a lava moat
Not passable by boat
Nor rope, nor writ, nor...
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Categories:
city, analogy, god, jesus, metaphor,
I'm Just A Brick
I’m a brick and oh so lonely,
sitting here a hundred years.
Dry as dirt…oh if only
I could shed a single tear.
Here’s my story, forty stories,
up way...
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Categories:
absence, angst, city, loneliness,
City LightsCity lights
What stories do you tell?
A lonely woman checking out after a long day of work
One last sigh before the light goes out
A married couple...
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Categories:
city, conflict, depression, extended
Green City PoetrixAdorned by charming acacia trees
and rouge carpets of jambo flowers,
...
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Categories:
city, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
WeirdWired seeing the stars and moon playing hide and seek on wide firmament sky, It is Lulle to the mind, sound boob to it's brain....
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Categories:
city, allusion, art, cheer up,
I Dance With Shadows - Yclept SonnetWhen dappled shadows flit through darkened backstreets,
and whispers rendezvous with one another,
the usual bright spirits take a backseat.
They nurture remnants of rebounds which smother....
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Categories:
analogy, city, dream, metaphor,
Barcelona PoetrixBarcelona, immodest ramblas !
and a divine flamenco touch
...
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Categories:
city, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,