Metaphor Elegy Poems
These Metaphor Elegy poems are examples of Elegy poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Elegy Metaphor poems written by international poets.
A legacy forgottenConsider my grave your resting place too,
An empathetic soul who rests here.
Worry not poet, it haunts no more,
Covered with maggots, I've rotted here for a...
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betrayal, corruption, extended metaphor,
CREATING POETRY
When one writes poetry,...
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allusion, analogy, blessing, creation,
An Elegy for InnocenceShe lived in an Edenic world, a paradise,
this child-like virgin of only sixteen years.
Moonlight glowed in her virtous blue eyes,
unaware that life could fill them...
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innocence,
STORY INSCRIBED ON JULY 13
“not every story has a beginning
some are told in the dark,
some begin at the end of our lives
& some end at the...
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death, deep, depression, emotions,
Greenling Elegy - Revision
clouded omens across code
the objective fact of the atmosphere here
starves even the most modest
ambitions of fish outside their home waters
journey of yearning mundane
day-glow gradients of...
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elegy, animal, betrayal, death, extended
Our Nile
"Do not stand by my grave and weep", they said.
Here's something she would have said instead.
"Hey, smile, all of your smiles are beautiful."
Hers was more...
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elegy, angel, cry, extended metaphor,
PsithurismThere was a sickly tree
In a barren clearing
In a burning country
On a mourning day.
A wild crown of branches
Haloed by concentric rings;
A rising wave of spires...
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extended metaphor, fate, fire,
Life In My LandLife in my Land
Life in my land is not by right
With greed, we are wound around
Hardened ruiners ravaging all we have
Like raptor they kill, devour...
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fear, grief, metaphor, murder,
My Chaste SinIt's full light of the steady day
Quickly it's night and love now dry hay
My love is pure and chaste, she saw gay
How shall I win...
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bereavement, boyfriend, deep, devotion,
Soul To SoulSOUL TO SOUL
(Written for Mother Sandy Stone, whom I met in 1992.)
SOUL TO SOUL ***
The early morning call.
A sand dollar skitters in...
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friend, grief, hope, imagery,
Translation of Jorge Manrique's Third Copla:Coplas a La Muerte De Su Padre By T WignesanCOPLA UNO: This Bad Guy World - in all seriousness
[The entire sequence of 114 coplas: “This Bad Guy World”, dedicated to Jorge MANRIQUE, 1440?-1479....
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bereavement, extended metaphor, grief,
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie...
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elegy, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor,
The Winter of Our DiscontentI'm discontent that you just went.
You did not think to say good-bye.
You were intent — you had to die.
You could have asked if it was...
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Categories:
death, extended metaphor, winter,
Ultra Violent Light
Dark grey matter
manifest crimson flow tendacies
Fade to black thoughts
formaldehyde revealed thru scope sight
Scarlet droplets trace a fetal prone outline;
such a morbid delivery ...
a...
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dark, death, metaphor, symbolism,
Tiempo Profundo to my son, Tito
A handful of sand in the angel's palm,
how often you strummed and sifted the metaphor
of Long Beach (since you...
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Categories:
absence, angel, appreciation, bereavement,