SERENITY
SERENITY
Hate's up in the air;
naturing winds of peace blowing:
Hate snuffed out by love:-
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Categories:
allegory, extended metaphor, hate,
Form: Haiku
DESPAIR NOTDESPAIR NOT
Root not in despair,
be in the reaping of God’s
fruits of healing grace:
Glorified in your progress,
continue plowing onward:-
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Categories:
extended metaphor, cheer up, confidence, encouraging,
Form: Tanka
Dumped in a black holeIn just a day,
I lost my father, my mum,
and my only two siblings,
I became the only member of my family:
my own father,
my own mother,
my own siblings.
I was left to s~w~i~m the ocean a l o n e...
I was like the only spared t^r^e^e of...
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Categories:
depression, extended metaphor, grief,
Form: Free verse
TEXAS FLOODING WARSTEXAS FLOODING WARS
(Apropos Of A Lesson Of Nature)
The flood waters came,
leaving lost lives washed away;
eyes flooded with tears:
Nature herself, warring with
collateral disaster:-
So many children
won’t be thirsty anymore;
flood waters drowned them:-
Let us thirst for quenching peace:
our human nature flooded:-
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Categories:
extended metaphor, allegory,
Form: Tanka
Your Smile Is As Cute As A Baby Seal'sYour smiles frozen over,
and you stand tall above the water
like an iceberg, so tall and elegant
in your presentation.
But surface-level trickery
can’t fool or satiate
my scuba diver
curiosity.
I see through your
poorly constructed ruse.
I prep my gear,
dive deep into your ocean,
and discover that underneath
the surface-level beauty lies dormant
a bummock of cuts and bruises.
The true nature of things,
the true nature...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
I AM
I am verb! Created by the divine breath,
coming from primitive events...
Essence of ethereal circumstances,
Plasma of thickening, voids
Of invisible cosmic mysteries,
juice of amalgamated conceptions!
Succinct metamorphosis of balance.
In my primitive molecule, the genesis
the core of physical-chemical reactions...
It is from the axis of me that magically spring,
The health of...
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Categories:
allusion, extended metaphor, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry
In The Waiting Womb ThereofIn The Waiting Womb Thereof
(Apropos Of Poetic Onement)
Thanks for being here with me
in the waiting time of the birthing
flow from the poetic womb thereof:
We mind-pregnant poets have all experienced
that spacing time reality of which poets must be
in waiting for the waiting poetic womb to give birth:-
At times, we’re forced to realize that we, too,...
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Categories:
allegory, extended metaphor, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Tripping Over Their Clippings
Chicago Cubs stumble their way to another loss tonight
~ tripping over their own press clippings
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Categories:
baseball, chicago, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Unbroken WrenchMy friend comes through and talks to me,
With their stuck nails being all I can see.
Instead of listening further,
I get my wrench and try to loosen the nails,
Trying to make them no longer be a problem.
However, what I couldn’t see,
Was that my wrench was damaging the nails,
The ones in my friend,
And they were only...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, 10th grade, analogy, extended
Form: Free verse
CELESTIALLY GRACED LOVECELESTIALLY GRACED LOVE
The day has its sun,
And the night, its moon:-
I am blessed to have you,
Each bright day and night:-
Your presence is as the cosmic beauty of God:
Reflecting the shiny, glorious glow of His light:-
As you are my ever glowing sun of my day,
May I ever be your glowing moon of your night:-...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, analogy, appreciation, beauty, extended
Form: Couplet
AS IS GOD'S TIME
AS IS GOD'S TIME
Our love is as God’s time be:
Tick tocking eternally:-
I’m yours, and you’re mine;
Our love, God’s gift, sublime:-
I am for you, and you are for me;
Our love is as is God’s time be:-
You are the water of my life’s sea:
Waving and frothing love eternally:-
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Categories:
allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Couplet
From Chaos to OrderAt first Chaos became from void borne,
And it stirred the primordial mass,
Before Earth or the Sea or the Sky,
Had a reason to moan or comply,
Then did emerge Ananke above,
Who did give a primordial shove,
Become inevitable to change,
So, the Earth and the Sky be arranged,
And then father time emerged from muss,
Fair Ananke said that there is...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, fantasy, myth,
Form: Sonnet
BeforeAnguish and Sorrow,
Is begotten to abyss,
Light does not exist,
Mass no actuality,
Until blessed by sacred will.
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Categories:
birth, birthday, extended metaphor,
Form: Tanka
Kundalini
shakti faculty uncoils awake, rise
sacred kundalini life-force stream
connecting radiant spiral wheels gleam
ecstatic prana floods to paradise
creative energy winding serene
unifies with cosmic Supreme divine
sanctified exposed exalted benign
purified individual Soul seen
equal masculine and feminine poles
high frequency Source liberates powers
supersonic singular wisdom grow
gracefully presents fertility whole
hot bellied alert colour fruity hours
spinal...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, allusion, change, character, deep,
Form: Italian Sonnet
ENIGMA
Space is positioned
above all between what we feel,
and what we see...
The universe flourishes,
between the void and the invisible...
And it forms independently
in the same way it has always been...
I fear that man will destroy
what he finds here,
before knowing what is there...!...
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Categories:
allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Specific Types of Extended Metaphor Poems
Read wonderful extended metaphor poetry on the following sub-topics:
animal, family, friends, football, kids, lion, love, loneliness, moon, nature, yourself
and more.
Definition | What is Extended Metaphor in Poetry?
Poems Related to Extended Metaphor
symbol, image, analogy, similitude, emblem, personification, allegory, hope, metonymy, trope,