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Extended Metaphor Poems | Examples of Extended Metaphor Poetry

Premium Member 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
Premium Member DESPAIR NOT
DESPAIR 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 hole
In 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
Premium Member TEXAS FLOODING WARS
TEXAS 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's
Your 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
Premium Member In The Waiting Womb Thereof
In 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
Premium Member 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 Wrench
My 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
Premium Member CELESTIALLY GRACED LOVE
CELESTIALLY 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
Premium Member 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 Order
At 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
Before
Anguish 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

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