Extended Metaphor Poems | Examples of Extended Metaphor Poetry

Burning bridges That tired metaphor Often still seems so apt But you missed one important point When you tried to light that fire The fact is that we Like any modern bridge Were never made of wood You tried to ignite Concrete and steel Under an ocean gasoline Threw the match Watched the flames And walked away Thinking you had done A necessary evil For us both to survive But as the...

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A SHOOTING STAR In quietness of night, a fired star waving goodbye; turning off its light:-...

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(Apropos Of Self-Reparation) It has been said that we must love others As we love ourselves, loving each other As does the Author of love in loving us all:- (Thus, be food for thought if hungry) Dwelling in the court of the inner sanctum Of contemplation, Sage mind of jurisprudence charged my poor soul...

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. ohh yeah i can see...

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Sponsor : Kai Michael Neumann for POINT OF NO RETURN submitted : 31/5/25 THE CHOICE here I arrived, breath away boldly stepped out of a Blue Train, not waiting for fellow passengers with tedious conversations about Hemingway, Trump or Berlin not that these were served on gilded plate, croissant hot excitement dissolved into foreboding, pain shattered...

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. 'bout that land earth ...

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THE WAKE WITHOUT VIGIL Time longer than rope Chokes hearts dangling In the reality of struggle:- Grieving mothers and widows Veil their grief in sagging bosoms As they wail in excruciating silence:- Fragments of men, void of hope, View and count communal graves Swelling with dirt burying the dead:- (Buried are “The Wretched Of...

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Lovely, happy hair, Rowed, and growing in beauty; God’s sweet locks I bear:- Hued as is the night, Moonlight beauty reflecting Ebony delight:- Locks admired so much, Gardened rowed short or shouldered, Just got to be touched. God makes no mistakes; Creating natured beauty, Whatever hue takes:- Mirror check and see, The blooming beauty of thee, And gracefully be:- ...

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the door is being knocked, For ages, it has remained closed Who is there? The Sun looks The Breeze Halts Tulips raise their heads in delight But the Cascade still flows on Humming like an indifferent Bee Knock - knock - knock How persistent the knocking is... But who comes calling? Through the peepholes, its light spills in The Valley enlightes with joy Old Cider tree opens its...

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The sodium street lights Your few striped freckles The makeshift tattoo on my palm A couple? Never. It's always been a triple or even a single at best, A circle of medics healing medics. This distortion is fine It's a revolution of entrancing revolts. Relics ignite for every star in the ground, Scattered upon my brain. To my pressed, dear, deadest flowers... You keep leaving...

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I was drenched in black water, Yet, it looked as though I were dried out. I stood before a lighthouse, Yet, remained unseen. Gazing into the sea’s blackness, The highest tides forever circled me. My eyes could find no anchor, As my dark hands sailed towards the farthest shore. My home, too, was cloaked in shadow; Something unseen, yet present, walked with me there. The...

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Blossoming onwards Know you’re worthy of success; God…navigating… Like flowers of spring, Your destiny is assured; God…cultivating… Plow onwards in faith, Rowing towards your greatness; God…fertilizing… ...

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. 'tiz az thuh splash back front mine see thuh chill'd wine ...

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for : Choose a line 2 Sponsor : Joseph May prompt: “The darkened sky stole my tears” submission date : 27/5/25 Placed : 4th : multiple RETURN MY TEARS The darkened sky stole my tears soprano crystalline they quickly disappeared Lucy my name still neat to tweet, though inner ocean could no longer drip sighs sweet desert dry...

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haiku : van Gogh sunflower souls speak we hail our genius, true sight ~ lucid mind coloured ...

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