Extended Metaphor Poems | Examples of Extended Metaphor Poetry

outcast or saint

 
count grains 

fought  won

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CHOICES

       

I chose to be like the air 
because it allowed me 
Be like the wind, 
And fly! 
I chose to be like water 
because it allowed me 
sea 
And bathe you! 
I chose your love, 
because it allowed me 
Take your fire, 
and burning me, 
Without burning me!

Sunflower Farm : verse

 
a trillion petals magnetise my tender Heart

racing past farm workers in morning dew

Sun embellishes yellow song 

crazed by mesmerising muse

saffron they slap an early chill gold

seeds swallow empty hopes sold

 

We Drink Ambrosia - Fugue

 
we drink ambrosia from goblets within our Hearts
browline meets browline you drink your own 
which dripped into mine hush hush the surfer 
and soldier homed, drinking ambrosia honed
yin-yang becomes yang-yin as frequencies ripple
from nerves slashing nerves when point pulse
point, nails dig nails, light entering wet wounds knuckles balloon, merged muscles sting sing,
bring strands blowing

hern swollen mine eyne

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                      not all uv thuh world
                            

Home

She say she wants to go home with me tonight as we sit by the bus park,
but I tell her we can make home right here in this moments,
haven't you heard heavens rumours that the god of love escaped,
maybe the rumours are true cause you are with him at the moment,
gods create let me create

CRAFTWORK OF LIFE

    

Hands that perform tasks,
creative exercise of creating...

Feet that walk firmly
in the fruitful movement of walking...

Rain that falls generously
in the blessed gift of watering...

The wind blows that blows beneficently...
benign work of blowing!
Sleeps the night... healing sleeps,
inspiring epiphany in dreaming...
Goats skip,
healthy vibrant revelry...
Children are enlightened by playing
holy craft of educating,
Men should only love,
divine

thunderclap

thunderclap
                             without bending 
                  its cultural boundaries

somewhere

somewhere among the shaded trees this version of Tuesday

The Tutu and the Gown: A Fairy's Dilemma

Roaming in the corridor,
The fairy chuckled,
Mesmerized by the beauty of her own dress,
She grew self-assured in her little fairy school.

The multi-colored tutu,
inlaid with wild flowers;
Rivaled her silver sandals,
Which gleamed like her sparkling wings behind.

Then came the final day,
Bidding farewell to her tiny realm,
She moved ahead.

With sadness and excitement intertwined,
She decided to work through,
Until she became

The Great Toad

("Peyote Moon", 2018, original encaustic)

The Great Toad

At the gateless gate
I met the Great Toad
Sitting tall and wide

And in his gaze
All my needs were known
And met

And in that moment 
I passed beyond
Without a trace

(8/17/25)

Mouldy Fear Fugue

  
she drinks mouldy fear in morning 
the morning needing vit C vit C
team Alice alliterates twig pieces to be 
to be sprouting green leaves true blue 
sweeping bits onto dustpan hue true  
grit to cubes which only they read heed 
using time making dough row seed
painting faces so cute for pic to

in the group

in the group of dewdrops which crystallize loose boundedness 
whose coercive force is unmatched among standoffish streets
we maintain the latent misgivings about our absence 

SOULS HAVE COLOR

       The soul has color
    Yes, it's absolutely true...

  Evil has a soul of an undefined color,
     Good has a transparent soul,

        Angels and children
         have

Advertently A Half-Baked Human Being

Born into this next life 
from the past, 
I was told 
I was a human. 
Make sense, the birth-
mark on my right 
arm hints to me like 
a treasure map. 
Well at least 
that’s what my nurse 
friend believes 

so 

I asked God, 
creation is your specialty, 
but how come a chimera looks 
more complete

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