Extended Metaphor Poems - Popular examples of all types of extended metaphor poetry to share and read. View a list of new poems for EXTENDED METAPHOR by modern poets.
she kissed me mommy.
whilst she giggled
whilst she was...
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Categories:
extended metaphor,
Form: Carpe Diem
OolI went to a pool
it was pretty cool
but then I was tired at school
my teachers think I'm a fool
good food makes me drool
my shirt is made out of wool...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, addiction, allegory, bangla, chanukah,
Form: Rhyme
bikini.
Let your'z truly
be please
the first to place mine
true 'pon slip...
"damn them feminine
...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, analogy, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Painted SmileIt’s all an act, can’t you see?
A pretense of Shakespearean complexity
A mask of so many layers it’s hard to hold
Yet it only gets heavier as this sorry life unfolds
If you really cared then you’d see...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, angst, dark, depression, extended
Form: Rhyme
Death is a Promise RingThe sun sets on the sorrow of mankind
That slithers in the vein, crawls like a vine
He wallows in the pit of those who succumb
And travels through history beating his drum
The blood from his armies stains...
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Categories:
extended metaphor,
Form: Couplet
RipTideOur love is like a riptide
wild ride, I am drowning in you.
Riptide, pool slide, can't fight it, suck you right back in
Can't swim to the side.
Sex ride, heat light, glow bright
driving us insane
I want you...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
Flower
You call me a flower
But what kind?
Is it a yellow tulip? A cluster of warm sunshine and happiness?
Or maybe a Lily of the Valley? The tears I’ve shed for you made into delicate little...
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Categories:
deep, environment, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
EXISTENCE poetrix
Drop of water in the immense sea
bird that lands and flies
tiny grain of sand in the desert...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, allusion, analogy, appreciation, extended
Form: Light Verse
this is why I say nothing if asked what I'm thinkingThe twisting and turning snatches of light are back on the wall
I can't decypher them - they don't have messages within
There's more to be known from snatches of caught words than prepared words
The truth...
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Categories:
extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Sounds in the SkyThe sun melts the milky way
Sending balloons shaped
Like electric eels
While dinosaurs cry rivers
That flow through the eyes and ears
Of every living insult
Filling sanctuaries
For smiling souls
Frozen in laughter
As false god's of mercy
Tremble in canyons
Shimmering with gold
The...
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Categories:
extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
The Natural Probe
The Natural Probe
The teal peels as it submits to gloaming,
and a round lucidity exposed abroad.
As the alien brilliance shines far away,
the maneuvered view is being cast.
'Tis dormancy that exacts dark period of tenure,
countdown from the...
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Categories:
dark, extended metaphor, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Beating A Dead Horse
Reins lifted in spite, a grimace
Blistering the urge to forgive the way
Black changed to gray right before your eyes,
Easing away the pain like, in fading, it might
Be changed to innocence like snow, freezing the weakness
In...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, animal, death of a
Form: Free verse
HEAVY LOAD poetrix
The unbearable burden
of an empty life
an unsustainable weight...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse
SHADOW SYMBOLSa gesture
an
immersive
spectacle
a threshold
is crossed
in the
silence
the
lingering
shadow
of
grief
enters
then
loses itself
in
light...
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Categories:
extended metaphor,
Form: Verse
Death in the Doorwaydeath's stood in the doorway
but i'm no good with words
so my pleas for mercy
come in the form of
fresh bandages on old wounds
and plastering my vices on greeting cards
though the reaper argues
that if there was any...
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Categories:
angst, extended metaphor, grief,
Form: Free verse
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?
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