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Kids Extended Metaphor Poems

These Kids Extended Metaphor poems are examples of Extended Metaphor poems about Kids. These are the best examples of Extended Metaphor Kids poems written by international poets.

Little Red Riding Hood Wants To Be Skinny Too

I was jogging down a wooden trail, Hoping to lose the extra holiday fat
When I saw my favorite little girl, Sporting her fabled red cape...

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Categories: extended metaphor, allegory, angst, body, culture,

Heel To Foot

i always walked a sidewalk on my way back from the park,
and i always approached heel to foot,
because that’s what my dad taught me that...

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Categories: extended metaphor, absence, age, analogy, boy,

Begging To Be Someones Family

I lost my whole family
So I took in a neighbor
I have paid, sold, washed, shopped, cleaned, and done for this neighbor more than anyone in...

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Categories: extended metaphor, absence, addiction, betrayal, black

Riding Sixties Shotgun

I was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread 
heavenly ThriftyAcres

Wanna be a WalMart...

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Categories: extended metaphor, beauty, community, culture, extended

Swarm of Bee Party Poetrix

screams erupt in the morning
kids running everywhere
bee hive party...

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Categories: adventure, allusion, extended metaphor,

Current Aura

So sick & tired of being pulled every which way but right
my chest continues to hurt, my breathing breaks and cracks, this pain ain't light.
Stuck...

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Categories: extended metaphor,

Post Pandemic Life

The park moving

with the kids playing there

the pleasant chat coming back

chair back to the balcony

the cult of renewed faith

without any agony

rediscover parish

reign joy again

renew the...

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Categories: extended metaphor, allegory, allusion, appreciation, desire,

Only Children and Pure Realize What Living Is

Only the children and the pure
 realize what is to live...
The pure does not live in the shadows
kids does not frame bombs...
The pure realizes the...

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Categories: extended metaphor, allusion, analogy, appreciation, extended

The Narcissist and the Moon

Her mind is the remains of a diseased carcass
Jealous of even her own son and daughters
She goes by the title of mother 
Yet she abuses...

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Categories: extended metaphor, abuse, anti bullying, extended

Tax Time

Count the money in my pocket  

Count the coins for my eyes 

Count the dollars my daddy gave you,  

For when the Angel's...

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Categories: december, extended metaphor, freedom,

Guerre De Trenches

Who waits  on tomorrow when today is barely tolerable?
greet the sun
and the light
Green leaves,
Warm brown bark.
How many dawns will see them still,
as they have...

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Categories: addiction, corruption, extended metaphor,

Screams of the Nature

Screams the banana,
                      ...

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Categories: extended metaphor, 7th grade, abuse, allegory,

Poems About Poems Vi

Poems about Poems VI

The Board
by Michael R. Burch

Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their...

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Categories: extended metaphor, heaven, muse,

The Old Weathered Barn

"My heart still feels those times spent in the warmth - from the poem 'What the eye sees the heart cannot forget."   (A...

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Categories: appreciation, extended metaphor, family,

You Never Listened

You Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
 
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
 
You were not watching,
though each night...

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Categories: extended metaphor, baby, birth, children, extended