Nature Extended Metaphor Poems

BLACK DEFORESTATION

Like innocent trees rooted and growing
In a black social forest, we’re being chopped
down by roving lumberjack officers of the law,
as if we were arboreal-like...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Dropping Flowers, Blades Of Grass, And Us

Like flowers droop
but refuse to die
from the heat,
like tanned fields
subsumed in the struggle
to survive and keep
the flow of transpiration,
like...

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I watched a leaf release its breath,
A golden sigh upon the air.
It tumbled softly into death,
A quiet dance without despair.

The wind, a gentle funeral song,
Caressed...

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summer peaks are coming
cicadas are singing za, zi zi, zi...!

How many whispers of time,
flower, fire, rain, cold...
earthly dreams in cycles...!

New shoots on the earth,
renewal crying...

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THE ULTIMATE NATURE OF WAR

Sown love reaps world peace,
While sown hate will reap world war:
Power its sower:-
Sharers of love will sow peace:
Profiteers of war, sow...

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IN THE GARDENING OF LIFE

We are as the sun,
Our survival is of God;
Though down, we shall rise:-
We’ve sown bad seeds before,
And have had to plow...

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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...

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IN THE IRONY OF FORGIVENESS

The irony of forgiveness,
Is that human nature, doesn't
Demand that its cause
Be given forgetfulness;
Thus, giving anger opportunity
To revive its paining spirit
Of negative...

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The true dawn of dreams
that lingers like twilight’s kiss.
Luxury’s revels
draped in a regal cloak’s hush.

Crowned with velvet robes
of night’s elegant embrace,
with a mind and soul
brushed...

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I opened my eyes when it was too late.
The river passed before my wide-open eyes.
I missed my childhood;
I was a prisoner in my mind.
Neither God...

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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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The sun having a frozen side~
  a wish like a snowball in hell,
or netting the wind while oceans b o i l
  in...

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