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Metaphor Family Poems

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


Khia's Crusade
Saracen princess, 

Blackened corridors bathed in honey hold you in high esteem as you dance in flickers, eyes raising the death toll every time you...

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Categories: desire, family, metaphor, military,



What becomes of a world?
The trees ache with a pain only those who have witnessed true horror 
The swinging rope moping for it had been turned to a killer...

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Categories: discrimination, family, funeral, metaphor,

Your Smile Is As Cute As A Baby Seal's
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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Categories: family, 10th grade, 11th grade,

You are My Poetry
When I am with you,
words melt like sugar in tea—
too sweet to hold, too warm to grasp.
The verses stop on my tongue,
because you are the...

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Categories: cute love, family, feelings,

You are My Poetry
When I am with you,
words melt like sugar in tea—
too sweet to hold, too warm to grasp.
The verses stop on my tongue,
because you are the...

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Categories: cute love, family, fantasy,



Clemency
There was a girl named Clemency
who walked with me to college every morning.
Neither shy nor outspoken.
Her face was always concealed by a mask.

I have never...

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Categories: family, abuse, brother, depression, endurance,

Premium Member When Evil Hides Among Their Smiles
She whispered to me, "I hope you suffer well."
God heard her words, and he smiled,
for if suffering is what she wanted for me,
her hopes would...

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Categories: family, child, courage, death, evil,

Premium Member 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,...

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Categories: family, allegory, anxiety, death, extended

The Stray
I was born in the sunshine of your house.
I remember the soft fold of your smile,
As you read me bedtime stories,
Sprouting in my memory,
The fall...

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© Cat Bevins  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: family, addiction, change, depression, emotions,

Lifes' cards
Life's a deck of cards, fate’s unsteady hand,
And I hold the joker, at life's command.
For every joy, a shadow falls,
A dance of highs, and sudden...

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Categories: family, absence, angst, care, extended

home-made meal
You can eat me alive from the inside out:
rip my skin away and chop my bones.

I'll let you choke down my flesh and
slit my tummy.

Just...

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Categories: family, abuse, allegory, angst, child

Makabre Marionetta
Hey mommy I am here to play
Daddy and brother are on the way 
To the underworld where I sent them
By gutting tummies and dissecting 
Innards...

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Categories: family, character, child, conflict, dark,

The Last Supper
Our candle refuses to consume the night,
it lit only to paint our shadows on the round mud walls
We were splattered greys of thin paint, mounted...

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© Bantu West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: family, angst, appreciation, bible, character,

Premium Member THE SUN WILL RISE LIKE A FIRE IN THE RAIN
My poem is a metaphor.
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We went swimming in total passion beneath the moonlight.  The reflections of love drowned by the eye of God. Your...

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Categories: family, character, growth, leaving, love,

Premium Member In A World Where I Do Not Exist
Near a distant sun
Under an uncontaminated crystalline sky
Exists a world without me

Where the viridescent grass ages unchallenged 
Wears wizened beards
And bows only to the wind

Where...

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Categories: children, family, life, meaningful,


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