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.
Valentine's Day 2015Valentine’s Day 2015
An odd way to spend it,
At Hospice watching Nana sleep,
This room becoming our world
On a rotating basis.
Right now there’s me
And Nana and IT
The...
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Categories:
caregiving, death, family, metaphor,
A Hunger Unfedfrom your first born, when you grab a dusting of talc, crushed with late night feeds, stirring in bouncing and stories on a knee,
adding a...
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Categories:
family, analogy,
Interview OverheardI hear them talking as I open my eyes,
a hazy something lingers on my lips like lava,
threatening to erupt. I hear question then...
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Categories:
family, analogy, animal,
Grieving the ShiftTime passes, conversation and music ends,
light refracts, shimmers in water, bends.
Nails grow, hair lengthens, heads turn and bones break,
stems wilt, gardens overgrow, clouds regurgitate water...
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family, analogy,
Flower ChildMay the child of the woman whom is named yellow flower
Always brighten your life when you are in your darkest hour,
As well as shine like...
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baby, child, family, flower,
Narrow Margin- in those moments, it shines.
The nostalgia of an upside down
world glinting up through hourglasses of years,
a mark impressed upon flesh; a scar harbouring
simple childhood...
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family, analogy,
Sweet BreadSweet bread, pure pleasure.
Most awesome of creation!
New life -forever!...
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Categories:
family, life, love, metaphor,
DECEPTIVE BOSOM OF LIFE
This poem is a metaphor.
Crying tires,
shattered glass,
it all happened,
so very fast.
His life it flashed,
before his eyes,
a life swaddled in set ups,
and lies.
No direction,
for the good,
he...
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Categories:
family, child abuse, childhood, death,
Change
Time may change me
But I can't trace time
-David Bowie
piercing morning winds threaten
to strip the trees of their
orange, golden and crimson gowns;
the resilient foliage
gripping tightly to...
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Categories:
family, addiction, anxiety, autumn, daughter,
There Was a Man From DonbasThere was a man from Donbas
There was a man from Donbas,
who sat on a headless ass.
"Hey! You're going the wrong way!" he...
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Categories:
america, extended metaphor, family,
TeethIll comply, ill apologise, im ing tired
I’ll hold your hand in mine, resigned, fingertips when i dont exist
Palm to palm on a good day, a...
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Categories:
family, 5th grade, addiction, child
She Loves You BecauseSpit fire and spin honey,
the target-a wealthy man and his money.
She has no other talent that qualifies,
just the sum of what quantifies.
She's got cause and...
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Categories:
deep, extended metaphor, family,
SerendipitySERENDIPITY
Serendipity, a promise of destiny,
In the middle of the night, you dream,
You cry every time, for the revelation to find,
God’s promise, Word spoken,...
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Categories:
conflict, extended metaphor, family,
On a Foggy Day You Can See the WarIs it the fog or is it just the steam
That's rising from Italian coffee cups?
Today I wonder if the sunlight beam
Was ever cherished by the...
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Categories:
autumn, family, love, metaphor,
Begging To Be Someones FamilyI 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:
family, absence, addiction, betrayal, black