Metaphor Free Verse Poems

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

Written: August 14, 2025

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River answers cloud with shimmer, and cloud
with a hush

© Sotto Poet  

In the rain shadow of Majave Desert I eat hot sand
I am singing with their Death Valley
I have allowed them to build my faith under

© Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah  

A return to Normalcy
As night comes, all are at ease 
We turn into slumber 
In the electric comfort 
Of artificiality that is our lives 
We

© Poet Tellaferro  

The seed of freedom is curtailed,
germinates interrupted,
the harvest is delayed...

The fruit of freedom
may take time to be harvested,
but it is worth every stoic sacrifice...

We cultivate

© Alkas Poetry  

There were four men
searching for truth
They all knew 
that sixteen hundred years before 
Someone was asked
by a washing hands' man
to say what was the truth.

One

© ignazio salvatore basile  

r = f(?)
Spirals
Archimedian
Logarithmic
Fractal
Mirabilis
Uncontrolled
One point to the next
Ever widening, no end
So with arguments

~kcm 

© Karam Misra  

I once saw a soul hold a brush—
when my eyes first fell in love
with the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Michelangelo, with the sweep of his hand,
took me

© Chanda Katonga   

As the dream king is sat at his throne...

What am I to do whilst I am away? What then would befall my kingdom? There is

© Isiah Morales  

Line of inquiry: “the essence in us is the same
               

© Kim Rodrigues  

I’ve never learned the art of a reliable recipe,
only the art of guessing who might eat it.

I will learn what you love,
the way you take

© Eryn Morne  

Pálida, quedará la Luna 
por tú decepción.
Pero alumbrara aún 
está y mil noches 
que vengan 
a través de la persiana 
de la alcoba.

El árbol, copozo

© Lissette J. Garcia   

I look at my soul killing its flaws. I appreciate it and let it do so. But when I came back to earth to show

© Balbir Singh Dosanjh   

The bowel of the earth deepens with
Saturated blessings of the soil, and
Down, down, the forces burrow in its
Caverns —creviced

Between day and night, I cannot decipher,
Yet

© Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu  

May I return when nights come 
And off the furious outside mind
And lit beams inside of some kinds 
 
They sparkle calmness as seeds 

© Xuefeng Pan  

I walk a rope that hangs in air,
It moves with rules I do not see.
Each step I take feels watched, not free,
And I forget who

© Abir Sawran