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Metaphor Gender Poems

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


BEHIND THOSE WALLS
By Cherbo Geeplay


My wife whispered: somebody, go call Muna 
to come here. Let her tell her dad what she 
told me today. I asked: What’s...

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Categories: depression, gender, literature, metaphor,



Borne
The men went through the fields and gardens,
Ripping the weeping petals off of flowers
Which had not yet blossomed,
Claiming their beauty was not right.
The men shouted...

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© Mara Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: environment, gender, metaphor,

Premium Member Human Landscape
Man the tall mountain,
    
    Protector to pose,

    Flexing of granite,

    Willed flesh...

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Categories: gender, allegory, allusion, analogy, beautiful,

Premium Member Before There Were Rainbows
Before there were rainbows, I roamed ambidextrously,
I streeled out into predawn air, senseless between Moon and Mars,
Reeling under Calvinistic cinder blocks, I hid from my...

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Categories: gender, america, anxiety, freedom, metaphor,

The Lunatic Inside Me Iz a Hen Pecking Noose Hens Ii
Though afflicted with severe 
panic/anxiety attacks 
suffering became manifest destiny 
for decades housed née sequestered 
in abominable barracks
(one common joe biden his time)
made debut during...

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Categories: gender, abuse, allusion, angst, body,



The Grandladder Clock
My Gentlemen, 
I have done all it takes.
Made fore my man, was a formless frame
Worked by a wombsman, unplaned, clear of grain
A brittle whittled acorn...

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Categories: gender, extended metaphor, father, father

To Ramesses In Poseidon Depths Lie
Metal, blood, and mascara 

Half sunk a shattered visage lies,
A wrinkled lip, a sneer of cold command,
Of boundless and bare
Along the level, sands stretch far...

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Categories: gender, allegory, allusion, america, analogy,

Goldilocks Now
But, my friend said, if Goldilocks was alive today her story would be different:
we’re just so used to the fairy tale message, the simplified right...

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Categories: gender, analogy,

There For Me
Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Categories: gender, 12th grade, character, hope,

The Heaven Is Standing By
It is the ages that are stepping out infront of me.
It is the time that keeps dancing with me
And the ferocious wind keeps insulting my...

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Categories: gender, business, courage, extended metaphor,

Premium Member Raindrop Trars Falling-
Tenacity of clouds;
Marshes dry;
Open eyes;
Cry;
Waters  rolled down the cheeks of the Mountainside;
Cheeks and cheeks flowing pride;
Tears and raindrops reconcile ;
Two drops of rain...

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Categories: allusion, analogy, environment, gender,

Premium Member Grandmother Moses Speaks
I was minding our own ancient business,
making maple and brown sugar oatmeal
for my constantly
and instantly 
devouring daughter,
when GrandMother Moses
of Poetic Narrative
broke into my day:

frankly, I...

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Categories: anger, fear, gender, health,

The Intersection
the sign itself doesn’t 
stop
like my heart,
red and cornered.

a flashing soul faces you
eager to make the turn
onto a one-way street, 
called time....

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© A.O. Taner  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gender, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful, break

Balance For Better
Balance for better reminds me of a seesaw!
I sit on one side, she sits on the other, I see from here, She sees from there,...

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Categories: family, gender, metaphor, poetry,

Premium Member To the Chosen Many
to those who are black,
we’ve come too far to turn back;
to those who are white, stand up and fight
for what’s truly right;

to those of another...

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Categories: gender, 7th grade, allegory, anti


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