Hyperbole Poems - Examples of all types of hyperbole poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Dear ReaderI’m sorry, reader.
You’ve simply arrived too late.
All the action has already happened:
I’ve slain the dragon,
stolen the gem,
ran through dagger forests,
sacrificed life and limb,
and no one was even there to see it!
I swam through a...
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Categories:
adventure, humor, humorous, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse
Useless AnswersHow come you overlook such witty answers?
Those smashers, always hitting up too late!
They fluff the air with dust, like ballet dancers
Whirl down, like feathers in ethereal debate
Watch them in rapid whoosh, like flock of swifts
Triumphal...
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Categories:
humorous, hyperbole, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Oceanic Encounters of a Pinching Kind
Swimming in the ocean
a wincing couple pinches
Little creature on my leg
not...
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Categories:
fantasy, giggle, hyperbole, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Walter Mitty-like Dreams
The US President is everywhere and everything, it seems
At least he is, in his Walter Mitty-like dreams
Racing to Ground Zero the very next day
...
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Categories:
dream, hyperbole, leadership, truth,
Form: Couplet
In Our ImageLet us make man in Our Image
and God responded, then we must
make him strong and healthy, respectful
and kind, blind to color that is not
of the fields and sky, let not his
own varied pigments, be a...
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Categories:
hyperbole, christian, creation, faith, humanity,
Form: Free verse
TMI"If you ask him what time it is he tells you how to build a watch."
...
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Categories:
baseball, hyperbole, wisdom,
Form: Monoku
Moonlight MetaphorsIn the morning,
I am not a poet.
This is no matter of opinion,
It is an undisputable fact, and don't I know it.
I am not a poet
In the afternoon, either.
Not for a lack of trying,
The words simply...
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Categories:
dream, hyperbole, imagery, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Daily Writing: Write a poem about BananasSometimes you cruise through life
with blinders on
Completely unawares of those damned
slippery bananas
At every turn and corner they lurk
like a lion on the savanna
and you, in this scenario; a gazelle
Hopping and skipping along
Sipping your Starbucks,
playing among...
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Categories:
fantasy, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse
You Hate Me And I Love YouNo, my brain is alive, not dead
To know that you hate me
And yet I love you dearly
I practice love not hatred
I care about uncontiditional love
Not mutual feelings dripping from above
In rainy and stormy seasons. In...
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Categories:
hyperbole, cute love, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Orgy of Fresh InkOvernight, the landscape has
More color and yet less
How’d I fall asleep on the East Coast
And wake up in the West?
Everybody is tattooed
Everybody is tattooed
Uh-oh! The social fabric is unglued
My God, his is bigger than...
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Categories:
hyperbole, america, corruption, fun, giggle,
Form: Lyric
Rascallions and other de-blessed humanizing fauna
Some things are royal
others so prosaic
and then there's everything else
You bring your own biases to the choice
BUT the question then arises:
do these (even these)
belong to you?
It's Your day
Your life
Your breath
(cratered between small clumps
of sunrise and...
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Categories:
allegory, hyperbole, paris, parody,
Form: Burlesque
Canadian broadcasting corperationNot so TREU, will monopolise through and though
It will be better, if you could forget about your
And the long two weeks' that broke who..?
Maybe me? Or you? What can people do?
Well Gandi did peaceful non...
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Categories:
hyperbole, abortion, anxiety, conflict, crazy,
Form: Verse
Quats going downTheres qanon and lgbtq blm its quite a stew
I note the second i mention above have added
A plus sign that makes me buzz ! for it really
Speaks to me as i am hestro + i...
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Categories:
appreciation, destiny, giggle, hyperbole,
Form: Rhyme
The Charm Of Beautiful WomenI had leaned on the bar of the balcony, when suddenly
My eyes and my mind have captured, from far away
A silhouette creeping down the steps and the stairs
Imitating a sassy ballerina with great skills and...
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Categories:
flower, heaven, hyperbole, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Toadies of our Times
Midst anger fester the fox's concerns
infecting every breathing room
with pique and plaint in brilliance painted
ensconced in virtue, truth untainted
Whilst swirls the...
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Categories:
allegory, anger, hyperbole, satire,
Form: Couplet
Specific Types of Hyperbole Poems
Definition | What is Hyperbole in Poetry?
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