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Metaphor Imagery Poems

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


NO PLACE FOR POETS

          
         
There is no place for the...

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Categories: imagery, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,



Premium Member Paper Heart Mirror
"The beauty you see in me 
--is a reflection of you" :-)

I want you to cut out
a paper heart, of any hue

Doesn't matter if you're...

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Categories: analogy, heart, imagery, inspirational,

Premium Member Surreality Of Girlish Dreams
The girl and her smile straddle the rainbow
neon hair the fluid cascades of northern lights
seafoam cloak the ripples outgrown by the shore
she adores the breeze...

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Categories: dream, fantasy, fun, imagery,

Bookshelf
Biographies of different kinds,
Orwell with Atwood, intertwined,
Old books, new books, a thousand rhymes,
Keeping their words, holding those lines,
Singing caged birds, sit whistling chimes,
Histories, mysteries, marking...

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Categories: books, history, imagery, metaphor,

WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS
WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS


In the delicious womb of all beginnings 
we learnt to giggle electrons
to bear all things 
without nusturtiums, pink lilies or doughnuts 
warm...

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Categories: imagery, allegory, creation, extended metaphor,



Space Suit
Trapped in my space suit
Tied down to the launching pad
Terrorized by the rocket
Paralyzed to the surface
The cold surface of my skin
Basks in the judgmental sun

Strapped...

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Categories: imagery, anxiety, confusion, extended metaphor,

Blame
It simmers. This constant invisible, hovering 
like a wasp in the forever periphery threatening 
lightning strike yellows, sudden and unbidden. It spills
and spools, down into...

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Categories: imagery, analogy,

Rain
Sitting by the window drinking my coffee
Watching the rain falling from dull leaden skies.
It’s as if a gray drape is drawn about me
And I no...

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Categories: imagery, peace, solitude,

Premium Member La-Di-Da
They all pranced through some broad-like avenue
and they've placed apart from each other's course
proved they stood full of airs and graces view
from cameras balanced by...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: imagery, allusion, appreciation, change, character,

Premium Member Burning Paper Houses
Slowly creeping out of winter 
Would it ever be the same 
If I showed up at your door 
Out of breath, out of line 
With...

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Categories: betrayal, extended metaphor, imagery,

Premium Member I Have an Audience
Cobwebs,
settle on my tongue, 
lines of sodden caramel, 
stick in their formation, clapping,
to each considered fiction,
protruding from,
my gum.
...

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Categories: confidence, fear, identity, imagery,

The Stillness of Silence
For few days between the shaking and shattering of my consciousness, 
The soft arms of Silence 
Wrap around my aching torso 
And pretend to soothe...

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© Kie West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: imagery, anger, bible, body, change,

Dance
Cosmic dance - wear your dancing shoes....

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Categories: beauty, fantasy, humanity, imagery,

Premium Member Unseaworthy
Unseaworthy

I creak like an old ferry 
coming in to meet the wharf
mindful of less agile passengers

but like a wayward skiff
my thoughts soon override the pier
bounce...

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Categories: age, imagery, metaphor,

Cavern Calls
It's like I'm in a cave,
pitch black
with the echoes of each footstep reverberating across the walls,
sounding like a thousand footsteps,
all behind me
where am I,
am I...

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© Ash Miller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: imagery, depression, extended metaphor, fear,


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