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Metaphor Imagism Poems

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

cotton slit'n drool

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Categories: extended metaphor,

no string bikini

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      she knows better

        mine frenetic
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Categories: allusion, extended metaphor, sensual,

az if you'd hid

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       that spruce 'tiz 'bout
              six...

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Categories: allusion, beautiful, blessing, extended

early vernaltography

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                 the heavy night's
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Categories: allusion, beauty, extended metaphor,

SWAN


I am the swan
   with a broken wing —
Not knowing where
   my old flock has gone.
I drift now amidst
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Categories: angel, bird, flower, imagery,

don't blink

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        Look at hern

   In yourn cerebrum'z
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Categories: december, extended metaphor, imagery,

Quiet on Silhouette

Florid banshees recoiled, neck and hankering sneer.

A succinctly exuberant suggestion when selective.

Came on, fell flat with laconic ornamentation.

A miniature jaunt, interment; glove comparted.

Pin-striped foxtails attuned...

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Categories: dedication, devotion, endurance, extended

Peace In Action

Police lady kneels in prayer for peace* against echoing bombshells
Babe sleeps midst quietude inside mother’s womb.

*Philippians 4:7 ...The peace of God, which passeth all understanding,...

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Categories: christian, faith, god, imagery,

Some More Spider Plant Verses


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coral sunset warm
mother's fish curry

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attic
childhood memories dusted

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if petrichor were petaled 
jasmine-scented night 

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broken cistern
wafer-thin heart

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fast city life
smoky haze

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23rd March 2023...

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Categories: image, metaphor,

Bantu

Neighbor's gossip carried like stones in the wind.
 Glass houses shatter.

3/22/23
Contest: Write Bantus Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Suzanne Delaney...

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Categories: betrayal, metaphor,

Spider Plants

Spider Plants
Twirling, striped summer dresses....

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Categories: imagery, metaphor,

Nocturnal

a hibernating bear
          in the dead of winter
during the day,
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Categories: animal, day, metaphor, nature,

Pathogen

fractured; the angry march
to I’s nexus

red, not gold, tracks.. wired to
perfect black

catastrophic chiroptera
see this cornucopia -

what plenty?...

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Categories: analogy, drug, metaphor, scary,

Willows

WILLOWS

Willow rise and flourish —
A verdant contrast
To summer’s sun-blanched sky —
Lifting your branches ever high,
But then curving, draping 
In arcs on down, with your leaves
So...

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Categories: identity, metaphor, nature, passion,

A Thousand Hours In the Day

cascading waterfall
     of moments
            slow
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Categories: imagery, metaphor, time, woman,