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Metaphor Irony Poems

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

Premium Member Enough with the Limericks
    Enough with the limericks tonight
    Like a ven’rable poet I need write 
     ...

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Categories: humor, irony, poetry,

Premium Member Overboard
She is
but a passing shadow
flitting across the moonlit sea

Wandering waves
roaming their ripples
in search of her next
ship to board

Steered by starlight
she journeys to fresh horizons
constellations
mapped many...

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Categories: angst, blue, irony, metaphor,
Premium Member Time 

I am Time,
I do not know
Where I’ve come from
Nor do I know whither I am going
I only know that I started in the past
And am...

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© MB Farookh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: irony, birth, death, extended metaphor,
Premium Member Discombobulation

Publicly 
advertising 
he doesn't tickle
her fancy.
If that''s no lie,
then why 
seek him out 
surreptitiously? 
Her terms of endearment 
flow like honey off her lips,
but what...

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Categories: confusion, irony, metaphor, mystery,
Premium Member as the crow flies
the universe was not built in straight lines ~ only humans cut corners

By
David Kavanagh...

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Categories: irony, meaningful, metaphor,

Premium Member The Carcass
In this landscape, lies a nest 
made of brown brittle leaves, 
cracked asphalt, 
and tire flattened filters
this creature, stands 
broad shouldered and stupid
with a flat...

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Categories: extended metaphor, irony, nostalgia,
Premium Member Revenge Kisses and Afternoon Shams
Have I failed you as a man?
Our only communication was what washed up on shore 
But there's so much space between the ocean floor and...

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Categories: irony, emotions, extended metaphor, fear,
Premium Member Sleeping eyes
The depth in which 
We see reality 
Can only be 
As deep 
As the mind is open
We search for peace 
But yet we sleep
With our...

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© Roger Harp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: destiny, fear, identity, irony,
Premium Member Komorebi Tourist in Paradise
Tradewinds strummed the cocoa nutter's palm fingers
the sun crept down to its packed trunk
overburdened routes tangled tunnels underground
the sun snuck below through the subtropic shaft...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: irony, allusion, analogy, change, extended
Premium Member Parts
I'm an artist without a muse to capture 
Painting with no brush or sense of the soul
Sparking fire without a fuse or ember
Still I perceive...

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Categories: irony, art, confidence, creation, identity,
Premium Member The Successful Economist
The Successful Economist

                      Intermittent...

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Categories: irony, age, angst, business, extended
Premium Member The Naturalist
an unwashed plate sits
no one around to clean it~~
smiles as roach sponges...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: irony, extended metaphor, imagery, insect,
The Thief
One day, a petty thief 
Stole a piece of bread.
She dashed away in a spiff
“Stop her!”, the trader yelled.

Along came a couple who,
Upon hearing the...

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Categories: irony, 4th grade, 5th grade,
My Compassion
My compassion visited me today
I welcomed it into my home 
And asked how was their day

My compassion told me 
How wonderful it was 
He told...

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© Ezra Cook  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anger, irony, life, mental
Poisoned Milk and Honey
If  he "she"refuses to grab poisoned milk and honey 
He "she"can be called names here and there daily....

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Categories: africa, irony, metaphor,

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