Metaphor Leaf Poems
These Metaphor Leaf poems are examples of Leaf poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Leaf Metaphor poems written by international poets.
Leafthoughts rested
ego falls
from tree of life
Self shines
as God’s light
in cave of heart...
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Categories:
leaf, extended metaphor, spiritual,
LeafAh! There it breaks
On the ground soiled
Abandoned
Foolish foot tearing that unmissed
Not knowing the destruction
Lost
Once it lived up above
Now fallen down
Gone
Before it had a purpose
A bringer...
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Categories:
leaf, extended metaphor, freedom, lost,
The Tragic Life of a LeafYou start out green and new, as a brand new shoot, nurtured by a ‘Loving Mother Tree,’ and surrounded by lush, growing sibling leaves all
In...
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Categories:
leaf, age, change, death, metaphor,
The Leaf of MeA dislodged leaf my being floats away
In the serene stream of contemplation
From life's turbulent torrent
Meandering in the cacophony current.
To a remote placid cobalt lake...
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leaf, introspection, life, metaphor,
A Leaf, a Life and the Meaning There Ofbeyond the road curve ahead I do not know,
we are still far and distant from winter snow,
autumn has sprayed green leaves some yellow, some red,
as...
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Categories:
leaf, autumn, death, earth day,
LeafLeaf
Drifting
Slowly down,
Life’s ever journey
Toward the ending knell
Quite meaningful metaphor,
“Comes the time for life-laying down.”
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SECOND PLACE WINNER
Written May 31, 2022
Submitted to “Pyramids” Poetry Contest
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Categories:
leaf, death, life, metaphor,
As a Dry LeafAs fallen dry leaf
by the wind was swept away,
that's how I took my life...
all love and all the time,
...
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Categories:
leaf, allegory, allusion, analogy, life,
A LeafBellow the universe,
i am only
a loose leaf
...
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Categories:
leaf, allegory, allusion, imagery, life,
Categories:
leaf, metaphor,
AnthocyaninDancing upon the shifting crystal stage
The leaf is destined to dance the dance of the river
Aimlessly floating, turning, twirling
Its petiole dampened by the clear water
Washing...
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Categories:
leaf, autumn, change, life, metaphor,
Gold Leaf Is Burning Very Bright By Osip MandelstamGold leaf is burning very bright
on Christmas trees and bush is hiding
toy wolves, they're looking through the night
with eerily eyes, their look is biting.
Oh, my...
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Categories:
leaf, emotions, feelings, metaphor, poets,
To a Fallen Leaf In Waving ShadowsA little tittering bird
pecking in snow? No.
A little brown leaf
stuck in snow—Shivering;
In the cold wind,
strange indeed;
the eyes seeming
to see and ears hear
silent sounds softly
streaming
in...
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Categories:
leaf, 9th grade, analogy, imagery,
A Yellow LeafThe leaf turgid, green and proud
while seated on a branch of tree
turns into soul of trodden below
as human soul of the once proud
is buried,...
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Categories:
leaf, fate, metaphor,
The Oak LeafThe Oak Leaf
Tenaciously upon its bough
The wintered, withered leaf
Sustains the Southern wind somehow
Like breakers on a reef.
Each naked limb...a syncopate...
In "New Orleans Rag"...
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Categories:
leaf, allegory, life, love, metaphor,
One Lonely LeafThe Autumn breezes turned the leaves to gold,
They all stood their ground, and refused to fall
But then the first freeze of Winter took hold
Icy winds...
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Categories:
leaf, metaphor, nature,