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Metaphor Life Poems

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

Premium Member The Third Wind
1st wind, childhood
2nd wind, jobs, career
3rd wind, elder life.

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Categories: adventure, life, meaningful, metaphor,

Premium Member codependency
light …

and dark -
shadow and bright
are diametrically opposed
and intricately interdependent
we must learn to not fear the dark
for it holds the same delight, the same color
the...

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Categories: analogy, dark, life, light,
Premium Member On The Right Trail To Right End
Do I remember when...

Better breezes blew
Cleaner waters flowed
Teasing memory so... 

For I can hear them in quiet special times… can you?
Softly now, in your own...

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Categories: life, age, dream, future, humanity,
Premium Member Life Living Travels
Through the many days
Up and down marking each their hours
So do minds sail their curious course.

With each weighed anchor leaving swirling trails
Showing the world what...

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Categories: adventure, dream, life, metaphor,
Premium Member Beneath the branches
You'll find me under the stars
Beneath the branches of a willow tree
Longing for something 
That'll never be seen
2 parts slave
1 part free
Forgotten by lovers
Forgotten by...

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© Roger Harp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, extended metaphor, life,

SHE
She is a Pacific ocean 
Tranquil from outside
tumultuous from with in
 
         Shallow it seems from the...

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Categories: life, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Premium Member THE PATH WELL TRAVELLED - POTD
POTD 23 Mar 2024 

THE PATH WELL TRAVELLED.

Two paths diverged, and I was thrown by doubts I had never known
To my left, thickly overgrown, was...

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Categories: inspirational, journey, life, metaphor,
Premium Member A Pale Image of A New Life
Teresa of Ávila
Dreamt the passion of God.

A physical fire 
Burned an image of his power.

An image I envisioned was one so dull 
Full of pain
A...

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Categories: life, angst, anxiety, longing, metaphor,
Premium Member Confluence
“Forget injuries,
         never forget kindnesses.”
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Categories: extended metaphor, life, wisdom,
Premium Member On Wholism Understanding
To move, a person crawls, then walks.

Two wheels
A frame with a seat
That same person

Takes the 3 and works them together
Into a bike.

Aha!
To move, hop on,...

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Categories: life, adventure, creation, dream, high
Premium Member my gifts
my gifts are 
              many
bestowed upon me 
    ...

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Categories: life, encouraging, extended metaphor, humanity,
Premium Member Shipwrecked
Lost upon the waves,
Ship splinters 'neath storm's fury,
Sky merges with sea.
Island sands embrace my plight—
Hope blooms in the heart of night....

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Categories: life, boat, sea,
Morals
moral compass - needle moving erratically...

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Categories: life, conflict, deep, extended metaphor,
The Gift Box
I was handed a beautiful gift box
On my twentieth birthday. 
A bold scripted message was waving me to the right. 
It was beautiful!

The gift box...

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Categories: life, beauty, blessing, devotion, growing
Premium Member Paradise Is Falling
the lawns are strewn in paradise
roses stained, unsweetened
beauty is bleeding
can we lick these festering sores?

my days are alchemy
as I exhaust to turn a gold
and paradise...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, life, mental

Book: Shattered Sighs