Long Metaphor Poems
Long Metaphor Poems. Below are the most popular long Metaphor by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Metaphor poems by poem length and keyword.
This is Happy Land, The World's Playground, lyrics
"Welcome to the playground"
'Ring around the roses. Ring around the roses.
Ring around the roses. Ring around the roses.'
Jack the ripper, he slept with a whore, and became deadly ill
While his soulmate Jill became...
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Categories:
metaphor, birthday, conflict, culture, dark, death, drug, fantasy,
Form:
Narrative
Epigrams
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch
To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Burch
Conformists of a feather
flock together.
—Michael...
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Categories:
bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, wisdom, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Currents
Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...
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Categories:
assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Vacuum
Vacuum
by Michael R. Burch
Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...
leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are unable to know
that once intrigued us so.
Come then, let us...
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Categories:
education, extended metaphor, farewell, first love, graduation,
Form:
Free verse
Juxtapositions of Soul
Sponsor : Regina Macintosh
submission : 2/7/25
_____________________
embedded in avatar’s
sequential chromosomes
novel_sprite_ageless___BIRTHED
Soul protected simultaneously ...
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Categories:
allusion, change, character, deep, extended metaphor, growth,
Form:
Epic
Self Reflections
SELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Instruction
Instruction
by Michael R. Burch
Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.
Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset
of night is in the despairing skies;
each hut shuts its bright bewildered eyes.
The...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness, hope, hyperbole, i
Form:
Pastoral
Poems About Poems Vi
Poems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.
The...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Icarus
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
See
See
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...
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Categories:
metaphor, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Ancient Haiku
These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...
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Categories:
culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
You Never Listened
You Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night the stars
shone, brightening the tears
in her eyes palely fetching...
You...
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Categories:
baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
No Mark
No Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...
telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...
here where you have...
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Categories:
break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
Political Artistry
Brilliant writers
have recommended to younger students,
to only write if they cannot live without doing so.
Elder successful icons of artistic expression,
dance,
voice,
drama,
sculptors
have similarly advised apprentices,
do not do as I have done
unless you could do naught else.
But what...
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Categories:
metaphor, art, beauty, health, leadership, parents, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your Mouth
The Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a...
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Categories:
candy, love, metaphor, moon, romantic love, sweet,
Form:
Sonnet
Free Verse Ii
Nucleotidings
by Michael R. Burch
“We will walk taller!” said Gupta,
sorta abrupta,
hand-in-hand with his mom,
eyeing the A-bomb.
“Who needs a mahatma
in the aftermath of NAFTA?
Now, that was a disaster,”
cried glib Punjab.
“After Y2k,
time will spin out of control anyway,”
flamed...
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Categories:
metaphor, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form:
Free verse
Radiance, For Dylan Thomas
Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but feels its meaning—
the...
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Categories:
metaphor, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
Come Down, For Harold Bloom
Come Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Poems V
Poems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
A Vain Word
A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
Bergfried
I. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
God As Brown As An Egg
If God is EggWhite
then Tao is His embryonic EarthYolk.
Why would you say such a confusing and silly thing?
What is the difference between a Paradise Tree of Life and Death
and a Great Chain of Being?
Is this...
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Categories:
metaphor, earth, god, health, history, motivation, power, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Myth, After Dylan Thomas
Myth, after Dylan Thomas
by Michael R. Burch
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and sighing, complete,
waiting, lain in a low...
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Categories:
metaphor, autumn, faith, grief, life, myth, october, september,
Form:
Verse
Everyday Christians
I would imagine Adam Smith's invisible cooperative economic
self-and-Other-investment hand,
at least during Christian Sunday morning services,
looked and sounded and felt very much
like the One Invisibly-Organic-Holistic-Enlightened MindBody of Christ.
I would further imagine
both he and George Washington,
at least...
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Categories:
metaphor, body, christian, culture, earth, health, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
A Wisp of Thought
There was a glimpse of time unknown to man
The things none may ever describe
All wrapped within this wall of thoughts
For if a moment of my thoughts are clear
They are not my thoughts at all
Never again...
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Categories:
beautiful, dream, grief, lonely, lost, metaphor, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse