Metaphor Lyric Poems

I see no sign of forced entry...
just copper suns and cornflower blue,
have you been here all this time?
I don't remember inviting you,
and now all my...

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It's rare that most would call me a hot head
I am usually the coolest cucumber instead
I have no tells, so their heads don't swell
and I...

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Burned by dawn of brand new light
I drift back into primal night
to find upon my dreams a dance
in wait to be
restored by chance.
...

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The girl with the looking glass
  Is walking down the stairs
 Daintly steps,happy lass
 A girl with zero cares

The girl tumbles down 
 The...

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I settle not 
within the belly 
of the tempest
nor shall I surrender
to the hounds of hellebore 
foreshadowing the darkest whims 
I can only bare to...

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Have I not yet awoke,
since last I wandered bare, 
in fields of bergamot and smoke,
and spring morning’s air,
blows a little more brilliant,
holding her prayer,
in my...

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SAMADHI

I am the Void
                   and THE ALL
I...

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The bass line slips,
in melody of you,
rhythm’s eclipse,
control askew, 
glass mouths cling,
to every line,
whispering, 
sublime, tipsy light,
in our eyes,
of crescent bright,
lullabies.
...

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I'm an African son
From my mother's womb
I brought the colour of chocolate 
To be the son of soil

All strong, all articulate 
Born skilled, born the...

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Protected under this banner
Protected under this roof
Protected by a vow of silence
Protected by the truth 
Protected from the mayhem 
Protected from the law
Protected from what...

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Do not now weep for me,
My rivers run clear,
Sangfroid creeps over sea,
No storm shall I fear.
 
Wherefore art thou, my love?
Trees of oak lie bare,
Naked...

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I'm an emerald
echo of earth's
caterpillar, a
camouflaging
hiatus of muse
midst karmic rainstorms.
Enslaved to jealous
stars flaming within 
infernal wings,
I yearn to spellbind
sacred heaven's throne, 
chasing subconscious 
liberty in...

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Stagnated sin stared straight out to sea
Seeking a scape subdued of such scintillation 
Stars she said should not share the same air

Superstitions shaped in slumber...

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You hold in your hands the sun and the moon
But appear to me so clouded in gloom
Always poised to shed another tear
There must be something...

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Before now, I saw you my reaper, the mirror of me
Spitting insolent bile any time I'd spend a penny or three
Simultaneously scrutinising every crooked line...

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