Ways of providenceThere will surely be a guide ~
charting my path,
protecting,
and leading me
to my destined destination in life.
As if it were a promised payment
God made to me from heaven.
An invisible hand
tucked out from an invisible historical tucker,
In a canoe on a river ~
gently rowing me along its flow.
Many near-deaths averted,
Many of life's debts miraculously...
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Categories:
appreciation, destiny, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Random ThoughtsWhen random thoughts are bombarding a mind,
Cohesiveness among them is hard to find.
Metaphors and symbols just like in one’s dreams,
Even what is seen, is not what it seems.
One must not resist, just let the thoughts flow.
Look for the patterns and see what they show.
They show the direction, but rarely the conclusion,
There isn’t much reason, just...
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Categories:
metaphor, creation, dream, how i
Form: Rhyme
On the Precipice of the Midnight HourThe clock at tick-tock - appears a flower
On the Precipice of the Midnight Hour.
Green eyes scan the darkest blue; and brown eyes,
On the Precipice of the Midnight Hour.
Fuzzy figures all about the dusk-ing
On the Precipice of the Midnight Hour.
Brown spots on leaves; and Autumn wrinkled skin,
On the Precipice of the Midnight Hour.
Fateful showers begin with...
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Categories:
imagery, metaphor,
Form: Ghazal
After Clouds DepartShe thinned to vapour, blue as longing's edge,
while we searched skywards, calling her lost name.
Wind replied in whispers no one could catch–
just hollow notes strung on a frayed thread.
Now dusk repeats her gesture: palms upturned,
spilling light where her shadow once poured.
We drink the rain, still tasting her farewell.
...
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Categories:
metaphor, imagination, independence day, inspiration,
Form: Verse
PHANTOM LIMB(Verse 1)
This empty room still hums your favorite song,
Sunlight cuts the dust where your laugh belonged.
I trace the cracks in every worn-out tile,
Searching for your shadow one more mile.
(Chorus)
**I can still feel you like a phantom limb—**
A ghost in every room,...
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Categories:
metaphor, heartbroken, independence day, inspiration,
Form: Lyric
Graphite Steps
My soles press soft
into sidewalks. I leave
a trail of graphite steps
They etch out my first sentence—
a diary in crayon, a novel in margins
Time sharpens the graphite steps
I stroll through my city growing younger
White tiles paved over the dirt path I loved
but look: beneath the cracks, faintly traced,
ghosts of my graphite steps
Size 5 kneels where...
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Categories:
metaphor, childhood, city, meaningful, memory,
Form: Free verse
Life is a battlefieldThis life is a fierce battlefield,
Little did I know before my birth,
My weapons should have been better honed,
So no earthly force could conquer me.
Friends I made while I was nobody,
Turned to foes when I sought to be somebody,
Those I loved with all my heart and soul
Blew pepper in my eyes when vision blurred.
Deceit...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Jukebox RequiemANGIE, that last slow dance in smoky haze—
you slipped UNDER MY THUMB like twilight’s ache.
The Rolling Stones crooned fate through tangled days;
I tried to PAINT IT BLACK for mercy’s sake.
But YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT—truth stings—
just loaded TUMBLIN DICE in neon towns,
chasing HONKY TONK WOMEN on borrowed wings
while WILD HORSES dragged dreams to...
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Categories:
imagery, inspirational, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
TremorBefore thought–the heart: a struck bell's hum,
in the chest's dark chapel. No word. Only thrum
that echoes the void where meaningwill climb.
Is this the soul's raw conference? A draft.
of prayer–unwritten–lifting like a raft
on some deep tide. Not speech. Not yet. But chime
of nerve and grace. Mind fumbles, blind, to trace
this pulse–intent–before it wears...
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Categories:
imagery, inspirational, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Incandescentnoon’s furnace: asphalt shimmers; air—thick, slow—
cracks open. cicadas drill through stagnant gold.
a sprinkler’s hiccup-hiss: the pavement’s glow
un/curls in steam. the hydrant’s shout: uncontrolled.
children shriek!—a liquid burst of now,
popsicle rivers bleed; knuckles—sticky, green—
cling to handlebars. shadows stretch: thin, lean
across chain-link. each blade of grass—laid down—
bakes. but dusk? a match-strike: fireflies!—
the yard exhales jasmine; stars prick the...
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Categories:
meaningful, metaphor, poetry, symbolism,
Form: Sonnet
Beautiful doesn't mean SafeThe Sun is pretty–Yes ,we know,
It makes the sky and flowers glow.
But look too long, and you will find,
It's beauty scars. It's strikes you blind.
We're taught to chase what shines the most,
To the love ones who shine like ghosts.
But not all gold is made to keep ,
some glitters loud and cuts too deep.
Not...
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Categories:
imagery, inspirational, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Midnight ChrrysallsThis clinging dark
not death, not bloom
stilled in air.
Soft walls resist what dares to come
The skin forgets its former hue,
Will light find purchase there?
A hush before the body breaks,
not wing, not wound, but something near...
The splitting shell reveals a vast, cold, bright despair....
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Categories:
imagery, inspirational, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Other
Shiver Shake Not : Song
pretty or slippery are not my names
no time for docile dolly games
peaceful presence my authenticity aims
ascension not something timidly tame
Chorus : shiver shake not, I have nothing to hide
flowing with life’s lovely tide
if you cannot bear scars and shadows
go elsewhere to see what flavour marrows
sure I hold open portal doors
when lightning...
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Categories:
metaphor, character, emotions, encouraging, extended
Form: Lyric
Beneath the veilYou're ever at my beck and call –
Perfection reflected from my mirror.
On a sail ~
A voyage that carries off my challenges.
All my sorrows and sadness ~
Locked away in your jail,
The yashmak of my despairs and desperation,
Along with all my worries and wailing.
Yet eye-service lurks beneath the veil....
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Categories:
analogy, extended metaphor, imagery,
Form: Other
The Bees of Denial
The world drones on, beyond
this amber membrane
I recline within the waxen chambers—
a sovereign of nectar
enthroned in illusion
Muffled voices leak through honey walls
distorted—like speech submerged in syrup:
“Gone… her mind distills itself…
hallucinations… delusional constructs…”
I attempt to see—
but the hum begins, low
as a beast dreaming in its burrow.
My votaries rise,
spilling gold into my gaze
Sweet venom varnishes my sight—
my...
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Categories:
metaphor, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Metaphor Poems
Read wonderful metaphor poetry on the following sub-topics:
animal, family, friends, football, kids, lion, love, loneliness, moon, nature, yourself
and more.
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Poems Related to Metaphor
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