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In the Webbed Silence
In the webbed corners of my brain
There blooms a sinister flower
Its petals dripping with venom
And thick roots entwined with despair
Begins with a taste, a mere sip
The madness will soon...
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Categories:
metaphor, conflict, dark, emotions, how
Form: Blank verse
a diddy think 'bout a poet's pussiecat
Categories:
humorous, metaphor,
Form: Light Verse
the motherly pine
Categories:
metaphor, mother, nature, parents,
Form: Haiku
Curtain TwitcherChase my tricks of dew
among the narcissi
that sit atop
my window sill
with flits of stolen
galanthus
I pilfered just for you.
I hasten that you answer me
before the moon twitches at her curtains
to sneak a...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, flower, love,
Form: Free verse
FailureHave you ever died, still on your feet?
Did you lay your heart open?
Did it break at their feet?
Did they trample it down?
Did the hurt make you weak?
And how many days will you continue to weep?
Know...
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Categories:
depression, extended metaphor, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Hand Me DownMust morning return so soon?
her hand-me-down haste,
& moth-eaten bloom,
grieves for the rain,
of last night's pour,
but, I still taste,
the petrichor,
dancing,
on my tongue.
...
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Categories:
introspection, memory, metaphor, morning,
Form: Free verse
Angelic
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two...
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Categories:
analogy, emotions, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
metaphor, beautiful, best friend, extended
Form: Burlesque
Hanging on the rope of liesI’m hanging on a rope of lies hanging on for dear life.
I don’t know what got me today but I gotta let go this rope is cutting me, deep in my hands with small glass...
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Categories:
metaphor, anger, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Fighting Fire with MolotovsTight stretched skin, not unlike leather parchment
Adorned with scars and burns and such carvings
Among the colors, red ink's enrichment
Envelops a file cabinet's burnings
Advice from the mental advisory
Suggests that all these thoughts be locked away
In filing...
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Categories:
metaphor, abuse, depression, fire, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
Categories:
beautiful, blessing, extended metaphor,
Form: Romanticism
The FishLaughter trills through fire
Joy is spun on a lyre
Feathers were just growing in
And the bird watched its kin
Playing, scratching, screaming
I want to play!
You're on fire!
Thats what you say
But my nests been made a pyre
Eating, feasting
Food...
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Categories:
metaphor, anger, animal, bullying, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
beautiful, blessing, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
WINTER DAZE-FLY--winter's temperate.
towards cold outside yet it was;
sunny 70° and...
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a fly flew by my;
eyes in awe I wondered O'
whoosh-flutter buzzzz---
~
why? in the dead of,
winter so I spy flutters;
tiny buzzzz whoosh-FlY?
3/13/24
Written words by...
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Categories:
metaphor, analogy, environment, humanity, insect,
Form: Haiku
OverboardShe is
but a passing shadow
flitting across the moonlit sea
Wandering waves
roaming their ripples
in search of her next
ship to board
Steered by starlight
she journeys to fresh horizons
constellations
mapped many moons ago
with no route to a harbor
or home
Yet, a paradox
in...
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Categories:
angst, blue, irony, metaphor,
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.
Definition | What is Metaphor in Poetry?
Poems Related to Metaphor
symbol, image, analogy, similitude, emblem, personification, allegory, hope, metonymy, trope,