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Metaphor Poems | Examples of Metaphor Poetry

There was a protest in my body
My heart The voice Each beat a chant Refusing to be silenced Each beat getting louder An act of defiance It would not be quiet Our skeleton The foundation The vessel which carried the rebellion It's the ground that doesn't crumble Even as we march It doesn't take the attention It remains humble Knowing that it was not bigger than the movement The blood...

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Categories: body, discrimination, metaphor, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Being Waters Of God
To Being Waters Of God Wars evaporate the lives God gives us to live; but peace hydrates them:- It’s time for us to hydrate and dissolve life’s worldwide wars:- ...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, analogy, introspection, life,
Form: Tanka



A Steelhead Forced to Live in a Puddle
His spawning would be free and dedicated to those that were beholding of his challenges, those that began ahead of this time, those that look out beyond this point in time. He would be placed carefully with absolute purity in a diminishing amount of support. The fight was only in terms of molecular structure comparable to...

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Categories: metaphor,
Form: Free verse
haiku : hiku : swan
haiku : swan —————- feathers of grace white glide across waters of time swallow dragonflies hiku ~~~~ f e athe R s Of GRACE ...

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Categories: metaphor, allusion, change, color, extended
Form: Haiku
a joker's shift
In colors he bloomed, with a big red nose, He chose the job where laughter grows. There he stood in rounded boots, With a grin of mischief and playful hoots. Dressed like a child, his costume loose, A floppy hat, a bright jumpsuit. Then came the rain--it cleared the crowd, While the magician watched, silent and proud. And through the downpour, something broke...

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Categories: character, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Drink in the Dawn
Ahh… drink in the dawn… waking moments, delicious … savor the bluebird’s song ...

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Categories: bird, joy, metaphor, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Random Thoughts 2: Her
When I saw her I became aware Of the Earth's gravity And my mass tethering my body To this rock in space...

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Categories: first love, longing, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Random Thoughts 1: Face wash
I wash my face twice a day Once vigorously As if I am exercising demons Residing in my pores And once gently In circular, sweeping movements Like I am washing away the crust of tears That have come to settle on my cheeks...

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Categories: extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member BEING IN GOD'S DELIVERENCE
BEING IN GOD’S DELIVERANCE Be of pregnant faith, Its waters breaking daily; Healings being born: Fertilized hope delivers. Nothing can abort God’s grace:- ...

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Categories: allegory, encouraging, extended metaphor,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member A DOVED SHELL
A DOVED SHELL A slow-moving shell, caboose-like crawling in peace: Cute little turtle:- ...

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Categories: metaphor, animal, cute, environment, extended
Form: Haiku
Premium Member TO POETIC REAPING
TO POETIC REAPING In the mind’s garden, the poem of poems, germinates in its fertile soil: The poem’s ripening word-fruits seeded with enlightenment:- May poetic grace be reaped from rhythmic sows of flowing guidance:- May poetic words be cultivated throughout all of the seasons:- In the mind’s garden may inspirational grace forever blossom: And may encouraging light ever be sun-shined:- Praises be to God for fertilizing my mind’s poetic garden:- ...

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Categories: creation, extended metaphor, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
I am a riddle
If your misunderstood maybe God just left your definition out. In an attempt to clarify something . no one would understand. You are a riddle, for what its worth, what is a riddle if not a question. longing for an answer. Some intellectual level that many wouldn't understand....

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Categories: god, loneliness, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Temple of My Becoming
You did not rush the ruins of me. You entered gently, Like a prayer whispered In the hollows of a broken chapel. Your touch- Not just desire, But devotion. You traced every scar As though it were scripture. We did not collide, We communed- Your breath a psalm, My sighs an amen Rising from the altar of my ache. Where others only sought fire, You brought warmth. Where I had gone...

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Categories: metaphor, appreciation, devotion, imagery, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member So spake simple Simon
Truth is known when ego is shorn but what’s imbibed, we can’t pass on, for how may sunlight be revealed, to the deluded who shun dawn? Soul’s light within is not revealed, unless our heart’s resolve is steeled, discarding dark desires mundane, to embrace power God does wield. Pitter patter of falling rain, moments when fears are to rest lain, entwines soul with the universe, freeing...

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Categories: extended metaphor, muse, spiritual,
Form: Rubaiyat
All I hear is Mold
made out of clay to fit a mold not always molded how we would want to be well, most of us share the same mold but the mold gets boring for society we cry and laugh, our emotions are bold suffering will not take away your integrity walking in a straight like just how we are told leaning away might cause...

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Categories: analogy, beautiful, metaphor, mystery,
Form: Rhyme

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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