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Metaphors
Metaphors penned with psychedelic ink
most times present as imagery, forthright.
But, if they're scanned again- readers may think
a nuance has come forth in a new light.
To say one thing- and mean another brings
a hidden...
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Categories:
appreciation, metaphor, poems, sea,
Form: Sonnet
An Overthinker's TormentThinking and thinking and thinking.
I want to stop going over the memories,
The looping record of agonising nothings.
That's the problem, you see?
It's not a problem to them.
A simple mistake,
So quickly forgiven, and yet,
It lingers like a...
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Categories:
anxiety, confusion, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Life Living TravelsThrough the many days
Up and down marking each their hours
So do minds sail their curious course.
With each weighed anchor leaving swirling trails
Showing the world what the bottom had, then to follow
While highest birds fly singing...
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Categories:
adventure, dream, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
WRITTEN IN PSYCHEDELIC INKWRITTEN IN PSYCHEDELIC INK
Wrongly chosen words convey naught
Creating impressions of the wrong sort
Even when inspiring lines deny empathy
Especially showing contempt for simile
Causing bloody battles to be hard fought
It’s errors despite what has been taught
As...
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Categories:
metaphor, psychological,
Form: Rondeau
Ink Stains Cadence of WordsInk stains and fragmented thoughts
fuse upon lined pages,
a dance of fleeting emotions
and raw revelations.
A symphony of words whispered to the wind,
painting vivid images of love, pain, and resilience.
Poetry, the...
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Categories:
metaphor, creation, freedom, inspiration, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Puzzling RelationshipPuzzling Relationship
Our edges seem so similar
Meant to fit, snuggly together
The tongue of your dry humor
Locks into the Grove of my clever wit
Forming attachments in every aspect of our lives
An image appears of our...
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Categories:
change, divorce, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
I am Lost-contaminatedIt’s hard for me to differentiate between Truth and lies.. it was hard to come to terms with the facts
But right now, the fact is I’m lost
I thought I was smarter i thought...
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Categories:
metaphor, deep, depression, light, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Beneath the branchesYou'll find me under the stars
Beneath the branches of a willow tree
Longing for something
That'll never be seen
2 parts slave
1 part free
Forgotten by lovers
Forgotten by me
Wrapped in a blanket of roots and earth
A pillow...
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Categories:
death, extended metaphor, life,
Form: Free verse
DrunkLove has it's bronze.
I resonded with: ,,what do you mean?? Lukas talk with me!!", he turned around and said: ,, Time is getting near, but, It's nothing worth to give your all", his tears suddenly...
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Categories:
extended metaphor,
Form: McWhirtle
DrunkLove has it's bronze.
I resonded with: ,,what do you mean?? Lukas talk with me!!", he turned around and said: ,, Time is getting near, but, It's nothing worth to give your all", his tears suddenly...
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Categories:
extended metaphor,
Form: McWhirtle
Categories:
metaphor, 7th grade, allusion, extended
Form: Free verse
We all have ladders to climbChanged my mind
and most probably
my spelling and words
quite a lot recently,
thinking we all live
in a simulation and
are bodies are
avatars or emojis,
was watching
high end particle
of love theory.
defo made me think
above me station.
so evolved my spelling
and my...
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Categories:
creation, endurance, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
SHE
She is a Pacific ocean
Tranquil from outside
tumultuous from with in
Shallow it seems from the surface
...
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Categories:
metaphor, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Border-lieA border is a line drawn in the sand
Constantly shifting if you have time to see
A personality is a borderline ebbing
Time ceaselessly flowing us away
One side unreachable as the far shore
The other, all that...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, planet, space,
Form: Free verse
wooden spoon worn smoothwooden spoon worn smooth
calloused hands’ enduring tool
sleeps in a drawer...
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Categories:
age, metaphor, remember,
Form: Haiku
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,