There was a protest in my bodyMy 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
To Being Waters Of GodTo 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 : swanhaiku : 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 shiftIn 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
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: HerWhen 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 washI 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
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
A DOVED SHELLA 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
TO POETIC REAPINGTO 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 riddleIf 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 BecomingYou 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
So spake simple SimonTruth 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 Moldmade 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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