The many languages of black voicesWe dont have to use our voice to scream
Because a voice isn't just words
It's art, it's our presence, it's how we exist
It's being unapologetically black
Our presence is like the rain after a drought
And the rain nourishes the ground
It's like walking into a room and it's brought back to life
Where once was darkness, has now been...
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Categories:
discrimination, jealousy, metaphor, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
When memory knocks
She knocks on my rib cage
seeking access to my heart again
The knock—the pounding pestle—
taunts, its echo won’t stand ignorance
I hold my knees and cover my ears
as if that’ll keep my walls untampered
I let my flesh wrap me whole—
so tight I might suffocate,
but I cannot breathe outside this
prison, no—this haven
But she’s still here,...
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Categories:
horror, memory, metaphor, scary,
Form: Free verse
In The Waiting Womb ThereofIn The Waiting Womb Thereof
(Apropos Of Poetic Onement)
Thanks for being here with me
in the waiting time of the birthing
flow from the poetic womb thereof:
We mind-pregnant poets have all experienced
that spacing time reality of which poets must be
in waiting for the waiting poetic womb to give birth:-
At times, we’re forced to realize that we, too,...
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Categories:
allegory, extended metaphor, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Barracudaedged teeth grate live bones
ransacked by its spineless bite
red bubbles at sea
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Categories:
animal, betrayal, image, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
Tripping Over Their Clippings
Chicago Cubs stumble their way to another loss tonight
~ tripping over their own press clippings
...
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Categories:
baseball, chicago, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Endgame in ExileI
Eleven years old in Tehran's burning heat—
sleeve rolled high, the Revolutionary Guard's fist
finds my face like a question mark carved in flesh.
A barrel cold against my cheek,
the hammer clicks, planting itself in my chest.
First lesson in the game:
some moves are made for you.
II
Sixteen, sketching battlefields in chalk dust,
bishop takes pawn, knight takes rook,
until the principal's...
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Categories:
metaphor, political,
Form: Free verse
BiteThrobbing, concave marks
adorn my skin—records of
your hunger, sated only by
the meat of
my body.
Though the pain is sweet—craved,
fulfilling—and my blood rushes
to provide you with drink,
my head—detached,
neglected—wanders.
Tell me, if the flesh fell away
like tender rib meat off of the bone—
would you still ache to sink your teeth
into the me
that remained?...
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Categories:
metaphor, allegory, body, confusion, dark,
Form: Free verse
OF THE ESSENCE OF LIFE AND LOVE: Apropos Of 37 Years Of Onderful Onement OnenessOF THE ESSENCE OF LIFE AND LOVE
(Apropos Of 37 Years Of Onderful Onement Oneness)
The essence of you, is sweet life and love;
My dear angel sent from heaven above:-
Whenever I find myself with you,
It seems there is nothing I cannot do:-
Yes, your essence is sweet life and love;
My dear angel sent from heaven above:-
The light you...
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Categories:
metaphor, angel, anniversary, for her,
Form: Rhyme
Unbroken WrenchMy friend comes through and talks to me,
With their stuck nails being all I can see.
Instead of listening further,
I get my wrench and try to loosen the nails,
Trying to make them no longer be a problem.
However, what I couldn’t see,
Was that my wrench was damaging the nails,
The ones in my friend,
And they were only...
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Categories:
metaphor, 10th grade, analogy, extended
Form: Free verse
CELESTIALLY GRACED LOVECELESTIALLY GRACED LOVE
The day has its sun,
And the night, its moon:-
I am blessed to have you,
Each bright day and night:-
Your presence is as the cosmic beauty of God:
Reflecting the shiny, glorious glow of His light:-
As you are my ever glowing sun of my day,
May I ever be your glowing moon of your night:-...
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Categories:
metaphor, analogy, appreciation, beauty, extended
Form: Couplet
Categories:
metaphor, summer,
Form: Haiku
golden laughter
golden husks aglow,
laughter pops beneath the sun,
waves applaud the show....
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Categories:
metaphor, sea, summer,
Form: Haiku
AS IS GOD'S TIME
AS IS GOD'S TIME
Our love is as God’s time be:
Tick tocking eternally:-
I’m yours, and you’re mine;
Our love, God’s gift, sublime:-
I am for you, and you are for me;
Our love is as is God’s time be:-
You are the water of my life’s sea:
Waving and frothing love eternally:-
...
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Categories:
allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Couplet
The Bell Tower That Leaned InI. The Pastor’s Hand
At dawn’s brittle cusp—
he climbs, each step
a nail in time’s coffin
breath ragged
a Psalm torn mid-hymn.
The rope tastes of incense and myrrh—
Liberty’s fracture
braided through its fibers
a wound
that never quite...
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Categories:
metaphor, allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
From Chaos to OrderAt first Chaos became from void borne,
And it stirred the primordial mass,
Before Earth or the Sea or the Sky,
Had a reason to moan or comply,
Then did emerge Ananke above,
Who did give a primordial shove,
Become inevitable to change,
So, the Earth and the Sky be arranged,
And then father time emerged from muss,
Fair Ananke said that there is...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, fantasy, myth,
Form: Sonnet
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,