Metaphor. Poems | Examples

thuh bard'z winter tale 'nightmare'

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                                                         wool
                                                   twill weave
                                                    cardiganz 
                                                  harem pants
                                                        boots
                                                      hoodiez
                                                    aran coats
                                                        dents
Categories: metaphor., anxiety, clothes, extended metaphor,
Form: Epigram

Romantic conflict


Mist is deliberate veil
Just to notice 
If the eyes risk 
Entering to meet 
To greet and embrace 
The face wearing
A dotted lace 
Mulling to reveal 
Knotted thoughts 
Those plots 
Of dense stories 
Ivories of memory 
Glory of the sun
We used to build up 
From the point of 
The startup 
Until the plates and cups
Would get satiated 
And the golden dust 
of the pulverized sun
Would turn into 
The moon of contentment 

I know my dear 
That won't happen 
Because you're hesitant 
At the very entrance 
Of the mystery 
Ignoring the filigree beyond 
Waiting to dawn
  ______________

12 September 2025
Categories: metaphor., conflict, emotions, image, imagery,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberGEESE a Mother Nature teaches poem Reposting

Mother Nature Teaches              
                 via
               Geese
   m  i  g  r   a   t  i  t  i  n  g
              once again
                intuitively
                   know
               One = All
              weak + well
                vital      vigor
              flight         soaring
             long             with             
         wings                  kept           
  tip-to-tip                      support 
    uplift                             motion
onward                                for All
Categories: metaphor., bird, humanity, metaphor, uplifting,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn Hushes

Mind's minute mirage may muffle,
But biding by blinding brings burns.
Severely she'll sunder, so scuffle,
'Til tomorrow, tomorrow turns.
Categories: metaphor., anxiety, conflict, depression, extended
Form: Alliteration

MOM

Maybe I've never been enough for you,
On the occasion you speak the truth,
My heart gets broken over and over again.

Maybe if I looked like her,
Of course we would only know if I were,
Maybe that would make it harder to leave.

My heart goes out to those like me, 
Others who feel like they can't breath,
Muddled by the presence of a wicked thing.

Maybe one day I'll get out,
Out of the darkness there's no doubt,
My spirit will be free and you will have no hold on me.
Categories: metaphor., daughter, metaphor, mom, mother,
Form: Free verse


Oranges of the afternoon



Hospital waiting room in the afternoon 
Tired flowers looking after the patients
Saplings emerging from the interaction 
Oranges in the hands of the sun as it sets 
       
  ________________________
              11 September 2025
Categories: metaphor., emotions, image, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Let's fly out



Lost in writing iambic couplets, the moon and sea 
Sounds of whispers from between long eyelashes 
Waves moving from side to side, a provocation 
Quick, let's fly out, chirping the wild ducks 
   
                    ________________________

                        11 September 2025
Categories: metaphor., image, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Gut Lords

Sewers are strewn with corpses of carrots,
nectarine skulls and peach sloughs
fermenting in the arteries of cities.

The gutters gargle with grape entrails,
mango marrow, and the pulp of privilege
nourishing the bloated bellies of bins.

The concrete congeals with tomato stains
squished coriander and the puree of parsley
nurturing the mildew that murals the walls.

The pipes pulse with dairy despair,
lactose laments and souring milk memories
sustaining fat-lined steel bowels

The dumpsters groan with crushed caviar
sprawled sushi and weeping wagyu
feeding the fungus that froths metal maw.

The Gut lords, gluttonous and godlike,
swallow civilization in silver spoonfuls,
excreting empires into rusted cisterns.
Categories: metaphor., metaphor,
Form: Free verse

For an autumn dawn



For only a few days, a sojourn 
With the mountains or by a waterfall 
In search of an autumn dawn 
Amidst the mist on the blades of grass 
           _______________________

              10 September 2025
Categories: metaphor., image, imagery, metaphor, morning,
Form: Free verse

The 6th Chord


Upon witnessing the abrupt sunbeams 
Waves anew in the two ancient ponds
Bears and stallions from the black frame 
The major sixth chord in the piano 
         
              ______________________

                  September 10, 2025
Categories: metaphor., desire, freedom, image, imagery,
Form: Free verse

BLOOD MOON AT HILLVIEW

From my Hillview home beside the Ruby Gate,
I watched the blood moon rise,
its red fire spilling across the Bay of Bengal.

The sea turned into a vast mirror of flame,
the mountains stood hushed,
their green shoulders brushed by crimson light.

Karnaphuli flowed like a molten ribbon,
carrying whispers of old songs to the shore.

Not alone on the hill,
I felt the city breathing beneath me,
yet only the moon kept me company.

Its scarlet face leaned close,
as if the heavens bent toward Chittagong.
In that hour,
I was both witness and keeper of the glow.

And with my brother Shimul by my side,
We sealed the night in memory, unforgettable and wide
Categories: metaphor., beauty, butterfly, culture, earth,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberheartspeak

tho' I am but the sparrow's twining strains
      the palette and the pen of whisp'ring souls
         I'm sweeter still if dashed upon the shoals
   or bleeding from the hem of day's remains
tho' I may weep from all a scoundrel feigns
      for what each soldier's dying breath extols
         it's grander even morning's meadow rolls
   as spindrift tossed upon the grassy plains
oh I am found the coursing thru all things
      as warm within your veins, as sunset's sky
         my constancy to love and swoon and hate
   to stir in hopes or see what passion brings
so guard me close or open me and cry ...
      I'll bound and thrum and patiently ... await.





Copyright © 2020 Gregory Richard Barden ( rewrite )
Categories: metaphor., analogy, heart, metaphor,
Form: Italian Sonnet

Baby Bird

don't blame the kid
baby birds are one wide mouth for what their parents spit
Categories: metaphor., animal, baby, bird, family,
Form: Free verse

River in the poet's eyes




The water-filled pitcher is settled in your waist 
Walk easy, the road at the early hour is almost empty 
River in the poet's eyes is watching your movement 
Vocabulary from his heart is making a sketch 

             _______________________
           
                9 September 2025
Categories: metaphor., image, imagery, metaphor, moving
Form: Free verse

Dormant hair-bun

Field with display of green catkins in the candlelight

From the hidden chamber the dormant hair-bun loosened

Foam and current from the sea through the fidgety foliage

Night in a machination to summon the lightning clouds

                    ___________________

                       September 9, 2025
Categories: metaphor., emotions, image, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

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