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Animal Metaphor Poems

These Animal Metaphor poems are examples of Metaphor poems about Animal. These are the best examples of Metaphor Animal poems written by international poets.

creature

below the world I sit in silence
an animal among machines...

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Categories: crazy, humanity, identity, metaphor,

A STREAMING SENSATION

Sage moose families
journeying nature’s beauty,
streaming peaceful life:-
Powerful, iconic elk,
Canvassing serenity:-
...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, animal, imagery, inspirational,

Dog of war

You bury your only dog beneath a home of desecrated poppies.
Pup frozen from years of neglect, full of ignorance and stained of regret.
You claw at...

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Categories: metaphor, animal, dark, dog, earth,

Dune Perdue

    Updraft lifts limbs, leaves scurry like mice exposed
    Mother Nature shakes shorebreak, incline imposed
    Gnaws...

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Categories: animal, beach, bird, metaphor,

IN MY SECOND HALF LIFE

Wandering in my darkness of soul
the city cries like a wounded animal
the sky wears a bruised dusk, half-forgotten. 

Neon veins pulse through pavement cracks
a river...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, america, analogy, art,

The Edge Between

The sea whispers to the meadow,
A call unanswered, yet the flock remains.
White lambs, lost in innocence,
Red-streaked where hands have been.

The black ewe stands at the...

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Categories: metaphor, animal, appreciation, introspection, lost,

The Promotion

It was never about the suit,
the charcoal stitching,
the pocket square that folds itself,
the red tie I swore was alive.

At first, it just stood there—
hooves crossed,...

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Categories: analogy, art, extended metaphor,

Strayed Sheep

      
I see the sea.
               ...

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Categories: allusion, animal, extended metaphor,

What the Highest Bidder Forgot to Consider

The house came with ghosts.  
Not the subtle kind, either—no  
wistful sighs or cool drafts,  
just full-blown poltergeist tantrums.  
Cabinets slamming...

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Categories: conflict, metaphor,

Velutinous Lagomorphs-A Halloween Poem

Dreams come clearly as I lie in my bed,
thinking of the creatures alive below me.
I cautiously draw up the comforter edge.
Beneath the mattress,
beneath the sheets,
beneath...

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Categories: animal, humor, metaphor,

The Crow

I looked to the trees and first saw the crow
When it called out it’s voice sounded coarse
He stared for a second, but then flew away
And...

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Categories: metaphor, adventure, animal, bird, extended

Wake me up from this shock

You lead the park but scare no sheep,
An ewe went astray while you sleep,
Why weren't you on call round the clock?
To care for and protect...

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Categories: metaphor, anger, animal, betrayal, hilarious,

Dreamscapes in Minuet

Act I: 
Gaze a burning gift of a rainbow kaleidoscope reflecting a passage into the wavering pine of mesmerizing clouds and surreal meadows with candy...

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Categories: metaphor, animal, bird, dark, death,

a wolf will never be a pet

Stuff me in dresses all that you want— 
the same way you’d put a collar on a wolf, and tighten it like a noose,
then drag...

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Categories: anger, animal, metaphor, parents,

HUMAN, ANIMALS AND GOD




God does not make mistakes
He has always been right...

Men are human,
animals are animals...

But humanity
with free will,
always undoes something...

that is why there are men
with great Sense...

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Categories: metaphor, allusion, analogy, animal, extended