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Courage Metaphor Poems

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


My Incubus
Pounding at the resonant head 
of my chest—he of hunger 
latches his fangs just beneath my jaw—
not to sever silence, but to pummel poison.
Tissue parts...

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Categories: metaphor, anxiety, change, character, conflict,



ELEPHANT WOMAN
{ emo music inspired poem }

ELEPHANT WOMAN 

She is Elephant Woman 
you cannot hide from her
in houses of brick or glass or 
lined velvet curtains
whether...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, character, courage, dance,

Love Collision
If love breaks you open

And you have a chance to look inside

You might be surprised at what you find

 

If love smashes your expectation

And you...

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© Mary Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, allegory, courage, emotions, extended

The Agitator
The egg said to the bacon

“What is wrong with you?”

“You arrive with such a fuss and a splatter”

“All the eggs are wondering just what could...

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© Mary Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, allegory, character, conflict, courage,

MAGDALENE: JEWEL OF JESUS
  MAGDALENE : JEWEL OF JESUS 


She was the Chosen
a beckoned one
to ignite His speeches 
smooth it with her own
illustrious strength
‘Courage against Odds’
marked her...

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Categories: metaphor, character, courage, death, emotions,



Bliss
When you don’t know
What you can’t do
Then the unimaginable
Comes naturally to you

When you've never seen
What you couldn’t be
Then your vision
Grows wings that keep you free

When...

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© Mary Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, allegory, confidence, courage, destiny,

Premium Member IN THE GARDENING OF THE GENESIS AND REVELATION OF LIFE
For the blessed fruits of the blessed tree of life’s being,
Persecution and crucifixion have their time in life’s seasons;
Their demise coming with seasons of resurrection...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory,

Premium Member Brains and Guts: The Write, Right, Rite of Revolution
Brains and guts orbit the soul—
that polar star searing in the marrow of being.

I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons
Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of...

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Categories: metaphor, courage, destiny, history, imagery,

Premium Member The Story of my Life
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” E.E. Cummings
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Categories: courage, extended metaphor, life,

Premium Member Metronomes and Garden Gnomes
Instead of isolation
consider oscillation 
Proof positive
is clear to see
It all boils down
to frequency
Which of these words
hits close to home
a metronome or
garden gnome?
Their differentiation 
 ...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: community, courage, hope, metaphor,

IRON MAIDEN
Sponsor : Robert James Ligouri 

IRON MAIDEN 

Iron maiden was she 
fathered from loins of 
Zeus flow free ~
surrounded by swords 
steely three, icicle aura...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, allusion, character, courage,

Premium Member The Echo Returns Not
There was no echo as shadows fell
nor a semblance in dawn's dappled light
no footfalls that can never mean well
not a whisper nor hint at twilight
echo's...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: angst, change, courage, metaphor,

Premium Member IN THE CHANGING TIME A'COMING
Indeed, the truth will always be self-evident

and beyond all lies;

Though they laid down the 5th to ensure deniability

of evident charges,

Over the trials of history—his-story—true crime...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, black african american,

Premium Member UNCOCOONED
In this hive

of American life

are lifetime workers

engaged in labors of love

and good trouble.

 

But there are

also evil drones

seeking to permanently

 cocoon justice, liberty

and equality.

 

Thus,...

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Categories: metaphor, analogy, courage, encouraging, extended

Premium Member When Evil Hides Among Their Smiles
She whispered to me, "I hope you suffer well."
God heard her words, and he smiled,
for if suffering is what she wanted for me,
her hopes would...

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Categories: metaphor, child, courage, death, evil,


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