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Dad Metaphor Poems

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


who's fluffy dad
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              t'wuz mom'z huni
        ...

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Categories: allegory, extended metaphor, fate,



BEHIND THOSE WALLS
By Cherbo Geeplay


My wife whispered: somebody, go call Muna 
to come here. Let her tell her dad what she 
told me today. I asked: What’s...

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Categories: depression, gender, literature, metaphor,

A Hunger Unfed
from your first born, when you grab a dusting of talc, crushed with late night feeds, stirring in bouncing and stories on a knee,

adding a...

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Categories: metaphor, analogy,

My Beloved Antichrist
Raised off tales of a biblical nature,
I had always been warned,
About a particular creature,
The devil bound to human flesh,
To bring us destruction,
To bring us death,

He...

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Categories: metaphor, abuse, bible, dad, daughter,

Premium Member Dear Mama
dear Mama, have you found that other side
      where loved ones, hope and heaven all reside?
    ...

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Categories: grief, heartbroken, loss, metaphor,



Teeth
Ill comply, ill apologise, im ing tired
I’ll hold your hand in mine, resigned, fingertips when i dont exist
Palm to palm on a good day, a...

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Categories: metaphor, 5th grade, addiction, child

Heel To Foot
i always walked a sidewalk on my way back from the park,
and i always approached heel to foot,
because that’s what my dad taught me that...

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Categories: metaphor, absence, age, analogy, boy,

The Chimera of Generations
they don't want dramatic parents anymore
sentimental
they got bored of them
they are sick of exaltation
they don't want the vehemence of which
the parents hung on
convinced that it...

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Categories: metaphor, age, analogy, boxing day ,

Premium Member A Blessing
Irreplaceable...
Smirking thoughts of you.
Moments spent with you,
Golden grains of sand
I often sift through.

Never straying
Far from my mind,
Your memory
Is a blessing.

Gone yet not
Forgotten.
Forever...

I'll miss
You so...

Dad.


Date written:...

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Categories: father, memory, metaphor, remember,

Premium Member By Queen's Decree
In days of old the poets told a tale
A scout rode out to search the unforseen
To gather food and drink, to blaze a trail
A pious...

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Categories: dad, metaphor,

Strangle
Strangle

You don’t realize
How much I hate your guts
Clutch a glass so tight
I don’t see the blood 
Leaking from the shards
That’ve dug deep into my skin.

Eyes...

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© Megan Ryan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, anger, dad, dark, death,

Premium Member Unforgettable
               Torrential rain of tears 
     ...

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Categories: metaphor, death, grief, loss, memory,

Premium Member Future Dreams
Future Dreams

The hot water in the teapot
is boiling and the kettle whistling loudly. 
It seems to have gotten hot, very quickly, 
as if time was...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, absence, abuse, america, journey,

Fruit Fly, Cockroach, Random Lie
Fruit Fly, Cockroach, Random Lie Fruit fly, cockroach, random lie, here we go eternity sis-boom... bye. 
        ...

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© Di No  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anxiety, extended metaphor, introspection,

The Grandladder Clock
My Gentlemen, 
I have done all it takes.
Made fore my man, was a formless frame
Worked by a wombsman, unplaned, clear of grain
A brittle whittled acorn...

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Categories: extended metaphor, father, father


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