Dream Metaphor Poems

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


I

Am still here
Heaven and earth 
Negotiate custody terms


Heaven became resentful

With every payment
A part of my soul is severed

How can I go to heaven incomplete?
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Categories: metaphor, dream, emotions, faith, feelings,


Premium Member Almost made Avalon

I preached to my flock, "you voted them in
"The knaves and fools who did freedom in.
"I know a new place to settle upon
The hills and
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Categories: metaphor, allegory, allusion, america, analogy,

The Akashic Records

In the high silence of Tibet,
when the temple’s incense was fading into the cold air,
the Dalai Lama placed in my hands a vessel—
a humble bottle,
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Categories: metaphor, adventure, allegory, farewell, home,

The Divine Seed - A heart-touching poem on the soul’s origin from the Supreme

In silence where no echoes roam,
Before the stars were carved in dome,
Before the seas had learned to swell,
There stirred a Light no tongue could tell.

Not
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Categories: metaphor, faith, feelings, god, true

somewhere

somewhere among the shaded trees this version of Tuesday
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Categories: metaphor, appreciation, character, dark, deep,


Normalcy

A return to Normalcy
As night comes, all are at ease 
We return to slumber 
In the electric comfort 
Of artificiality that is our lives 
We
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Categories: metaphor, allusion, art, change, confidence,

Susie Q’s Nightmare

As the world unfurls
iN REMbrandt's muddy pastel
Little Susie curls her knees
right on cue, credence that
there's clear water here, a
revival of Hawkins and
Burton's swamp spell

When I
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Categories: dream, extended metaphor, music,

The longing of an eternal: Inspired from The Sandman by Neil Gaimon

As the dream king is sat at his throne...

What am I to do whilst I am away? What then would befall my kingdom? There is
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Categories: metaphor, allegory, death, desire, destiny,

A Fearless Okay

An empty room filled 
with silence, 
I want to remain, 
I want to dream more. 
The wind pushes 
the window wide 
open filling the room,
no
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Categories: metaphor, confidence, courage, future, growth,

My crimson devotion

He was a canvas...a beautiful sight,
An expanse of white, so pure and bright.
Not like the moon that graces the night,
Nor like the clouds that drift
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© Koki Yz  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: conflict, dream, extended metaphor,

Premium Member oh yes i think

I think I shall - oh yes, I shall
put you to words in books, et al
and share my scoundrel’s rationale
with those of impish-like morale
but pray
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Categories: analogy, love, metaphor,

The First Bite

Kneaded clouds in saltlight bowls,
rolled paper thin, then baked
into a crescent shaped croissant.
Buttered with mist.
The first bite and you fall from heavens,
crumb by dream-soaked crumb.
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Categories: allegory, metaphor,

After the Touch

7 lines /7syllables
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she was touched by a phantom

becoming a phantom too

both boarded coral carriage
 
wheels grate cobble streets in mist

opera seats were waiting
 
then to
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Categories: dream, extended metaphor, fantasy,

Premium Member Random Thoughts

When random thoughts are bombarding a mind,
Cohesiveness among them is hard to find.
Metaphors and symbols just like in one’s dreams,
Even what is seen, is not
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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, creation, dream, how i

Endgame in Exile

I
At eleven, Tehran’s burning blaze,
Sleeve rolled high to meet the weight,
A Guard’s cold fist—a question raised—
A scar that shapes my fragile fate.

II
At sixteen, classroom doors
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Categories: metaphor, political,

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