Family Metaphor Poems
These Family Metaphor poems are examples of Metaphor poems about Family. These are the best examples of Metaphor Family poems written by international poets.
Khia's CrusadeSaracen princess,
Blackened corridors bathed in honey hold you in high esteem as you dance in flickers, eyes raising the death toll every time you...
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Categories:
desire, family, metaphor, military,
ST FRANCIS AND ST CLARE : TWIN SOULS : PART 2 no turning back at nineteen years of
age with bonded Love no eyes could
see or earthly arms could hold dear
into a fold of...
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Categories:
metaphor, allegory, allusion, character, courage,
What becomes of a world?The trees ache with a pain only those who have witnessed true horror
The swinging rope moping for it had been turned to a killer...
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Categories:
discrimination, family, funeral, metaphor,
More I try, more I cry In just a day,
I lost my father, my mum,
and my only two siblings,
I became the only member of my family:
my own father,
...
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Categories:
depression, extended metaphor, grief,
Your Smile Is As Cute As A Baby Seal'sYour smiles frozen over,
and you stand tall above the water
like an iceberg, so tall and elegant
in your presentation.
But surface-level trickery
can’t fool or satiate
my scuba diver
curiosity.
I...
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Categories:
metaphor, 10th grade, 11th grade,
The case of lynching vs suicideThe case of lynching vs suicide
A black man
Hangs
Lifeless
Silent
Eerie
The only sound
Is the wind thrashing around
As it surrounds
The black man
Screaming loud
Trying to...
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Categories:
metaphor, political, prejudice, race, racism,
Where do all the apologies goWhere do all the apologies go
The ones unheard, unspoken of
Do they haunt the houses they can't move on from
Do they move through the walls
Waiting for...
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Categories:
metaphor, betrayal, color, community, home,
IN THE IRONY OF FORGIVENESS
IN THE IRONY OF FORGIVENESS
The irony of forgiveness,
Is that human nature, doesn't
Demand that its cause
Be given forgetfulness;
Thus, giving anger opportunity
To revive its paining spirit
Of negative...
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Categories:
allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
SEA WANTS ME SEA WANTS ME
Waves are here for the winners
spirals floating in turquoise
dance ululating undulating
blue bright sight
a point with paddle board
to soar sanguine Seas
I...
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Categories:
metaphor, 12th grade, adventure, emotions,
The Prismatic Self
Colossians 3:17-25 KJV Bible
"And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and...
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Categories:
art, creation, extended metaphor,
The Gas Station Paradox
A woman at the gas station
is unremarkable besides
her name tag reading Clarity
and her teeth, saying never mind.
She asks if I need a receipt....
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Categories:
extended metaphor,
The Cruelty Of WealthWealth, a siren's charm, alluring and bright
A pillow's softness, a thimble's gentle might
It provides for earthly needs, a feast to behold
Yet, in its depths, a...
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Categories:
metaphor, allusion, hyperbole, imagery, irony,
ClemencyThere was a girl named Clemency
who walked with me to college every morning.
Neither shy nor outspoken.
Her face was always concealed by a mask.
I have never...
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Categories:
metaphor, abuse, brother, depression, endurance,
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,
THE WAKE WITHOUT VIGILTime longer than rope
Chokes hearts dangling
In the reality of struggle:-
Grieving mothers and widows
Veil their grief in sagging bosoms
As they wail in excruciating silence:-
Fragments of men,...
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Categories:
metaphor, allegory, anxiety, death, extended