Food Metaphor Poems
These Food Metaphor poems are examples of Metaphor poems about Food. These are the best examples of Metaphor Food poems written by international poets.
codependency
light …
and dark -
shadow and bright
are diametrically opposed
and intricately interdependent
we must learn to not fear the dark
for it holds the same delight, the same color
the...
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Categories:
metaphor, analogy, dark, life, light,
a hot day and a smelterA hot day and a smelter
Is it in Qatar, or in Dubai a friendly aluminum
smelter for sale, the one in the picture on a TV...
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Categories:
color, creation, extended metaphor,
They Gathered Outside My House
They gathered outside- I'm alone,
and at my back window, I groan!
I think- what is this
my hubby will miss?
Then, quickly I reach for my phone!
"We're being...
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Categories:
emotions, fate, funny, metaphor,
An Overthinker's TormentThinking and thinking and thinking.
I want to stop going over the memories,
The looping record of agonising nothings.
That's the problem, you see?
It's not a problem to...
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Categories:
anxiety, confusion, extended metaphor,
SHE
She is a Pacific ocean
Tranquil from outside
tumultuous from with in
Shallow it seems from the...
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Categories:
metaphor, 10th grade, 11th grade,
WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGSWOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS
In the delicious womb of all beginnings
we learnt to giggle electrons
to bear all things
without nusturtiums, pink lilies or doughnuts
warm...
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Categories:
allegory, creation, extended metaphor,
BlameIt simmers. This constant invisible, hovering
like a wasp in the forever periphery threatening
lightning strike yellows, sudden and unbidden. It spills
and spools, down into...
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Categories:
metaphor, analogy,
A Hunger Unfedfrom 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,
The FishLaughter trills through fire
Joy is spun on a lyre
Feathers were just growing in
And the bird watched its kin
Playing, scratching, screaming
I want to play!
You're on fire!
Thats...
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Categories:
metaphor, anger, animal, bullying, depression,
A Tree Bears FruitStarting quite fragile, wet, bright and agile,
it met the first test of it’s life.
Death promptly flew down, pecked at the ground,
a beak that glints...
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Categories:
metaphor, bird, children, fruit, growth,
In The SilenceIn your silence I see colours,
speech crumbling like flaking paint, dried; truth dripping from lips, black spittle on a brush.
In the silence I inhale the...
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Categories:
metaphor, analogy,
The Meal
In the shallow
light of the moon,
the shadow dives
into the Hydrangeas
seeking a camouflage
of dark green
the howl of the
wolf pierces the
silence of the sleepy night
like the cry...
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Categories:
metaphor, cat, confusion, death, extended
Fast Food
I have a box that I keep locked
In my bag
Pockets deeper than six feet
My friend Andrew died
But he still helps me pay for things
Jack let...
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Categories:
food, funny, metaphor, money,
Exponential Growth
I.
Fold, crease, unfold, sheets
of paper thin as possibility,
a crisp white plea to gravity.
Forty-five times, a cosmic origami
building bridges from table to the moon.
The mind...
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Categories:
metaphor, conflict, courage, desire, extended
Times of uncertainty
What say you now, before the crowd, for these most heinous crimes.
You're a wretched sort, to face this court, in most uncertain times.
A capital charge,...
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Categories:
metaphor, conflict, corruption, devotion, extended