Funny Metaphor Poems

Let’s not make a scene—
not in front of the metaphor-curious.
We owe them a semblance
of shared syllabic stability.

You take Tuesdays,
I’ll keep weekends and the enjambments.
Let’s split...

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My bars the words, the prison guard my verse,
Rattling the staves of this poetic cell,
I struggle vainly, locked up in this jail. 
Yea, thus is...

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Quince shaped houses landscape Julienned Street
where citric groans once molded a blue cheese night.  
In one home lives reclusive Graham and his wife, Coco,
two...

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The pen is mightier than the sword
The pen is the copyist of every word
Just don’t combine “pen is” as a paper headline once did report
And...

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It’s a funny thing, life 
Like the tightrope we balance on, the maze we forage, 
Poised and sharp like an edge of a knife 
We...

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Bringing your troubles; like I was your dumping ground
Walked away with my life without as much as an amen
No words spoken, until my happiness drowned...

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Across the street, it’s hard to miss,
That fixer-upper in a state of bliss,
With peeling paint and the promise of change,
Yet one stubborn strip remains, so...

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Cat sitting on his calm;
In a rocking chair knitting yarn;
While fish drinking coffee laced in yeast;
Yawning blowing bubbles on the beach; 

Dogs frying  bacon;
Caterpillars...

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        auspicious though i
 hern during the day lock's my
      at night judge...

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I'm a flower tickler
with a flower tickler's thumb
like my dog before me
although he's more of a philanthropist
than a poet, but, like him, I too bark
my...

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Does not matter what they say..
Poetry is easy but it’s not poetry…
Hallmark cliché is not a poem I am afraid..
You can spot a poet.. By...

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Crossroads in the desert sands swirls,
an orb whirls around as clouds gather,
lightning bolt violet violently twirls,
roads crack with shotgun thunder.

Visage a pearl cascades as she...

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It isn't easy to save the world 
With your back on the asphalt
Crawling with carpenter ants that
Yes even they
Want you out of the way

I'd head...

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It's funny how we can see spider's webs
Pity those flies with their five eyes missing them
Yet never reflecting on the fact we have only two...

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Florid banshees recoiled, neck and hankering sneer.

A succinctly exuberant suggestion when selective.

Came on, fell flat with laconic ornamentation.

A miniature jaunt, interment; glove comparted.

Pin-striped foxtails attuned...

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