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Life Metaphor Poems

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


The Walking Dead

Walking dead. Zombies.
Drones looking for sustinance.
Hungry with blank eyes.
Living no life and loveless.
Aimlessly forging ahead.

Walking dead. Zombies.
Reminds me of the living.
No life, yet still here.
Sit
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© Talia Hill  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, philosophy,



Advertently A Half-Baked Human Being

Born into this next life 
from the past, 
I was told 
I was a human. 
Make sense, the birth-
mark on my right 
arm hints to
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Categories: character, creation, extended metaphor,

Premium Member I am Yellow - Updated

iconic sunrise
I wear no disguise,
really.
as do butterflies,
earth, I colorize
freely.
golden moon full-size
lulls school bus allies
briefly.
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Categories: appreciation, extended metaphor, life,

Nature of The Beast

It stalks in silent corners of the mind,
a whisper, jagged, dark, and undefined.
Its claws creeps walls we dare not show,
eyes ecstatic where our hearts should
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Categories: metaphor, courage, inspirational, journey, life,

RENEWED

A lifeless cloud, aloft invisible air
   Blows Eastward;
  A destination Fate had prepared.
         
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Categories: metaphor, romance, romantic love,



Normalcy

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

SEEDS OF WISDOM




The seed of freedom is curtailed,
germinates interrupted,
the harvest is delayed...

The fruit of freedom
may take time to be harvested,
but it is worth every stoic sacrifice...

We cultivate
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Categories: allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,

Premium Member AN AVIAN WALK

AN AVIAN WALK

What a peaceful walk!
Palisade-treed-birds, echoing:
Ringing ears silenced:-
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Categories: metaphor, life,

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,

He Shall Be Called

   		A Name


  “His name shall be called…”
A great statement of His glory.
  Yet immediately we reason,
Let’s compare it to your
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Categories: metaphor, anxiety, bible, encouraging, extended

It's Not About Cigarettes

Some days, I’m still fighting the urge to light a cigarette—missing those rippling ribbons of smoke and the way they would uncoil in the dark,
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Categories: metaphor, addiction, depression, emotions, sad,

Premium Member Man Is Like The Grains Of Sand

Man is like the grains of sand,
in the hourglass of eternity.
Reincarnating with every turn of the glass,
continually changing while staying the same.

The same eternal energy,
moving
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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, change, growth, humanity, life,

Premium Member Seeds Of The Soul

In our souls lie all the seeds,
Waiting patiently to meet our needs.
Soulfully waiting for us to choose,
For us to use or abuse.

We plant our seeds
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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, angel, creation, growth, life,

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,

Premium Member IN THE WAKE OF POLITICAL RENDERINGS

IN THE WAKE OF POLITICAL RENDERINGS   

In today’s diabolical
Political renderings,
Let’s not be like
Naked sage trees:
Leaves and fruits rotting
In unjust, bigoted political dirt:-
Rather, today
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Categories: metaphor, analogy,


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