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.


Premium Member to paint with words

to paint with words and colored phrase
          we breathe new speech and set ablaze
  
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Categories: analogy, appreciation, metaphor, poems,


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           My Heart, home
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Categories: metaphor, 12th grade, allusion, change,

Premium Member BONDED STIFF

BONDED STIFF

Our love knows no swiftness;
Its tied and bowed in stiffness:-

Our life of love, is no played game;
Rather, it's an everlasting bond attained:-

May our love
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Categories: beautiful, blessing, extended metaphor,

SAYINGS WE SAY WHEN IN SOLITUDE




Human being, stretched tension
between the divine and animal realms,
distant balance suspended
between the exiguous and the abysmal!

The body only acts
with what eyes see
and the spirit grasps...

Only
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Categories: allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,

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,


1409 : Senryu



   

         kitchen clean broom sweep 

        
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Categories: change, extended metaphor, home,

Premium Member LIPS SUCCULENT-

I've tasted her lips 
We've had kissed 
Her saliva was sweet 
Sugary like licorice
Juicy plump plum, like bubble gum
Like a butterfly sucking nectar
Life Starts
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Categories: metaphor, addiction, analogy, inspirational love,

The Players

The first act sets the scene
Romantic and serene

In the second act it is revealed
The conflict there that was concealed

Count to three, it's there to see
The
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Categories: age, extended metaphor, wisdom,

Premium Member Life Is All A Stage

Like a song we all like to improvise as we all go along.
Like a stageplay we like to have reasons to  pretend and play.
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Categories: allusion, life, meaningful, metaphor,

CONNOTATIVE AND DENOTATIVE EPIGRAMS





Poets, let us always unite
in the most noble crusade...
to bring peace and beauty to life!

Scarcity is good for the economy
but very bad for the poor
who
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Categories: allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,

Premium Member EBONY REVELATIONS

EBONY REVELATIONS

We are not
Their Hams,
We are Lambs
Of the Lord:
Our Liberator:-
Their race-based
Biblical thoughts,
Are as winter snowballs,
Falling into the fires of hell:-
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Categories: metaphor, allegory,

Isolated in Crowded Places

If life is a party--
I stay halfway in the doorway
half-hoping nobody notices me
half-wishing somebody does

The question, is it really having fun
when one has to force
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Categories: metaphor, celebration, identity, journey, loneliness,

Premium Member A King Was He

I need some help, I'm requesting,
That I understood, I believe
I was in this hitch of unworthiness
Because life had thrown me a switch.

The dope was nasty
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Categories: metaphor, analogy, blessing, christian, creation,

When the time is ripe

The world is crazy,
believe me or not—
it knows neither good nor bad,
only flows forward,
shaping wonders
for you to see.

A meal needs its patience:
chop, fry, stir,
each in
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Categories: hope, inspiration, life, metaphor,

Quicksand

On a silent journey,
I walked into the forest.
Within the dark,
A silhouette crept me out.

Suddenly I stumbled
And fell into a quicksand pit.
A cry for help—
No one
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Categories: metaphor, adventure, dark, fear, hope,

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