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Lion Metaphor Poems

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

Many Moons

Echo of distant cries,
quadruped steps deepening into dusk—
wind folding the earth’s breath.
Craftsman of the spider web,
seas of lightning possessing the sky.

Guardian of the other side,
conceiver...

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Categories: metaphor, creation, dedication, deep, extended

Live like a Jackal, Die like a dog

Hear the flames crackle
Fall on your sword  
Live like a Jackal  
Die like a dog  

The lion is weary
Hyenas dart and bite
Their...

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Categories: metaphor, abuse, anger, betrayal, dog,

I Am

I am a rose with no thorns to prick
Broken glass with no shards to cut
A bow with no arrow to shot at its mark
A gun...

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Categories: metaphor, emotions, feelings, i am,

ANIMALS aeiou poetic


           

           

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Categories: metaphor, allusion, analogy, creation, extended

Unlikely Conversation in the Mirror

to love, is often to bleed,
cut at the wrist through the fields of reids,
mummification of a beloved memory,
wrapped in caramel gauze of a felo de...

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Categories: dark, extended metaphor, fate,

Mirror Mirror

I wish to be a bird 
to see the world
to represent peace and freedom
Instead, I am confined 
in a glass cage
that shatters to the touch

In...

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Categories: metaphor, angst, animal, beautiful, desire,

SPHINX STONE

SPHINX STONE 

I am Sphinx Stone
Sun stationed statue
silent sculptured synoptic 
not marble or granite 
nor black tourmaline or
crystal sapphire quartz
vortex for Void actualising 
sacred amber...

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Categories: metaphor, africa, age, color, extended

Twilight Throne


I'm the lion-hearted fragrance of basil stars, 
breathing blames like the Goddess of Hurricanes, 
but, was this twilight throne, ever mine to tame?
I'll forever bleed...

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Categories: metaphor, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,

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

Living Among Ferocious Animals

Having to undertake my journey through life
        I face unusual situations...This time with animals...

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Categories: metaphor, adventure, allegory, animal, appreciation,

Daily Writing: Write a Poem About Bananas

Sometimes you cruise through life
with blinders on
Completely unawares of those damned
slippery bananas

At every turn and corner they lurk
like a lion on the savanna
and you, in...

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Categories: metaphor, fantasy, hyperbole,

Chimera

A lion with a passion so ravenous
Unable to be satisfied by love
her bite of sensuality poisonous
She lives in her empty pit of self-love

this shepherd of...

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Categories: addiction, desire, metaphor,

I South Africa I Woman

{August is Woman’s Month in South Africa. August 9th is Woman’s Day. August 8th is an opening of the Lion’s Portal to Cosmic Strength. This...

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Categories: metaphor, courage, emotions, endurance, extended

Life In Jungle

When you meet a  peacock 
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Categories: africa, metaphor,

The Hungry and Angry Lions

Can you laugh with me? 
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Categories: metaphor,