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Mom Metaphor Poems

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


Bettering through inspiration
Inspiration looks different,
When all you’ve felt is anger,
Trying to not be viewed as belligerent,
Your mind and self are your only anchor.


Inspiration brightens you’re life,
Makes your...

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Categories: metaphor,



Premium Member Dear Mama
dear Mama, have you found that other side
      where loved ones, hope and heaven all reside?
    ...

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Categories: grief, heartbroken, loss, metaphor,

Premium Member Eyes Like a Hawk
My mom has eyes like a hawk. 
They‘re in the back of her head. 
In town, she told me not to gawk.
I followed down the...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, animal, bird, fear,

Premium Member Future Dreams
Future Dreams

The hot water in the teapot
is boiling and the kettle whistling loudly. 
It seems to have gotten hot, very quickly, 
as if time was...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, absence, abuse, america, journey,

Premium Member White Lace
White Lace

Mother died today. 
They called me. 
I thought they did not have, my number. 
They never called before, now. 
Why bother to call now?...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, abortion, abuse, death of



A Letter To My Dead Daughter
My Love,

The sky reminded me of you today.
The sun set in lilac with a teasing tinge of pink—
just the way you used to love it.

On...

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Categories: metaphor, beautiful, bereavement, death, extended

Guardian Moon
the moon from the sky
as soon as the night arrives
from above watchs me...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, appreciation, metaphor,

Premium Member A Mirroring Saga of Being Not You
(Apropos Of A School-Day Happenstance)

There she stood on the edge 
of the cliff of loneliness—her
tiny eyes staring out into space.

As I cautiously approached her,
I softly...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, girl, hyperbole, inspirational,

Premium Member Dubious Miracles
My EarthMom used to stand easy
at our kitchen sink,
looking out across our fertile backyard
vegetable garden,

Rising from humbly short
but brilliantly red/green
bodhisattva radishes
inside white but spicy,
not the...

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Categories: metaphor, culture, earth, health, humor,

Poetry To Give To Those Who Don'T Have
My poetry,
   it's not from the sky, from the sun,
   nor the moon...
   But with love i
  ...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended

M O M
Mom. You were my first address,
          I already left that prime address

    ...

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Categories: metaphor, allusion, appreciation, care, extended

There For Me
Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Categories: metaphor, 12th grade, character, hope,

The Malarial Sporozoite
My mom and dad met in the gut of an insect!  	
As a kid, I was packed in a sac not so perfect;	
When I...

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Categories: care, death, extended metaphor,

Premium Member The One In the Mirror
The One in the Mirror,
	I’ll look in the mirror to see if she is there looking back at me. As time goes by, she appears...

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Categories: appreciation, extended metaphor, life,

Day, Moon, Day By Day
The day was sick, unwilling
 won a kiss from mother moon ...
  Day woke up joyful smiling
 it was lighted by daddy sun ...

...

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Categories: allusion, day, metaphor, moon,


Book: Shattered Sighs