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Music Metaphor Poems

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


Premium Member We're Probably Getting Back Together Soon
My phone died this week.
I’ve ordered a new one—
I’d like to say I’ve enjoyed the silence,
just lo-fi music playing, slipping into a flow state.
But I’d...

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Categories: culture, extended metaphor, hyperbole,



Fulcrum of a rose
   my soul-rose has a fulcrum 
sometimes
veined petals spread across 
skies unknown, thorns ready 
for piercing when blood
too perfumed passionate
both melancholic forlorn ...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, allusion, change, character,

Premium Member Smoke And Mirrors - Channelling in the Spirit of Edgar Allan Poe - A Musical Video- POTD

POTD June 15 2025

Smoke And Mirrors – Channelling in the Spirit of Edgar Allan Poe

When regulation picks at pillaged dreams

The searchlight shines its brutal beams

As...

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Categories: metaphor, anxiety, emotions, identity, inspiration,

Premium Member MUSIC TO THE EYES
The rising and setting
Of the sun…
The waxing and waning 
Of the moon…

The orchestrated constellations
Of the beaming stars…
The staccato positionings
Of the planets…

The andante asteroids, comets,
And nebulae…
The...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory,

Twelve Sunflowers in a Vase
 twelve of us he choose to paint
    sons of Jacob in an earthen 
jar so sturdy
plonked us with vehemence
directed by neuronal...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, art, character, color,



Premium Member The Paradiddle of Being - Book Two: The Becoming
VI.

We are all metric modulations
of our former selves—changing time signatures
mid-measure, learning to count
in odd meters when life refuses
to conform to 4/4 expectations
finding beauty in 7/8...

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Categories: extended metaphor, fate, identity,

Muted Song
His lips parted,
but the notes clung,
threaded in silence
by invisible keys.

The song stayed,
in a nest of aches,
where wishes fluttered
without hope of flight.

He hummed,
but no one heard
the...

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Categories: metaphor, grief, how i feel,

THE CHOICE
 
 THE  CHOICE

here I arrived, breath away
boldly stepped out of a 
Blue Train, not waiting for 
fellow passengers with 
tedious conversations about 
Hemingway,...

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Categories: metaphor, allusion, change, character, creation,

Premium Member Unheard
There is music in the silence, in the rest of unheard notes. That is where I hold my breath. Where the universe spins out its...

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Categories: metaphor, dream, earth day, environment,

A child cries in a mirror
A child's joy was taken at gunpoint
in a long, dark tunnel on a winter night~
as clouds drifted, whispering subconscious fears,
stirred by music played by demons,
loosed...

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Categories: metaphor, bird, child, child abuse,

What do you fear?
It's a fresh day
To play in a new way
To convey each light ray 
More pray, no delay, fair pay
We stay where we lay
What can I...

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Categories: metaphor, destiny, dream, encouraging, imagery,

Anatomy Of The Leg
In 2013 Amélie Ségarra danced on a Grand Piano with knives 
taped to the tips of her feet.
The room is empty apart from a single...

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Categories: metaphor, allusion, analogy, appreciation, daffodils,

The Lyre and The Flute
Epirus saw the needs of it's people
through the eyes of there need.
While on Mimaki the mounds of architecture
were unveiled to a world wishing for
 modern...

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Categories: analogy, conflict, extended metaphor,

Premium Member Interview with a Barnacle
The recorder clicks on.

What made you stay?

I didn’t stay.
I fastened.
I was made to fasten.
And if you're made to fasten,
you look for something moving.
Something strong enough
to...

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Categories: extended metaphor,

ELEPHANT WOMAN
{ emo music inspired poem }

ELEPHANT WOMAN 

She is Elephant Woman 
you cannot hide from her
in houses of brick or glass or 
lined velvet curtains
whether...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, character, courage, dance,


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