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Ocean Metaphor Poems

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


The Mirror
I opened my eyes when it was too late.
The river passed before my wide-open eyes.
I missed my childhood;
I was a prisoner in my mind.
Neither God...

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Categories: extended metaphor, growing up,



Immodest Proposal
It might be an absurd idea
But we need to move on from here
Stalled in the darkness
With no moral compass
To guide us into the clear
 
It...

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Categories: metaphor, america, angst, conflict, death,

PINK SCALLOP SHELL
PINK SCALLOP SHELL 

Along my road to Freedom stood
showy blue-green sentinels with
white cloud whiffs representing Sky
starling decorated bushes joined 
Party of the Road to nowhere...

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Categories: metaphor, beach, character, color, environment,

Float
My drinks enticing and sweet
On a chair in the middle of the street
My little floaters been dinged
Roiling waves the edges singed
The wood alive with roiling...

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Categories: metaphor, abuse, addiction, imagery, introspection,

Tethys, Time
Ramparts of the castle?
Slicked well with rain or blood?
Ask the master's vassal.
His veins have caused a flood...

Well. Is that so? Don't you know?
Steady as we...

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Categories: confidence, extended metaphor,



Earth Undone
Mountains made of waves
tore the flesh from Mother Earth —
flayed and flooding.

The mud grieves beneath her,
clogged with stagnant saline.
She used to breathe — rivers ran...

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Categories: earth, environment, extended metaphor,

Still, I Burn
Once,
the world was stitched in crayons;
lemon yellows, ocean blues,
skies that never ended
and trees that could talk
if you listened hard enough.

I used to run
with arms outstretched,
believing...

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Categories: change, encouraging, extended metaphor,

Premium Member The Sea Ever Flowing
At the end of the sea and start of the sand
there lies a place; a place where we stand
and watch the sea go from shore...

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Categories: extended metaphor, ocean, symbolism,

Ocean, Knocking
As you open that door…
you don’t know that there is 
an ocean behind it 


If you had to choose between feeling nothing and feeling everything,...

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Categories: metaphor, anxiety, beautiful, character, creation,

Premium Member Heavy is The -
Hopelessness encloses, engulfing me,  
As another dismal night drifts in—  
Where the only light is the afterglow of the midnight sun.  
I...

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Categories: dark, gothic, horror, metaphor,

Drone
Drone

little specs down below
watch them scurry to and fro
streams of white and red 
filling an ocean at my behest

with broken backs and crooked limbs
their hurried...

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Categories: corruption, culture, extended metaphor,

Premium Member IN THE TIED BOW OF LOVE
Yesterday, you were two,
Today, you've become one;
A single string, knotted
Into a bow of eternal love:-

As trials and tribulations
test and tease your string,
The tighter the boe-knot
Must...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory,

Premium Member IN THE TIED BOW OF ETERNAL LOVE
(Apropos Of You And Yours)


       Yesterday you were two;

        today you’ve become...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, analogy, fate, love,

Premium Member Dune Perdue
    Updraft lifts limbs, leaves scurry like mice exposed
    Mother Nature shakes shorebreak, incline imposed
    Gnaws...

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Categories: animal, beach, bird, metaphor,

Joy Within
Let the joy that flows in the gate of affection
Flood your world like an ocean
And water your desert with a unique bloom....

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Categories: metaphor, africa, best friend, care,


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