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People Metaphor Poems

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


Premium Member The Third Wind
1st wind, childhood
2nd wind, jobs, career
3rd wind, elder life.

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Categories: adventure, life, meaningful, metaphor,



Border-lie
A border is a line drawn in the sand
Constantly shifting if you have time to see
A personality is a borderline ebbing
Time ceaselessly flowing us away...

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Categories: extended metaphor, planet, space,

The Map
I stand with a treasure map,
no X to mark the spot.
A scattering of clues,
roadmaps of endless dots.

Your name is on an envelope,
surely that’s proof enough?
But...

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Categories: metaphor, analogy,

Interview Overheard
I hear them talking as I open my eyes, 
a hazy something lingers on my lips like lava, 
threatening to erupt. I hear question then...

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Categories: metaphor, analogy, animal,

Premium Member Mind the Gap
Love and hate are emotions great, 
Yet they are not so far apart.
To many people they seem eternal, 
Perched like Janus at the ends of...

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Categories: extended metaphor, love,



Premium Member Time
Sheila asked him
“Do you have the time?”
Ben answered “It’s five after two.” She responded “That is a perfectly good answer, but that is not the...

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Categories: city, england, extended metaphor,

There Sits the City Gold
There sits the City Gold
Where robbers ne'er grab hold,
Nor rot, nor moth, nor mold.

There sits a lava moat
Not passable by boat
Nor rope, nor writ, nor...

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Categories: analogy, god, jesus, metaphor,

Premium Member Black And White
Angels and brides do come in white.
All things beautiful, light and bright.
Demons and witches prefer black,
evil ways and means to attack.

White, pure, inspiring, eternal love,
gift...

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© MB Farookh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: color, dark, extended metaphor,

Premium Member La-Di-Da
They all pranced through some broad-like avenue
and they've placed apart from each other's course
proved they stood full of airs and graces view
from cameras balanced by...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, allusion, appreciation, change, character,

Premium Member 'Silly' Me
“Life is too short to be serious all the time. So, if you can’t laugh at yourself, call me and I’ll laugh at you.” -...

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© MB Farookh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, confidence, growing up, happiness,

Premium Member Time

I am Time,
I do not know
Where I’ve come from
Nor do I know whither I am going
I only know that I started in the past
And am...

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© MB Farookh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: birth, death, extended metaphor,

In The Silence
In your silence I see colours,
speech crumbling like flaking paint, dried; truth dripping from lips, black spittle on a brush.
In the silence I inhale the...

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Categories: metaphor, analogy,

How long do the stars live?
How long do the stars live in day or night?

Surrounded by darkness, till death they fight.

For all life had been given home.

When day break made,...

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Categories: day, extended metaphor, light,

Ink of the Islands
In the heart of the Pacific, where waves cradle secrets,
**Tatau** emerges—a sacred script etched upon skin,
A symphony of charcoal rivers, whispered stories,
**Samoan souls bloom**.

**Pe'a**, the...

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Categories: metaphor, appreciation, beautiful, devotion, freedom,

Premium Member Beyond Words, A Rose By Any Other Name
("The Longest Journey", 2020, original encaustic)

Beyond Words, A Rose By Any Other Name…

Everybody’s talkin’ ‘bout it
because it, is all there is.
Like there is but one...

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Categories: extended metaphor, spiritual,


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