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Rain Metaphor Poems

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


The Shape of Absence
And I remember the rain before it ever started—
the smell of asphalt humming like old vinyl static under my ribs.
You were talking about birds, maybe,
or...

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© Evelyn Hew  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor,



NEW WAVE ASCENDS
 NEW WAVE ASCENDS

Workers waul at leaders sold
who rush to airports cold 
in hospitals wan women wallow 
tattered children nothing to swallow 
ideals trickling through...

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Categories: metaphor, 12th grade, change, earth,

RUSTED MILES
An ominous trail
in their dark ashes—
each ellipsis
hid a treacherous bend.
I feel the camper’s
hollow rattle
between cracked ribs
that won’t quite mend.

Not their youth,
but mine—
still burning
in oil-smoke haze
too...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, hurt, inspirational, loneliness, lost

We Live in Denial
In blackest halls, a phosphorescent light
Shines forth from darkest depths, a honey glow.
Enraged, ignited, I now blinding bright,
A magma burning, pyroclastic flow,

Torching golden beams to...

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Categories: metaphor, analogy, anxiety, depression, extended

The Silent Language of Earth
In the quiet dance of earthen form,
Where roots entwine and life is born,
Approach with a heart as steady as stone,
Grounded in truth, where seeds are...

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© kjeld vk  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: life, metaphor, nature,



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,

Stormy Days
You, strong sun that soars, crumbles down tonight, 
A stormy day arrives at your bright face, 
The sunny rays are nowhere in my sight, 
A...

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Categories: 11th grade, love, metaphor,

Premium Member The Prismatic Self
Caressing the floral frame, I see reflecting in my eyes
A question of perspective, of purpose, of the prize.
Am I looking to gain favour? Do I...

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Categories: extended metaphor,

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

Song of April
Forget the night’s storm
when you get out of bed.
Forget lightning and thunder
the way the house trembled
Forget your deepest fears
that the world would end,

Open your eyes.

Embrace...

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Categories: april, death, life, 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,

In the inferno of night
a whisper of loss 
a phantom lace
a ghostly touch

fingers close, cold to taste
lingers laughter 
cracked bone-dry air
the clock chimes midnight 

it is backward here
in this...

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Categories: metaphor, angst, art, death, deep,

Fertile Field

The dark earth breathes a silent potent lung,
Where buried dreams in patient stillness hung.
A canvas vast, unfurrowed, waiting deep,
For life's first tremor, secrets it will...

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Categories: metaphor,

Premium Member Plagued by Memories

Like an albatross enfolded around my silencing throat,  
squeezing ever tighter,  
asphyxiating on sins not of my own.  
A scarlet letter has...

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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dark, death, extended metaphor,

Premium Member OF GOD'S HEAVENLY RAIN: A HAIKU TRIO
The rain is of God,
watering his divine love;
hydrating all life:-

Evaporating,
God's rain ascends heavenly;
condensding to earth:-

Raining tears of grief,
always, via God, become
healing tears of joy:-...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, analogy, deep, extended


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