Rain Metaphor Poems

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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