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Son Metaphor Poems

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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,

African son

I'm an African son
From my mother's womb
I brought the colour of chocolate 
To be the son of soil

All strong, all articulate 
Born skilled, born the...

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Categories: metaphor, black love, confidence, destiny,

Oh black African

Oh, you African!
 Of cocoa skin and black-haired 
Like your judgments 

You African!
 The lamb in the elections 
Son of the people, wandering in the...

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Categories: metaphor, 9th grade, abuse, africa,

RISING SON SHUNS THE DARKNESS WITH HIS LIGHT-

dark is the light pur-
-posed so right the light over
comes the dark there's light  
~
 victory in the 
darkness flees so it runs with...

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Categories: metaphor, analogy, appreciation, imagery, life,

Honey, You Can't be a Shark if You're Toothless

You're a fool for starting the friction 
But I'm a fool for starting the motion 
F you, no I’m a fool for believing the notion
And...

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Categories: betrayal, extended metaphor, goodbye,

Regret Bleeds To Longing

Regret beats down like rain
Longing is like a still aquifer
No matter how I cup my hands
Regrets slip through my fingers
Filters underground to longing

All my failures...

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Categories: extended metaphor, longing, ocean,

Dear Mama

dear Mama, have you found that other side
      where loved ones, hope and heaven all reside?
    ...

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Categories: grief, heartbroken, loss, metaphor,

Can You Hold Onto a Peach

In the winter of my years, stands my barren tree
Its leaves stripped by autumnal winds
Against hope, it had one life left to give
I blew a...

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Categories: extended metaphor, father son,

Magicians

-  I give you a son!
     said a beloved woman!
        - I make...

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Categories: allusion, magic, metaphor,

Son Everso Shine On Me-

Ever so shine on me
Sunshine beams
Warm rays 
Warm my heart
Fill my body, with your rays

Sunshine empower me
With essential vitamin D
Ever embrace through me
Holy energies

Warm rays...

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Categories: metaphor, analogy, appreciation, caregiving, jesus,

Scouring Self-Loathing

Evict me from this grimy house
My son asked me what self-loathing is
His home still occupied with laughter
I was taken aback by his cleanliness
I told him...

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Categories: metaphor, bible, depression, home, house,

Historical 'Meta' For Re-Legioning

roman times meant...
roam'n soldiers
conquered villages...

by killing the men and
fathering a...
next generation of

soldier-sons to sacrifice...
themselves for
sake of the empire...

first the father
and then the son...
became wholly ghost


stans...

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Categories: metaphor, religion, war,

I Am a Flower Growing In Him-

There is something on the inside of me and it's growing?
Jesus
There is something trying to hinder me trying to deny?
What I thrive
Distant unbelief!  ...

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Categories: metaphor, analogy, appreciation, engagement, god,

This I Am True Light

THIS I AM TRUE LIGHT

I am part of His true light
I dress in His righteousness
I need His true light coming unto this world
I am related...

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Categories: metaphor, analogy, encouraging, god, inspirational,

Serendipity

SERENDIPITY 

Serendipity, a promise of destiny, 
In the middle of the night, you dream,
You cry every time, for the revelation to find,
God’s promise, Word spoken,...

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Categories: conflict, extended metaphor, family,