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Summer Metaphor Poems

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


Incandescent
noon’s furnace: asphalt shimmers; air—thick, slow—
cracks open. cicadas drill through stagnant gold.
a sprinkler’s hiccup-hiss: the pavement’s glow
un/curls in steam. the hydrant’s shout: uncontrolled.

children shriek!—a liquid...

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Categories: meaningful, metaphor, poetry, symbolism,



Premium Member The Darkest Night
Even the darkest night will end
And the sun will rise
Will you come to see me then
I’ll be quite surprised
Same as you - what an encounter
You...

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Categories: depression, extended metaphor, grief,

Premium Member SUMMER JUXTAPOSITION
A SUMMER JUXTAPOSITION)

Wow…90 degrees!
Suddenly, white clouds...dark blue:
Then, steaming rain falls

...

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Categories: extended metaphor, hyperbole, imagery,

Memory at the Door
She knocks on my rib cage 
seeking access to my heart again

The knock—the pounding pestle—
taunts, its echo won’t stand to be ignored
I hold my knees...

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Categories: horror, memory, metaphor, scary,

pop goes the summer

grains in sunglasses,
one pops with enthusiasm—
too much heat to chill....

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Categories: metaphor, summer,



golden laughter

golden husks aglow,
laughter pops beneath the sun,
waves applaud the show....

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Categories: metaphor, sea, summer,

THE CARNAGE SEWN
As this life now quickly drifts away, 
                 ...

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Categories: metaphor, 8th grade, 9th grade,

Lady Wonder
No, I ain’t wrote.
I’ve been caught up
In the greatest things they say
Life has to offer.

But, in the midst
Of all my success,
I find myself feeling
Oddly like...

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Categories: metaphor, fantasy, grief, inspiration, longing,

Ecstatic elevator

Bonfire branches 
swaying in summer 
dress 
At the riverside 
playing with the wind 
A long tress 


Snaking curves 
In the rippling river 
A summer spree...

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Categories: image, imagery, metaphor,

Juxtapositions of Soul
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   embedded in avatar’s 
sequential chromosomes 
novel_sprite_ageless___BIRTHED 
Soul protected       simultaneously...

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Categories: metaphor, allusion, change, character, deep,

NATURAL POETRY


summer peaks are coming
cicadas are singing za, zi zi, zi...!

How many whispers of time,
flower, fire, rain, cold...
earthly dreams in cycles...!

New shoots on the earth,
renewal crying...

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Categories: allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,

Premium Member SUMMER RAIN
SUMMER RAIN

God cried today
His tears fertilizing 
The womb of 
Mother Earth:

The wet smell
Of nature’s essence
Saturated the air
As moist breeze blew
Breath of new life
Into dried hopes
Wilted...

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Categories: allegory, extended metaphor, high

Soul Rose Fulcrum
 my soul-rose has a fulcrum 
sometimes
veined petals spread a  c  R    o   Ss 

skies unknown
  ...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, allusion, change, character,

spring turned into fall
Heartbreak is rising heat in spring.
Summer welded my heart back together, 
Fall leaves reminded me that time has passed so effortlessly.
You’re turning into a faded...

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Categories: change, happy, metaphor,

Premium Member Fulcrum of a Rose
When the raspberry horizon 
  is curled up, 
shaping caramel-lilac lips 
  of the cashmere kismet, 
   singing in a choir...

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Categories: deep, emotions, life, metaphor,


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