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War Metaphor Poems

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

Self-Portrait with My Shoebill Friend as We Rebrand Spirituality

This time,
Janice is wearing a priest collar
and I’m the altar.
She hisses when I open my Notes app
during communion,
calls me a heretic
for spellchecking my trauma.

I tell...

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Categories: extended metaphor, identity, myth,

INEVITALBILITY AND MORAL RELATIVITY

INEVITABILITY AND MORAL RELATIVITY

They say war is inevitable, and will always, with us, be;
But this audacious, mendacious attitude is not for you and me:-
Dropping Satanic...

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Categories: allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,

SURVIVOR POETRIX




          Hiroshima, Nagasaki 
       far beyond the atomic act, 
...

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Categories: allusion, extended metaphor, perspective,

A Literal Dick Measuring Contest

I laid down my long schlong 
On a table full of kong dongs
The judges had short tongs 
To flip the dongs flop
the men and women...

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Categories: anger, angst, extended metaphor,

god of men

Corrupt heart, depraved mind
A master of time, the weaver of trap
One whose mouth, falsehood emit
Gone from men, man and ghoul part and part

A victor, the...

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Categories: extended metaphor, identity, philosophy,

Murmurs of the Damned

Silt collects at the outreaches of an ancient, murky marsh.  
Twisted tendrils of white oleander form archaic symbols.  
Deviant rituals, cocooned and lost...

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Categories: dark, gothic, metaphor, poetry,

Brains and Guts: The Write, Right, Rite of Revolution

Brains and guts orbit the soul—
that polar star searing in the marrow of being.

I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons
Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of...

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Categories: metaphor, courage, destiny, history, imagery,

It Is What It Is!: Think About It

Love can not be hate,
And neither can peace be war:
Live in peace and love....

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Categories: metaphor, allegory,

Dog of war

You bury your only dog beneath a home of desecrated poppies.
Pup frozen from years of neglect, full of ignorance and stained of regret.
You claw at...

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Categories: metaphor, animal, dark, dog, earth,

Dune Perdue

    Updraft lifts limbs, leaves scurry like mice exposed
    Mother Nature shakes shorebreak, incline imposed
    Gnaws...

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Categories: animal, beach, bird, metaphor,

SILENT HOMES

SILENT HOMES

Silence 
            cloak of protection 
worn longing for
     ...

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Categories: metaphor, abuse, character, dark, emotions,

Nazriel Rising

Nazriel Rising Small World Ace

She was as pretty as ever on this night
With me smitten to bits with her aura
As we met on our usual...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, allusion, conflict, extended

ART



       


         Every form of art
     dignifies...

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Categories: metaphor, allusion, analogy, art, extended

FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE


  
 While Peace rains blessing love War thus fires mortal bombs and bullets...

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Categories: allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,

DIMNESS



      

        When there is no day,
      ...

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Categories: metaphor, allusion, analogy, dark, extended