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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.


Break on through
Take a battering ram to the other side
The recoil will do me harm
A knife and spoon will suffice
Break the gates violently with arms
It will seal...

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Categories: addiction, extended metaphor, god,



Premium Member The Submisive Loser Dominant Victors Shower Of Rage
The Naked brazen placid blue
Meets its foe the dark forbidding nemeses
Who unleashes his growing anger and fury
Obliterating and defeating his enemy
Proclaims a victory and unrolls...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anger, birth, conflict, metaphor,

Cleaving
You stripped the jungles of the world
You blew the hunting horn
You chased the beasts out of the field
You pricked the bloody thorn

You drove the leper...

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Categories: cancer, metaphor, truth, war,

Premium Member The Moral Compass
The bombs of justice overcome the bombs of terror
The drones of peace fight back the drones of war
Some gnostics claimed this world was the God’s...

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Categories: extended metaphor, fantasy,

Tempest of the Mind
Deep in my shrewd mind, a storm rages on 
Dark clouds gather as the wind howls till dawn
A tempest of thoughts, I cannot control
A battle...

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Categories: metaphor, conflict, how i feel,



SAMADHI
SAMADHI

I am the Void
                   and THE ALL
I...

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Categories: metaphor, 12th grade, dance, extended

The Symphony of Blemishes
In the moonlit tapestry, where the scars unfold,
Silent tales etched in the surface's ground,
Each mark is a chapter, a story untold,
In the silk of time,...

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Categories: metaphor, beautiful, feelings, inspirational love,

THE WARRIOR
I was born into a war 
I was born into a war 
I Was born into this war 
And I couldn’t even talk 
I didn’t...

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Categories: metaphor, analogy, fate, loss, mental

Premium Member Intrusive yet intriguing
It came in the night
Unannounced and silent
To proclaim 
To torment the very thought 
Of a unitive reality
Strategically  moving 
As though life was nothing more...

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© Roger Harp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, conflict, deep, emotions, extended

Premium Member Komorebi
i Trees

A kaleidoscope cathedral rustling,
hustling life-light into every thinning limb.
Earth-emblems embalming every rogue
marauding cell in resin. Violent poppies
dripping blood-petals on never-ending war.
Wood knots are eyes,...

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Categories: imagery, light, metaphor, nature,

Real War Reality
In the war there are no birds
but flying firecrackers
flowers don't smell good
but they stink horribly.
waters are murky,
grey sky,
dark clouds
artificial nights
and days obscure
love kills peace
hate completes...

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Categories: allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,

Sympathy For Peace
Zionist
for Israel, but
I don't invest,
in WAR...
I'm a pacifist...
For Arab 
as for any other people
being legalistic
without exclusivist predilection...
for peaceful solution
no arms race
calm conversation
harmonious division
brotherhood in view
without...

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Categories: extended metaphor, inspirational, peace,

Premium Member Parasite
Translucent vials of blood collected
You possessed so much more than I expected 
And still you search for more to inspire

Day was breaking but you found...

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Categories: death, extended metaphor, fantasy,

Poetic Theraphy
Since birth,
 my body has been
 a battlefield,
 mined by firecrackers
 of unequal feelings...
 I treat my wounds,
 since time immemorial...
I live in a state...

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Categories: metaphor, adventure, allegory, analogy, extended

Premium Member I Can Be Your Enemy Or I Can Be Your Friend
Travels make the mind wise
Wise enough to know
Everywhere you go is change
That comes either fast or slow
The Sun can be an enemy
Or the sun can...

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Categories: blessing, chanukah, extended metaphor,


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