Yourself Metaphor Poems
These Yourself Metaphor poems are examples of Metaphor poems about Yourself. These are the best examples of Metaphor Yourself poems written by international poets.
Throw Yourself In
Without a challenge life’s moribund
nought to anticipate, not much fun
...
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Categories:
metaphor, motivation,
My Fellow PoetsDoes not matter what they say..
Poetry is easy but it’s not poetry…
Hallmark cliché is not a poem I am afraid..
You can spot a poet.. By...
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Categories:
metaphor, appreciation, art, dark, deep,
Saint Catherine Was ExcaliburI always said tether to the void
Not any idealistic reason or choice
Now suspended I know why I’ve been devoid
Because how can one speak with an...
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metaphor, adventure, conflict, corruption, crazy,
Sea GlassYou were new and unguarded,
Thoughtlessly discarded -
You gave yourself for what?
Broken and badly shaken,
Used once and forsaken,
You could only...
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Categories:
metaphor, adventure, girl, heartbreak, life,
Delusions of GrandeurWhy does the mouse disguise itself as a rat?
Because it has delusions of grandeur.
The mouse thinks it must win in life,
And to win in life...
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Categories:
allusion, animal, metaphor,
BricksBrick by brick, I built this home,
each piece with purpose, in which it owns.
It was the hardest task I ever did face,
As I made sure...
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Categories:
confusion, extended metaphor, faith,
Accidental ShadeListen to me
You are giving your energy
Your time
Your focus
To someone
who would already be
The thing they are
If they ever were
And this does...
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Categories:
emotions, heartbreak, love, metaphor,
CleavingYou 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,
'Silly' Me“Life is too short to be serious all the time. So, if you can’t laugh at yourself, call me and I’ll laugh at you.” -...
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Categories:
metaphor, confidence, growing up, happiness,
The simplicity of yearningThe simplicity of yearning. It burns softly, like a hand grazing over a candle. A mouth full of sweet nothings to be spilled onto the...
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Categories:
metaphor, angst, change, conflict, dark,
Your Way Out is Through the Garden
seventeen years we went before I knew your friends
names you barely know now and you kept them
absent from me as you keep yourself still,...
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Categories:
age, extended metaphor,
Live In My Heart, Rent-Free
Live in my heart, rent-free
Now and forever...
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Categories:
analogy, encouraging, love, metaphor,
Oh black AfricanOh, 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,
naturally protective reflex
Mayonnaise in my mouth;
it was turkey—the first Pollack
I saw. His fault that the splatter
looked like a forgotten egg on...
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Categories:
allusion, extended metaphor, symbolism,
Honey, You Can't be a Shark if You're ToothlessYou'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,