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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.


Your Smile Is As Cute As A Baby Seal's
Your smiles frozen over,
and you stand tall above the water
like an iceberg, so tall and elegant
in your presentation.

But surface-level trickery
can’t fool or satiate
my scuba diver
curiosity.

I...

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Categories: metaphor, 10th grade, 11th grade,



A beautiful lie
I wonder how it truly feels to be loved.

Is it like the minutes before the sun rises,
 when it begins to shine so bright,
 and...

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© Issey Ali  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, betrayal, break up, confusion,

What is love?
What is love, really—
a figment of hope
sharp enough to shatter
centuries of lived patriarchy?

To think
education could make a dent
in what’s already carved
in bone & name.

To think
a...

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Categories: metaphor, angst, conflict, confusion, cry,

Premium Member You're My Superhero
You're my superhero and you don't even know why
Its because you're there for every pain hurt and cry
You're there for those who matter excluding yourself
Superheros...

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Categories: metaphor,

Is a Mirror Just a Mirror
A mirror isn't just a frame,
A sheet of glass that speaks your name.
It shows your image. Yes, it's true–
But now the whole of what is...

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Categories: metaphor, remember, strength, symbolism,



A Steelhead Forced to Live in a Puddle
His spawning would be free and dedicated to those that were beholding of his challenges, those that began ahead of this time, those that look...

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Categories: metaphor,

All I hear is Mold
made out of clay to fit a mold
not always molded how we would want to be
well, most of us share the same mold
but the mold...

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Categories: analogy, beautiful, metaphor, mystery,

Advisory for Adversary
The sun unfolds, precisely peeking through
the light of stars, dominating ink-spilled nights. 
Its rays graze softly on blooming wounds 
as sirens set off warnings of...

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Categories: metaphor, adventure, anxiety, growth, hope,

Worship
The sodium street lights
Your few striped freckles
The makeshift tattoo on my palm
A couple? Never. It's always been a triple or even a single at best,
A...

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© Abijah H.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: extended metaphor,

The Mile Long Tree
Kill off the Mile Long Tree
For anyone who cares only cares about everyone
Revelation in mind, we don't feel the same
You should sort through your thick...

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© Abijah H.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, psychological, relationship,

Premium Member A Lantern Made of Suicide Notes: Suicide by Metaphors
I. The Hour of Approach

The poem I was writing refused to end—  
it kept writing me.  
Blood didn't ink these lines—  
the...

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Categories: metaphor, creation, literature, mental health,

Premium Member A PERSPECTIVE VIBE FROM ME TO YOU
 A PERCEPTIVE VIBE FROM ME TO YOU

Come sit and vibe with me
With an open mind receptacle;
Listen to my pouring out of positivity
And to what...

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Categories: metaphor, encouraging, inspirational, introspection, life,

Premium Member Interview with a Barnacle
The recorder clicks on.

What made you stay?

I didn’t stay.
I fastened.
I was made to fasten.
And if you're made to fasten,
you look for something moving.
Something strong enough
to...

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Categories: extended metaphor,

Premium Member A PERCEPTIVE VIBE FROM ME TO YOU
Come sit and vibe with me,
With an open mind receptacle;
Listen to my pouring out of positivity
And to what you may find acceptable:-

Oh, in the challenges...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, encouraging, inspirational, life,

Premium Member APROPOS OF GOD'S COMPASS: A TANKA TRIO
Be as the sun,
And doubt not the Son of God;
Your guiding compass:-
Divine guidance is your gift;
Praise God for each day’s dawning:-

After sleep, you wake,
There’s sunset...

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Categories: allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,


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