CREATION OF MAN Section Sistine Chapel Ceiling 1511 -MICHELANGELO
Categories:
metaphor, allegory, art, character, creation,
Form: Ekphrasis
haiku : hiku13 : hustler
hawk watches him intent
magnetic hustler chases wild ~
bulging eyes fast fade
h ...
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Categories:
bird, emotions, extended metaphor,
Form: Haiku
IN THE GARDENING OF LIFEIN THE GARDENING OF LIFE
We are as the sun,
Our survival is of God;
Though down, we shall rise:-
We’ve sown bad seeds before,
And have had to plow them up:-
God’s fruit
Will never spoil,
Its sweetness is endless;
Its love, eternal:-
In the garden of life,
Each sunset has a sunrise:
Just check out Eden:-
Though we have sown worse seeds,
We’ve survived what was reaped:-
Hey,...
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Categories:
analogy, encouraging, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
IN LIFE'S GREAT EQUATIONIN LIFE’S GREAT EQUATION
Circling myself in a triangle spirit,
Today I squared all my efforts,
And my results doubled:
I added good and got better,
Subtracted evil, and got best;
And when I cubed this,
I achieved more-better-best:-
As weird as it may sound,
Rounding out everything,
It appears that at day's end,
I had a solid and blessed one:
All praises be for my life’s...
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Categories:
allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
LETS KEEP OUR LIBERATING CUPS OVERFLOWING
LET’S KEEP OUR LIBERATING CUPS OVERFLOWING
(Apropos Of Ancestral Cup And Saucer Ways)
It has been said that justice
Is getting what you deserve:
The gift of grace, given priceless,
Flowing from God’s sacred reserve:-
Curiously, I asked Papa one day,
Why does he drink his coffee from the cup?
Always pouring mine into his saucer;
And here is what, to me, he...
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Categories:
metaphor, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
OblivionBillions of galaxies,
Plenty of planets,
Moons and suns,
Unfathomable stars,
Bountiful black holes,
Drastic darkness,
Yet on this esoteric earth
My minute head is
Filled with frivolous
And quizzical questions,
“What should I have for dinner?”
“Am I going to be a winner?”
Funny how we take everything
For granted guilelessly,
The thing we call life,
Feels like a distraction sometimes,
Birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, funerals,
Imbecilic circle,
Just like a...
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Categories:
deep, earth, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Is a Mirror Just a MirrorA 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 you.
It doesn't bend, it doesn't fake,
It captures truths you cannot break.
But mirror hide in the other forms–
In quiet thoughts, in silence storms.
In words that bruise, in eyes that know,
In...
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Categories:
metaphor, remember, strength, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
His Sunset Years in his sunset years he daily
traversed a mile to smile
waiting
w a t c h i n g
A L E R T
the lilt of phantomic voice to
O P E N his
...
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Categories:
allusion, change, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
MONA LISA : Leonardo da Vinci : 1503 enigmatically enlightened
embodied essence of
o__live imperceptible
darkly moon-fragrant purity a__live
still knowingness of rippled
...
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Categories:
metaphor, allegory, allusion, art, color,
Form: Ekphrasis
as we metamorphoseas we metamorphose
sponsor : Unseeking
Seeker
submitted : 11/6/25
two points of a straight line
birth and death that need to
lightly kiss, after plunging depths
dissolve scars, burns from rock
fires, drawings in mud or deserts
falling through dream spaces
crossing grids ferocious...
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Categories:
metaphor, allusion, change, character, creation,
Form: Free verse
Intrusive Thoughts
Categories:
extended metaphor, life, self,
Form: Rhyme
MUSIC TO THE EYESThe rising and setting
Of the sun…
The waxing and waning
Of the moon…
The orchestrated constellations
Of the beaming stars…
The staccato positionings
Of the planets…
The andante asteroids, comets,
And nebulae…
The soprano and baritone
Lighting and thunder…
All a beautiful canvasing
Galactic symphony…
Cosmic 24-hour live stream
Music to the eyes…
...
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Categories:
metaphor, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Potential
my potential, an entity I've put on a pedestal
I spend my days climbing her ridiculously high ladder with gift-wrapped handmade blades; only leaving when her skin is ripped & her dreams for me fade, little by little
The cruelty of my actions is but merely protection from rejection
I need her to let me go,but she...
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Categories:
metaphor, anxiety, conflict, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
The death of a sonWhat if I can't continue,
evolving into this mystery?
What if the story dies with me
grabbing and pulling at the hands of reality,
what then?
Do the stars continue to plot their courses
in an ocean of black?
or do they just fade away?
Will the universe drift mournfully
acknowledging the loss of a sun?
Do at last the heavens...
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Categories:
metaphor, death, death of a
Form: Free verse
The Circadian ShadowLet the brief time be cast away,
Let the movable thread be loosely handled,
Let the shadow be cast on you,
Let the water flow over the distant edges.
But when you know you’ll never get the wanderer back,
Even as you cast him off,
When you tally the drifters,
They’re all misplaced and undone.
The Moirai will let him go,
Because, you know,
You...
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Categories:
destiny, extended metaphor, light,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Metaphor Poems
Read wonderful metaphor poetry on the following sub-topics:
animal, family, friends, football, kids, lion, love, loneliness, moon, nature, yourself
and more.
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Poems Related to Metaphor
symbol, image, analogy, similitude, emblem, personification, allegory, hope, metonymy, trope,