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Punctuationship When I met you, I was uncertain.
I kept my love behind a curtain.
Upon our romance we did embark,
But was I just a question mark?
You were exciting. You were sure.
In your feeling, you were secure.
You won...
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Categories:
humor, metaphor, relationship,
Form: Quatrain
When Silence SpeaksThis poem is written for the "When Silence Speaks" poetry contest.
Date Submitted: 07/05/2024
the air conditioner soothing my heated skin
fire brick curtains with their red dyed orange,
bumblebee rays peeking through gaps in between
they have so...
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Categories:
change, metaphor, mirror, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
The Third Wind1st wind, childhood
2nd wind, jobs, career
3rd wind, elder life.
...
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Categories:
adventure, life, meaningful, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
off wit the slops.
noth'n sounds more sweeter
than
the jamaican windz help'n
the salty wet slap 'gainst mine
...
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Categories:
metaphor, adventure, allegory, beautiful, blue,
Form: Romanticism
Cardsim playing cards with pandora
and she’s bleeding her hand
its so painfully obvious
i see her grand plan,
because calamities hit a set
and she’s feeling alright
but theres one card left
im holding hope tonight
and its hope which
keeps me...
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Categories:
metaphor, addiction, anxiety, hope, mental
Form: Rhyme
Shadows of the Eternal NightI inhabit a realm where contradiction and paradox intertwine, as intimately as vines warmed by Cleopatra's lips. By my very nature, I exist in a state of "woke" and in slumber, endowed with a divine...
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Categories:
art, evil, extended metaphor,
Form: Other
NO PLACE FOR POETS
There is no place for the poet...
We are all lost
In our last stages,
without having time
To leave...
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Categories:
allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Everything Just So
Green grass, cut once or twice weekly
A CEO might shave twice a day
Edges and hedges trimmed nicely too
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Categories:
metaphor, business, corruption, green, hair,
Form: Couplet
codependency
light …
and dark -
shadow and bright
are diametrically opposed
and intricately interdependent
we must learn to not fear the dark
for it holds the same delight, the same color
the same purpose and excitement
the same realizations … unseen
and it harbors...
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Categories:
metaphor, analogy, dark, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Sensation of Light - Linking Pin SonnetSensation of Light (Linking Pin Sonnet)
Like a Venus flytrap, you swayed in the night
Night raising the mind's trace of soft flowing light
Light of fragrance as a sweet rose moves and flows
Flows with sweetness, challenging all...
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Categories:
metaphor, angel, beauty, fantasy, inspiration,
Form: Sonnet
All That Rises Must FallHer spring returns to me, in death,
I shed a tear, alone,
for the weeping blossoms,
in the knowledge a moon will rise again,
before the rhythm of her breath,
turns out to be my own.
...
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Categories:
creation, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
a hot day and a smelterA hot day and a smelter
Is it in Qatar, or in Dubai a friendly aluminum
smelter for sale, the one in the picture on a TV add
looks ok
Now that my wife is on holiday with her...
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Categories:
color, creation, extended metaphor,
Form: Blank verse
They Gathered Outside My House
They gathered outside- I'm alone,
and at my back window, I groan!
I think- what is this
my hubby will miss?
Then, quickly I reach for my phone!
"We're being invaded, my dear!
Please quickly come home, for I fear
these huge...
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Categories:
emotions, fate, funny, metaphor,
Form: Limerick
the strange flower.
Not the
Perennial
For
The flower showed
Past
Twice
Mine winterz
Mine prayer answered
That the flower
Be not the biennial
for
Appear yesss
Did it
For mine
Rest
Bloomed
Beaming
Thoroughly arresting
Sequestering
Mine
the eccentric
bard
...
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Categories:
metaphor, adventure, analogy, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Carpe Diem
DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDEDr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Jovial Dr Jekyll played for juvenile Justice
a just jaspered journey
jokingly jumped...
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Categories:
12th grade, extended metaphor,
Form: Alliteration
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.
Definition | What is Metaphor in Poetry?
Poems Related to Metaphor
symbol, image, analogy, similitude, emblem, personification, allegory, hope, metonymy, trope,