Metaphor Narrative Poems

Hika Bay

Silent hawks appear
outside our window
two,then four,now six
form a floating dimond 

A kettle of hawks roam high
on ancient air
sent by first peoples
to remind us

We dont...

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yet his gait was limiting
to the harvest of shadows around him
breathing whatever air was there
at the time
and since his writing 
caught no-one's attention
and colourful birds...

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sitting at a table
not eating

sitting
at
a table

not

eating


...

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("The Longest Journey", 2020, original encaustic)

Beyond Words, A Rose By Any Other Name…

Everybody’s talkin’ ‘bout it
because it, is all there is.
Like there is but one...

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At the edge of the old cemetery,
I found an unkept grave.
It was though the person interned there, 
Had a soul no one could save.

Her tombstone...

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Magnolia hearts need not be brave,
For their tickets are only one way,
Routes unchallenged, straight to the grave,
I’d rather chase the vermillion fray. 

Though, that is...

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January’s trees,
unborn in freeze,
bare their branches,
ignore cold advances.
By the herald of spring,
my spirit shall learn to sing,
of cherry blossoms in bloom,
confetti I spiked with perfume.
Bridal...

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Face of femme fatale,
she soars across the sky,
lionhearted warrior,
asking all who catch her eye,
‘Tell me the creature,
with only one voice,
on all fours from morning,
two feet...

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Here lies Anna, 
lost without her mate,
he's promised to another,
an honour,
trapped within his fate.

Savage, this hand,
dealt in arcane amour,
her affection cannot placate, 
nor dictate,
that which...

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Man o' mine, bravest o’ sailors,
singing sea shanties with death,
he wades through icy glaciers,
o’ the frostiest breath.

Cling to vein and steady this vessel,
doldrum this destine...

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stop sitting in that Paris street
you know I hate it when you crash
through all the flags that people wear
and all the chords are played by...

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A desolate isle, where shadows dance,
In misty shrouds, a haunting trance.
Lost souls wander, lost in chance,
A tapestry woven in the realm's expanse.

Betwixt eerie mists and...

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you were never properly afraid of my antlers
in the grass that pierced our feet and the trains
kept on rolling by tracks I wished I'd made...

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She sits still, gazing at ivy trailing the garden wall
Verboten to seek any freedoms she saw
Every motion and musing metered for eyes of all
Her courage...

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"The Cure"

The world burns 
you rise like a phoenix
wrapping your wings of fire
around the smouldering innocent
ash of dreams and nightmares untold

each feather that falls 
a...

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