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Metaphor Race Poems

These Metaphor Race poems are examples of Race poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Race Metaphor poems written by international poets.


14-4-2024
My family spoke two languages
I’m not the same
Results came in still thankless
Feels weird to be diagnosed anxious
Results so plain
I’m still hiding under several blankets
I ain’t...

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© R.P. Grcic  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: race, abuse, addiction, childhood, extended



Race the Wind
I rode my steed to race the wind, tracking the setting sun
His spirit was true and his soul knew too, his heart and mine were...

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Categories: race, metaphor,

A Ravenous Rhyme
Jen, the human race is in a rush.

Still, 
you remain calm
Like the heavenly ornament
Painted by Gods brush....

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Categories: race, allusion, creation, god, metaphor,

Premium Member The Human Race
you planned your race
to run at pace
and win at any cost
but ran too fast
and finished last
so the prize you sought was lost.

had you taken time
to...

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Categories: life, metaphor, race, stress,

Violets Quiver
Neck pulsating, close shave shines over whiskers
    Stiff collar pressure, raced anticipation simmers
    Key twist intrigue spurs engine's orange...

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Categories: race, adventure, africa, car, extended



Cracked Glass House Experiment
Imagine being born into the world as a guinea pig. An experiment that as the ‘master’ of this guinea pig, you have a complete rule...

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© Mr Pickles  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: race, animal, conflict, confusion, environment,

Premium Member Raggedy Shoes Don'T Speak None Nor Do They Run-
I have raggedy
shoes with a long tongue yet my
shoes don't speak none their 
~
silent souls searching
for something to say this day
as the latchets tied
~
in the...

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Categories: race, adventure, analogy, crazy, metaphor,

Premium Member Complexions of Being
We are complexions of being,
gradations of actualization.
Our nature coming to be or passing away, 
Aristotle wrote. 

Mere complexions of being,
gradations of ontology.
In every American thing...

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Categories: race, america, irony, metaphor, philosophy,

Life Is a Race of Obstacles
The life is
an thrilling racing of
obstacles...
the heart is
who guides us
in this show,
the poetry unravels
the tentacles, when
poet transforms living
his oracle...!...

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Categories: race, adventure, allusion, life, metaphor,

Self-Deprecating Joke and Humor
Read this in conjunction with my previous poem, when I wanted to be white

The Amazing Coconut. Why is it amazing?
It is like the people of...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: race, analogy, color, confusion, fruit,

The Race
Downhill dart
In a hard rain
Brakes squeeling loudly
Yielding no refrain 
No line to start
Only a race to begin
Staring at death 
Not expecting to win
Trophy worth taking
The...

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Categories: race, age, car, journey, metaphor,

Numbed
Speckles of dusts sparkled through soul
Numbed from dreams that held cost
Rumbles awaiting to carry forth whole
Staying awake to what was lost

Arrays of light washing clean
Inside...

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Categories: race, dream, heaven, imagination, metaphor,

Premium Member Grandmother Moses Speaks
I was minding our own ancient business,
making maple and brown sugar oatmeal
for my constantly
and instantly 
devouring daughter,
when GrandMother Moses
of Poetic Narrative
broke into my day:

frankly, I...

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Categories: race, anger, fear, gender, health,

Premium Member Pillow Fight
My handsome brown-skinned husband
was once again velvet-voiced complaining
just this morning
while I was staring
glaring at my overstuffed sock drawer,

"You are so consistently ambivalent
and reliably inconsistent
I have...

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Categories: race, games, health, humor, husband,

Premium Member To Run the Race, Human
~   to win and be envied, or lose and be pitied ... both are bitter fruits   ~






~ 1st Place ~ ...

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Categories: race, analogy, appreciation, life, metaphor,


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