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Metaphor Relationship Poems

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


Premium Member Puzzling Relationship
Puzzling Relationship 

Our edges seem so similar
Meant to fit, snuggly together 
The tongue of your dry humor
Locks into the Grove of my clever wit
Forming attachments...

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Categories: relationship, change, divorce, extended metaphor,



Polar Plunge into Apathy
A frigid fall out
Melodrama multiplied
Gloss over my faults...

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Categories: relationship, betrayal, break up, meaningful,

The Map
I stand with a treasure map,
no X to mark the spot.
A scattering of clues,
roadmaps of endless dots.

Your name is on an envelope,
surely that’s proof enough?
But...

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Categories: relationship, analogy,

Another Chance To Dance
I have seen that house a hundred times,
The one upon which the old vine climbs.
So poignant and so melancholy,
That place had once been the omphali.
Now...

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Categories: relationship, forgiveness, hope, loss, missing

Bookshelf
Biographies of different kinds,
Orwell with Atwood, intertwined,
Old books, new books, a thousand rhymes,
Keeping their words, holding those lines,
Singing caged birds, sit whistling chimes,
Histories, mysteries, marking...

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Categories: relationship, books, history, imagery, metaphor,



I Need Space
You overwhelm me 
Warm like the sun
But also like gravity.

My last view of you 
Kaleidoscopes.
A brilliant new galaxy.
...

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Categories: relationship, absence, extended metaphor, planet,

Play
I'm infactuated by the way you say my name
Captivated by this game you said we're playing
I don't know the rules, they seem to change everyday
But...

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Categories: relationship, dedication, games, love, metaphor,

In The Silence
In your silence I see colours,
speech crumbling like flaking paint, dried; truth dripping from lips, black spittle on a brush.
In the silence I inhale the...

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Categories: relationship, analogy,

Premium Member Fireball
a yearning of alabaster guilt given birth
from this mouth of words mesmerising
like rings of Saturn, behold encroached
by your retort, cutting if not comic, life
adjacent to...

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Categories: relationship, emotions, kiss, love, passion,

Premium Member wabi-sabi
the cracks begin to show   and flawless floors
are not what shift and shatter here

but fear   a frangible tear   gold...

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Categories: life, metaphor, relationship,

Premium Member Love-Hate
you put your silks and satins 
in me, a darkened abattoir
I see your pain, a summer crisis
staring sometimes for minutes
it's a love hate relationship
it's a...

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Categories: relationship, earth, metaphor, mother, nature,

Premium Member She Took My Hand
look at my hands, they're not
the hands of a fisherman
they're not the hands of a carpenter
look at my hands and tell me
how many miles do...

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Categories: relationship, inspiration, metaphor, poetry, poets,

Premium Member Hand In Hand
I wasn't going to say anything
in that leafy Lincoln street
when you caught me pondering my life
and the many ways to die
but there was something about...

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Categories: relationship, deep, friendship, mental illness,

Premium Member Heatseeker
That was strike two but you’re the only one keeping score
I didn't realize there were heart strings attached
You know I have trouble listening 
Yet you're...

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Categories: extended metaphor, love, relationship,

Premium Member Inner Voice
Nicorates warned me about you
not so much with words
more in dubiety, 
a clairaudient hesitation

imagine an experienced woodworm
widely travelled and well read 
making peace with a...

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Categories: relationship, anxiety, friend, introspection, life,


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