Metaphor Repetition Poems

sitting at a table
not eating

sitting
at
a table

not

eating


...

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How can you be ice and fire at the same time?
How can you be docile and fierce at the same time?
How can you smile and...

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Oh, my beloved toaster,
How you start my day with delight.
Your warm embrace, a comforting boast,
A breakfast staple in every right.

With your sleek design and metallic...

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In the book of fire 
& 
all that blazes
In the words of praises, 
Burning fast
They are hard bright
…it blares white.

This is my desire 
But...
What is...

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When is a house, not a house
but a home, a place to call your own 
a box to fill with treasures 
of heart and objets...

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Stumble across the threshold of memory into places I’ve known or unseen and only relived in deepest dreams…

Clutching the candle of revelation high, its silken...

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Who shall restore our land's dignity
When plundered by thieves
Who frolic about in the corridors of power 
How shall we escape 
From the lashes of history?...

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This challenging task has now begun—
 I don’t know how long the test will run
But will continue faithfully until it’s all done.

I did not choose...

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I am the queen of self destruction.
Ritualistic Razor sharp scrutiny of my reflection -
constantly spewing hate at my mid-section, 
whilst effortlessly faking the pursuit of...

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Beyond this door
lies the regions of anything 
Everything 
and nothing at all 
what is hidden
until it’s time to see what is coming 
and that is...

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Kindness Repeats

Life has ups and downs 
Friends will stay around 
While outlook bright on good days 
Who knows what’s ahead?  
When you’re half dead...

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On site of this forgotten Babylon
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in this annihilated place
What strange creature’s kin
to inhuman race
Dwell deep in antediluvian hells 
Uncanny...

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WINTERS HOUSE 
Black, bare in despair 
alone to nowhere 
On a corner crossroads to everywhere
Sits a house half-forgotten 
a house full of itself and memories
Dark...

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(Apropos Of Juneteenth Celebration)

This is the day the Lord has made;
Let us rejoice and celebrate
Because we’re still here…marching on
With our eyes stayed on the prize.
Let...

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We dream of rain... 
And the mystery of the gun
We bold hold and driven apart 
Kill the king when lovers depart
We dream of rain and...

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