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Metaphor River Poems

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


A river

Jasmine aroma 
riding the evening winds 
Blinds draw them inside 
Arms are intertwined 

Water collects 
in the high hills 
Looking for a gate
to melt its...

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Categories: river, image, imagery, metaphor,



Wordless Peace
The river moves but never dies,
It carries all it cannot keep.
Beneath its glass, the silence lies,
A cradle where the old dreams sleep.

I watch it wind...

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Categories: river, emotions, introspection, metaphor, peace,

In the Cradle
Forged in the cradle of crumbling stone,
The river murmured like an elder's song, 
A silver thread through earth’s old bones,
Unraveling what never should belong.

Like lightning...

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Categories: river, growth, identity, introspection, life,

The River Runs
It brings to mind a question: why?
Why does the river run?
Does it need to?
Why is it considered peaceful?
And can it be obtained by other means?
And...

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Categories: river, 12th grade, anxiety, depression,

National Poetry Month
GHOST, RIVER, SHIVER, MASTICATE, COLD, POMPOUS

The cold wind swirled the mist all along the bank,
The ferryman held onto the boat, whilst the gentleman walked across...

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Categories: river, bereavement, deep, fate, imagination,



Silent Storms
A weir holds back the river 
against the flow of the morning tide 
I wonder how many thoughts,
unspoken, lie behind its barrier-
ponderings of love, turmoil,...

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Categories: river, day, imagery, metaphor, morning,

Our Natural State
Beneath the noise of borrowed truths
and the weight of clocks that chime with urgency,
there lies a quiet field—vast, untamed,
where the soul remembers its original name.
No...

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Categories: river, autumn, beauty, imagery, metaphor,

Wild Is The Night
The night unravels like a tattered black sail,
its edges fraying with whispers of secrets too heavy to hold.
Stars—fractured shards of a forgotten mirror—
pierce the dark...

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Categories: river, dream, earth, imagery, metaphor,

Ephemeral Time
Sifting through the sands of time
Ephemeral it fades away
As water flows down the river
It's constantly on the move
Time and tide waits for no one
Instead of...

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Categories: river, death, dream, earth, imagery,

A Transcendental Journey
In my travels 
I seek thee
Amongst the snow capped mountains,
The scenic valleys,
Meandering rivers 
That meets the turquoise sea
The rolling meadows 
And sprinkling streams
The azure sky...

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Categories: god, metaphor, mountains, river,

Premium Member Deciduous
My springtime blood did flow a river’s rush  
in stream bed’s cradle anchored to the land  
as dreams rode jet streams to the...

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Categories: river, birth, imagery, life, metaphor,

Premium Member Ambiguity
A river's flow, a double tide 
With mirrored banks, where truths reside.

One current whisper, secrets deep 
The other sings, a lullaby to sleep.

The water's edge,...

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Categories: extended metaphor, feelings, river,

A River's Course
To those for whom the love of life
                 ...

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Categories: river, beautiful, beauty, encouraging, how

Memories
Flowing water is
Like memories that catches
Your regard sometimes....

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Categories: meaningful, memory, metaphor, river,

Where The River Cries
The poet hears the river’s cry
In the flow of waters going by

Ebb and flow, calm and storm
The poet finds the river’s form

In verse – in...

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Categories: metaphor, poetry, poets, river,


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