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Metaphor Sestina Poems

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

When They Exhume My Poems

When I die
I give the Pulitzer Board 
Permission
To exhume my lyrics

And some overweight ME
Will put my verses on a slab
Going thru my stanzas for tone
looking...

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Categories: sestina, assonance, death, eulogy, i

What Sends Them Harvard Poets

For Langston Hughes

What sends them Harvard poets
I just couldn't do it, Sir: 
What sends them Harvard poets
I just couldn't do it, Sir:
They'll never give me...

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Categories: sestina, america, discrimination, judgement, metaphor,

Private Eyes Invasive Eyes

 Everywhere, in dark and light, 
are always watching eyes.
Way out in space, 
glowing orbs, 
some of gold; 
watch through celestial layers.

Sift through the layers,...

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Categories: metaphor, poems, poetry, sky,

The Dragon Flight

Atop a jagged pinnacle, 
he sits, just waiting; 
ragged wings stretch into flight.
Dragon eyes his prey; 
downward sweep and clasp 
brings supper for a dragon.

We...

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Categories: introspection, metaphor, poems, poetry,

Climbing Ladders

 Keeping your mind, 
healthy and open 
and taking that big step 
through the opportunity door; 
you’ll find going up, 
the career ladder, easy.

It’s not...

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Categories: inspiration, life, metaphor, poems,

A Mouse and a Man



In the anters and shadows of this baleful life
perhaps the little brown mouse searching in silence
bewray a lonesome story behold

For eyes to wander a brief...

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Categories: friendship, life, metaphor, life,

A Cyclical Life

Here in the heavy depths of insolent woes,
We gesture and talk and waste our time,
Staking claim to each minute of our earthly life,
Running the hours...

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Categories: life, lovewords, metaphor, beauty,