Metaphor Shooting Poems

A precious passing moment

Like silver dust or

Shooting stars

Blind us – for an instant

But fade into the dark

 

Never to be written

Never to be told

Doomed to...

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Was I maudlin over our breakup? For a minute.

If I think of you now, it’s like a slideshow of unflattering images.

At the time, my breakup...

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Among innocent stars,
      My dreams all pending... and
    falling on me, as pure veils,...

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Watching the Perseids 

Each year August eleven to thirteen 
We fly through a cloud of comet dust
In those few days 
Watching skyward patient in the...

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Just say no to sunshine
Trying to penetrate your dark doom
Wrap your black cloud around its fire 
Smoother it in your tears, in your grief
In your...

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shooting star  wonder
carries in its shiny bulge
a wish only mine...

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Erratic
          dreams
          are
    ...

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elusive shooting stars in space are hopeful dreams lost in memory...

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Different
from the constant star
the shooting star
other trace
and another drawing
does...

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From heaven fell a shooting star,
As stars are apt to do—
They burn as suns, and brightly so,
Until their burnings through.

But the heavens are diminished 
For...

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I sit behind my window frame,
Looking at the deep, blue sea.
It’s dark, and I can’t quite see,
But a fish is falling weak.
Its scales are dimmer...

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