Short Figuratively Poems

The greener pastures
surround a bleak white framework
figuratively.
...

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To literal minds
similes are like stumbling blocks,
but
metaphors are death traps....

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Mankind loves literally
Non-human loves virtually
God loves figuratively
Love loves all blindly...

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Christmas is cool
both literally
and figuratively
all of the positivity
it's overwhelming, mentally...

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Hell keeps them in line
Figuratively speaking
Literally too

Hell Haiku Poetry Contest
25 March 2023
Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori...

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i never
figuratively
but literally
try to make

a point
and my puns
are always in
tended with

out me
having to make
finger quotation
marks in the air

while 
trying to find a 
synonym for the
word synonym...

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A new dawn

Arising and

Replacing the

Darkness..

Literally and 

Figuratively

This is the

Conventional

Belief..

Emptiness

Appearing as

Sequence..is

Non-conventional..

Not-knowing is

Peace......

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~Lights shines oh brilliant  light
 shines disrupts the night 
so figuratively oh does the light
 shine light shines on the Godly and the Godless~

1/2/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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figuratively speaking...
clearing the mind
accommodates new thoughts...

poetry then is as...
a reality turned inward
and outward

a conch shell time sphere...
from which to watch the wilds
with your own po at tree


stan sand...

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CASTRATED

In ebony
air on flight
through night
nothing is
big or too 
far off

figuratively 
speaking streams 
forgetful surf
high pitch screams
sandpits churn
tough turf
a wastage
of
egg rock
inert



© Kim van Breda—10 November 2015...

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Unmotivated,
I’d dropped my creative side
on the kickoff line
until I picked it up at halftime.

Fumbling,
I now use things I know little about
to explain things I know even less 
about life.

Touchdown when I get it right!


For Nathan's 
short poems Poetry Contest...

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Silhouette
               Shadow on my wall
      I am called by your presence
   I’m summoned by your very spirit
         You touch me as no other
                     Figuratively
                     Holding me


Septet syllable count is 3,5,7,9,7,5,3, unrhymed...

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I found the perfect Christmas gift
And that’s what I’m unwrapping 
She’s five foot two, eyes of blue
Slender, tender, figuratively cracking

So it’s a happy Christmas to me
For a very obvious reason
I’ve found myself the perfect gift
That I will enjoy all of the season...

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Tempus Fugit L
(Time Flies)
Written: by Tom Wright
4/15/2018

When faced with a project that I’m eschewing,
The time seems prolonged and I speculate why.
But undertaking assignments that I enjoy doing,
Time escapes, and figuratively speaking, does fly. 
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Upward through a soft patch of early Spring
    If green plants and petals could only sing

  Jubilation and Joy would ring out
    Fleeing wintry straightjackets
  
  I'd wave to them; they'd wave to me
    We'd weep together, figuratively
      Two old friends united again ~ restoratively...

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It’s so quiet in here
And the only sounds I hear 
Come from fingers, moving wildly
Telling stories behind backs
Literally, Figuratively
Breaking hearts and bonds
Secrets spreading silently
In a tangled web
Of words and whispers
Created by humming hands
And, I think we have forgotten
Our once vocal voices
For I don’t remember how to say
I’m Sorry...

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I recite and read aloud,
wander, lonely as a cloud,
then emulate and create
as memory stimulates;
Swim against poetry's tide
therein,an enigma hide,
perhaps,a step too far,with
Tennyson,crossing the bar;
I dream on Will's sonnet verse,
figuratively,sweet and terse,
lazing life away,with songs
compared to a summer's day.

To conjure an opening line
ever,remembered,as mine....

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I recite and read aloud,
wander, lonely as a cloud,
then emulate and create
as memory stimulates;
Swim against poetry's tide
therein,an enigma hide,
perhaps,a step too far,with
Tennyson,crossing the bar;
I dream on Will's sonnet verse,
figuratively,sweet and terse,
lazing life away,with songs
compared to a summer's day.

To conjure an opening line
ever,remembered,as mine....

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I recite and read aloud,
wander, lonely as a cloud,
then emulate and create
as memory stimulates;
Swim against poetry's tide
therein,an enigma hide,
perhaps,a step too far,with
Tennyson,crossing the bar;
I dream on Will's sonnet verse,
figuratively,sweet and terse,
lazing life away,with songs
compared to a summer's day.

To conjure an opening line
ever,remembered,as mine....

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A WORDS WORTH
I recite and read aloud,
wander, lonely as a cloud,
then emulate and create
as memory stimulates;
Swim against poetry's tide
therein,an enigma hide,
perhaps,a step too far,with
Tennyson,crossing the bar;
I dream on Will's sonnet verse,
figuratively,sweet and terse,
lazing life away,with songs
compared to a summer's day.

To conjure an opening line
ever,remembered,as mine....

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I recite and read aloud,
wander, lonely as a cloud,
then emulate and create
as memory stimulates;
Swim against poetry's tide
therein,an enigma hide,
perhaps,a step too far,with
Tennyson,crossing the bar;
I dream on Will's sonnet verse,
figuratively,sweet and terse,
lazing life away,with songs
compared to a summer's day.

To conjure an opening line
ever,remembered,as mine. 

 | Year Posted 2010...

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How old you turn isn’t the age you are, but the age you are is how old you turn
Lessons only 9,131 days under the Sun could burn
The only degree is learned or unlearned
No first, second, or third
Today is my day whether or not it’s conferred
When it’s over I’ll still attack the world bravely
That doesn’t mean that failures are unchained to me
I thank God for letting me live both figuratively and literally...

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I wish we all could dream
I wish we all could win
I wish we all could sing
Maybe life would be much easier
Or worse, boring

If only I were a soldier
Fighting for love and the flag
And you were my country
My Essence and Pride...
Only will you let me pour out my heart to you

Figuratively speaking
We mostly say what we really mean
As your eyes reveal your heart
So does this poem
Undresses my heart before you...

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They front for public perception
Campaign like it's an election
Make people sick figuratively, like an infection
Just for attention
Monetize in ah dimension
Where money's good suspension
Evil gets the most attention & good needs ah petition
Dealing with the agenda & nobody listen
People full of **** but everyone pissing
Constipated not obligated
To no-one but themselves
Crab in the barrel pulling down everyone but yourself

T.B.T...

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This life for the most since these eyes can remember 
Her light of day has seemed no less, a tortures chamber
Psychologically, mauled in maimed ? Everyday awakening 
Unto their very same chains his scenes, round about; within 
What always was; is ? A #ucked up world filled, with #ucked up 
Things and no wonder, figuratively speaking that, Heaven's Messiah.... 
Did so tell Lucifer that he could shove this place tightly, up his literals ass....

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