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Short Metaphor Poems

Short Metaphor Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Metaphor by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Metaphor by length and keyword.


Irony
sometimes sweet, mostly metaphor...

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Categories: metaphor, satire
Form: Monoku



My Father
A charcoal stove
burning nonstop...

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Categories: father, metaphor, satire,
Form: Couplet
Death and Life Are Friends
Death enjoys life
Life feeds death...

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Categories: death, life, metaphor,
Form: Couplet
To Kill a River
pollute it
drain it
deny it cover...

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Categories: metaphor, relationship, world,
Form: Triolet
Fish-River
fish
splish
splash
rock
glisten...

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Categories: beautiful, discrimination, metaphor, spiritual, water,
Form: Epitaph



Premium Member Nature Presents Hope
crowning the cactus, a flower blooms...

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Categories: encouraging, flower, hope, imagery, inspirational, metaphor, nature,
Form: Monoku
Knavery
You deceive extremely and trust alone...

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Categories: metaphor,
Form: Monoku
ishah
.

    mine 
   miss'n 
   matter...

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Categories: extended metaphor,
Form: Epigram
Glow
moon; glowing above its scars for eons...

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Categories: deep, imagery, life, metaphor, moon, nature, night,
Form: Monoku
Binary
One is love, 
Zero is everything else....

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© A.O. Taner  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, beautiful, cheer up, computer, desire, destiny, devotion,
Form: Verse
Dance
Cosmic dance - wear your dancing shoes....

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Categories: metaphor, beauty, fantasy, humanity, imagery, imagination, nature, universe,
Form: Monoku
Human Body
a battlefield 
of emotions
and bacteria...

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Categories: body, metaphor,
Form: Triolet
Morals
moral compass - needle moving erratically...

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Categories: conflict, deep, extended metaphor, humanity, life,
Form: Monoku
Manifestation
a rock is a rock because it thinks it's so...

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Categories: art, metaphor, riddle,
Form: Monoku
Mystic
I look heaven
As vast ocean
So mystical....

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Categories: heaven, metaphor, mystery, perspective,
Form: Than-Bauk
hern eyne
.

            mine

          entwine...

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Categories: engagement, extended metaphor, passion,
Form: Couplet
Sinking of Feelings
In shallow souls deep feelings
sink wildly...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, appreciation, feelings, metaphor,
Form: Light Verse
My Fiance Is a Fairy
ice-cap head
smoky mouth
red charcoal feet...

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Categories: metaphor, relationship,
Form: Free verse
House of Mirrors
She saw her body, but could not see her soul...

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Categories: art, conflict, fear, imagery, life, metaphor, vanity,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Line of Fire
I would rather be smoke than ash




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Categories: introspection, metaphor,
Form: Epigram
They Look Like Beasts
those cars
that swallow riders
in accidents...

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Categories: animal, metaphor,
Form: Triolet
No Lie
No lie exists
What is a lie
is truth cheated...

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Categories: metaphor, truth,
Form: Triolet
Haiku
haiku is not
silence. . .
but points the way...

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Categories: art, dedication, metaphor, silence, spiritual,
Form: Senryu
Short Poem 1
You said yes
He said no
Both moved my cheese...

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Categories: metaphor,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Thread
mind the holes in your feed ~ darn it


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Categories: allegory, extended metaphor,
Form: Monoku

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