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Bashful Beauty
Eyelashes
Batting in bashful style
Like the dance of weeping willow leaves
Sculpted nose
Crafted in perfection
Double caves in a sheer rock mountain...
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Categories:
beauty, girl, simile,
Form: Verse
Glacier, Nature's SculptorGlacier! Icy, cold,
hard. Diamond-like, it chisels
the frosty landscape....
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Categories:
simile, extended metaphor, image, imagery,
Form: Haiku
Packaged, Dried Instant Ramen EarthwormsLike Ramen noodles,
packaged, dried worms are instant.
Just add hot water and eat....
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Categories:
simile, dark, food, humor, irony,
Form: Senryu
The Robbers
He held the bat like Excalibur,
lockdown villains open-planned,
one cancellation ripped his brain,
one robber do it yourself grave,
two more buy what they want,
their faces previous with rage,
home-owner comfort eating
his bullets,
both fell first date the Devil.
...
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Categories:
simile, allegory, anxiety, city, deep,
Form: Blank verse
''The Nightfall Preys on the Bipolar Mind''The nightfall preys on the bipolar mind:
like a hunter hard on his prey, the nights
awaken a dysphoric mood; then grind
the soul to abject lows from...
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Categories:
simile, dark, death, depression, extended
Form: Sonnet
The Marvel of NatureNature's so marvelous, all know:
when spring arrives, year upon year,
rebirth and life make the world grow;
all of earth in this hemisphere,
from east to west, vibrate...
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Categories:
simile, humanity, metaphor, mythology, nature,
Form: Lyric
I Will Never LearnLike a language I’ll never know,
I admire the art, longing to be among its people.
Seemingly it shall remain but as only mine dream.
Like a language I’ve never known,
I admire you so, longing to be yours,
But...
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Categories:
simile, allegory, extended metaphor, lost
Form: Free verse
I Long for Thy Truant InspirationI long for thy truant inspiration,
O Muse, for I've felt thy absence too long!
Empower me to sing a new, gay song:
that...
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Categories:
simile, creation, inspiration, life, muse,
Form: Italian Sonnet
An Almost Dangerous Instance of Bipolar-Disorder Mania in My Words and in My Rhymes
Like an artist with canvas, paint, and brush,
how then to illustrate (for you) in words
and in rhymes the throes of a bipolar rush?
...
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Categories:
simile, hyperbole, irony, mental illness,
Form: Sonnet
FolkloreThere is a tree, hidden in the White Mountains in California
Alive when Stonehenge was under construction
Its exact location kept secret
For over 5000 years its ancient bark
Battered by the bitter cold and harsh winds
It grows...
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Categories:
simile, analogy, appreciation, earth day,
Form: Rhyme
The Weight of The World
written on his face
woes he carries like Atlas ~
a beast of burden
Date written: 01/23/2021...
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Categories:
analogy, endurance, simile,
Form: Senryu
Ivory TowerThis hearth and home, my ivory tower,
wherein I dwell and live in solitude,
in complete and supernal bliss and brood
reflectively with creative power
(whereby I, emboldened, fear...
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Categories:
simile, dark, death, depression, home,
Form: Italian Sonnet
''Musings on Poetic Metre, Rhythm, and Song'' SupplementedClean and tight metre's all about
the poem's percussive beats, the stress
of every metric feet throughout:
with pledged, Pierian largesse,
bards lyricize with it, no doubt;—
...
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Categories:
simile, muse, music, mythology, poems,
Form: Rhyme
''Fragment II'' Rewrit: or, ''Poetic Augmentation''Splashing, thrashing, wildly bashing
rages the rolling sea
like half-tortured Poseidon drowned
in waves of misery!
In tempestuous, dark dead of night,
...
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Categories:
simile, assonance, god, imagery, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
''Fragment I'' Jacked UpFar away from your ancient moor,
I feel your thoughts call for my soul
and transport me to Eden's door!
Can musings like yours divinely toll,
beguiling me onto...
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Categories:
simile, god, longing, love, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Simile Poems
Read wonderful simile poetry on the following sub-topics:
animal, christmas, dogs, family, funny, kids, life, love, metaphor, mother, nature, ocean, spring,
and more.
Definition | What is Simile in Poetry?