Moon Simile Poems

As great as the stars they said
As fast as lightning they saw
From dusk till dawn he practices
Through the golden hour his blade shines brightly
Like the...

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Whats about these flaws that everyone is scared of 
Scared enough to hide behind a mask
But never show them to the world 
Somewhere we are...

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Like a flower that wilts, 
Like a tower on stilts, 
This life's just a vapour, 
Bite the dust, time scraper, 

Like the fall of Eden,...

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*** TOMORROWS ***

These thoughts begin composed
   (“adagio ma non troppo”)
With a happy, a peaceful heart’s tempo,
Assured the nature of 
Imminent or distant tomorrows,
Is...

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How come you hold the key 
To the Adam's Apple and Gravity

You allure me in like a meteor in space
And scrumptious is thy Apple's taste

Just...

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Poet Identity

In conversations,
In biographies,
In resumes…all poets are writers,
    but not all writers are poets.
On a careful look into the mirror, when not...

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As the sun continues to set and rise,
 As the moon continues to wane and wax,
Here I am, continuing like a roaring wave
On the wrinkling...

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You can’t stop the sun from rising
nor the waxing and waning of the moon;
nor can you stop the stars from blinking.

You can’t stop lightning from...

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Mirrors just reflect—

 The moon is like a mirror:-

  We are of the sun....

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Sunday evening stretches and yawns
  drowsy as a tender fawn
Who frolics and plays throughout the day
  then curls up midst leaves to lay

While...

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The full moon kindles a bipolar mind:
     like a hunter hard on his prey, the nights
revive a dark, dysphoric mood; then...

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I.	Daybreak

what glint of morning
is this where the rusty bloom of chain link fences
cuts the turf of rowhouses

the weeds still talk with the legs
of crickets as...

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Our America is not a world stage,
And we the black oppressed
Are not mere players; rather, our story here
Is a bloody reality—a bloody reality of our...

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Stalled Beginning…Beautiful Ending

                I
Like a stalled car
with engine running,

I sat...

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How immense the moon
for little mouse,
who runs along the side
of little house,
who gnaws his secret way,
who eats his crumbs each day,
who toils for each buffet
for...

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