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Metaphor Sonnet Poems

These Metaphor Sonnet poems are examples of Sonnet poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Sonnet Metaphor poems written by international poets.


Divine Magnetism
I am holding your eyes, feeling your words,
The waves gently overwhelm me, coaxing,
Pulling me under and luring me in.
Recede, leaving me freezing, shivering.

I am holding...

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Categories: break up, conflict, crush,



Premium Member Love
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love.”
Sophocles, Greek Poet 

Love is the key that unlocks every...

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Categories: beautiful, emotions, extended metaphor,

Premium Member Metaphors
Metaphors penned with psychedelic ink 
most times present as imagery, forthright. 
But, if they're scanned again- readers may think
a nuance has come forth in a...

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Categories: appreciation, metaphor, poems, sea,

Premium Member O Bipolar, Harass Me Nevermore
O Bipolar, harass me nevermore!
     Depart from me! For Easter Sunday's here,
     a comfort which transforms this...

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Categories: sonnet, christian, depression, easter, extended

Premium Member I Wish I Had A Deadman’s Hand
Distracted by eyes and lips; skin so fair.
Lured bettors; a beautiful poker face.
Taking games with ease; a delicate stare. 
The deck’s in my hand. I’m...

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Categories: allusion, analogy, art, beautiful,



Fighting Fire with Molotovs
Tight stretched skin, not unlike leather parchment
Adorned with scars and burns and such carvings
Among the colors, red ink's enrichment
Envelops a file cabinet's burnings

Advice from the...

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Categories: abuse, depression, fire, introspection,

Premium Member The Traveller
The midnight pokes out from under the dirt,
navy, with chrome trim, catching the moon’s eye,
that Ally Sheedy fringe can’t help but flirt,
as her 1970’s Audi...

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Categories: growing up, identity, introspection,

Premium Member SARA
A metaphor for a beautiful flower in a lovely vase,
Is your beautiful smile on your lovely face. 
When the stresses of life make it hard...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: light, love, poetess, rainbow,

Premium Member The Nature of Virtue
Nurture the virtues of your eternal soul,
those attributes that are eternal.
Share your best, make it your goal,
let them manifest from the internal.

Let others see what...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: giving, introspection, love, metaphor,

In harmony with nature
Gently smile along when the flowers grin;
Freely fly along when butterflies glide
Divulge the veiled exuberance within;
Set your worldly tribulations aside.

Pace along with ever ebullient breeze;
Crazily...

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Categories: beautiful, butterfly, extended metaphor,

The end of a hustler
Russell was slim and did like to hustle, but on his arm he packed some serious muscle

Most of the time he liked to gamble, but...

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Categories: bullying, cool, corruption, integrity,

A Christmas Reverie
In Christmas's glow, where dreams and joy entwine,
A tale unfolds, of Christ's birth divine.
In Bethlehem's cradle, a babe so mild,
The Savior, Messiah, the Holy Child.

Santa,...

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Categories: 11th grade, baby, beautiful,

Premium Member Tipsy Tongues
Saw thee, silly moon, smiling at me,
Let us dance before dawn drives us away,
Imbue this night with fanciful folly,
Each breath a hurricane of moraless sway....

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Categories: dance, drink, fantasy, love,

Premium Member Man of Mars
Such is a sorrow sculpted of sunstone,
Immortalised with studious refrain,
Tragedy, still, in beautiful atone,
Exuding light from a languish of pain.

Young Venus, I be, suspended in...

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Categories: imagery, introspection, love, metaphor,

Premium Member Death Be Thy Raven
Death be thy raven's blackened plume
And hunched in cape of sordidness
A tower's age of wealth's illume 
Becries a pallid nothingness
Where scream escapes an umbral torn
Of...

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Categories: death, metaphor, moving on,


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