Metaphor Spoken Word Poems
These Metaphor Spoken Word poems are examples of Spoken Word poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Spoken Word Metaphor poems written by international poets.
A Colonized MindIn the chambers where thoughts are supposed to
roam free, Foreign voices echo, not belonging to me.
Words planted like flags on conquered territory,
Thoughts that flower...
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Categories:
spoken word, corruption, freedom, introspection, metaphor,
Opera for Feminine OthernessDemigirl Definition
A space between
Androgyny and conventional binaries of female identity
A gender not recognized by mainstream policies
And subjected to the far corners of the Q+ community...
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Categories:
identity, spoken word,
Art PoetryWords dance across the canvas of my mind,
Brushstrokes of meaning, colors of sound.
In poetry's rhythm, art is defined—
Where image and language are forever bound.
The painter speaks in textures, light, and shade,
The poet paints with metaphor and rhyme.
Both cast their visions that will never fade,
Standing defiant against the rush of time.
A sonnet blooms like petals on display,
A portrait captures silence between breaths.
Each stanza and stroke has something to say
Of beauty that outlives a thousand deaths.
In galleries of verse and painted dreams,
We find ourselves reflected in the streams....
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spoken word, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Hide and SeekThis is different
Eerie
The winds have changed.
The colors fade into
a lifeless, chalky form,
and all life disappears
in a uniform fashion,
as I stand at its edge,
too scared to...
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Categories:
spoken word, anxiety, depression, emotions, hope,
Hear the way I soundHear the way I sound,
a harmonious hum,
a rhythm that beats with every dream,
every fear, and every whim.
My voice, a canvas of emotions,
...
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spoken word, imagery, meaningful, metaphor, poems,
Brains and Guts: The Write, Right, Rite of RevolutionBrains and guts orbit the soul—
that polar star searing in the marrow of being.
I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons
Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of...
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Categories:
courage, destiny, history, imagery,
Holiday HaikuRest and celebrate
Protecting my mental health
Decorative lights
...
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Categories:
spoken word, analogy, christmas, happiness, holiday,
Tag3, 2, 1 TAG YOU'RE IT!
I remember hearing on the playground at the age of nine
Lord only knows how much I dreaded this game
The boy...
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Categories:
analogy, childhood, extended metaphor,
Liberty in ChainsLiberty on a pedestal but her chains are hidden
We built our walls of fear, not stone,
And called them safety, called them home.
While liberty stood watching,...
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Categories:
spoken word, corruption, extended metaphor, inspirational,
ENLIGHTENMENT My SpokenWordENLIGHTENMENT
I am encased in the Darkness asleep
But we are the light
Nightmarish skin get their dreams I flourish
Still better encased then I a light...
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analogy, appreciation, devotion, environment,
Call me PoetryCall me poetry
I am a whispered dance
of words that leap and twirl by chance
Through meadows made of metaphor
And forests never seen before
I am the rhythm...
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Categories:
spoken word, i am, imagery, inspirational,
America the Great Has Fallen- Part 01Oh America The Great, What Happened?
You were the land of the free, the home of the brave,
But now you are the kingdom of...
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Categories:
11th grade, america, anger,
OCEANS IN THE SKIES-Oceans in the skies;
Intangible spiritual realm;
Separated from physical;
Waters dew flow objectives;
Waters?
Oceans in the skies;
I who am a dreamer;
A space marathon;
Awakening not a dreamer;
Instilled resonates...
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spoken word, analogy, creation, inspiration, metaphor,
SPIRITED GIBBERISH"SPIRITED GIBBERISH"
Curtained eyes droop, closing, cleansing, visions. Feathering sunlight. Splintering waked-vivid lashes dreaming of the day. Eyes concealing retreat from here, to there, to what...
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Categories:
allusion, dream, imagery, metaphor,
WHOLESOME ONEDERFUL GLORYWholesome we wander with worthy
Warming wisdom:-
Our onederful oneness overcoming
Oxymoronic odds:-
God's great gleaming glory glooming
Growing gratefulness...
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Categories:
spoken word, allegory, extended metaphor, international,