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Metaphor Swimming Poems

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


Tagore Translation: the Seashore Gathering
The Seashore Gathering
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

On the seashores of endless worlds, earth's children converge.
The infinite sky is motionless, the restless waters...

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Categories: swimming, boat, children, dance, earth,



Walking, Talking and Swimming
Uphill and down dale
We walk, we talk, we both frown...

But why do you look so pale
And as grey as a white whale
One that is all...

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Categories: swimming, metaphor,

Premium Member Swimming Upstream
My soul has left the serene ocean of the eternal

And like a salmon swims upstream

The river's turbulent waters of the temporal,

Determent to overcome any obstacles...

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Categories: swimming, destiny, god, metaphor,

Swimming In the Deep End
Every stroke takes you farther away,
panic sets in,
your body, starts to tremble,
with fear,
every stroke takes you farther away,
to the deep end, away from safety,
the shallow...

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Categories: swimming, courage, faith, fear, imagery,

Premium Member Swimming Lessons
A test of the water,
A dip of my toe.
Undeniably chilly,
But bearably so.

Before I can swim,
I must get undressed.
I’ll start with my shirt,
And then all the...

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Categories: swimming, fun, metaphor, poetry, poets,



Premium Member Swimming
 Learning to swim, is a scary challenge.
Diving into a cold liquid-filled box
Just isn’t something enticing.

Stroke, kick and breathe…
stroke, kick and breathe…
you glide through the...

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Categories: swimming, metaphor, poems, poetry,


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