Metaphor Warrior Poems

Deep in my shrewd mind, a storm rages on 
Dark clouds gather as the wind howls till dawn
A tempest of thoughts, I cannot control
A battle...

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I was born into a war 
I was born into a war 
I Was born into this war 
And I couldn’t even talk 
I didn’t...

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I bravely gird myself again
to do battle
at morning’s first light
Unsheathing my sword
to take the field alone
for I have no allies
A warrior weary of the fight
my...

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I am a warrior and not a warmonger
The weapons of my warfare 
Are not of this world
But they are mighty through God

I am a warrior,...

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Lost at sea,
petrified by uncertainty
I push through the dread
for I have a lighthouse
Like a knight to my rescue,
no massive winds can easily subdue

I reside in...

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Throw human pain into its mouth dark and forever,
give that suffering some use to feed an ever-expanding muse.
It is beyond any attempt at metaphor,

as useless...

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The Fashion Zebra

I am a flake. 
That is the term for people that do not follow through. 
It may not be fair. I have spent...

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percolating in time
i reached out 
and plucked a star

took its points 
and chiseled out
harden hate

used its blades
and shaved away
warts of deceit

with harnessed love
i rode into...

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False Warrior


Cold spear of winter’s harbinger
pierces the heart of summer
leaving her wounded beauty
bleeding out upon the landscape.

Autumn – cruel mercenary force
despoiling the scent of bounty
laying...

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The Zweiback Warrior


Zweiback cookies – teething biscuits
Yucky, gnawed upon, gummed delights
Xeric surface absorbing wanton drool
Wielded, by the toothless cherub, in
Valiant fencing stance encumbered by
Unsteady footwork...

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Out of the fire,
Life grows.
The flames burn strong, 
Bold,
And sear my soul.
My heart grows faint,
Weary.
The pain,
The intolerable pain,
Burning.

Yea, though I walk through the valley
Of the...

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The Warrior

My pencil is my sword
My eraser is my shield
And when I go to war
My paper is my battlefield 
When life is to much
This is...

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