Extended Metaphor Poems | Examples of Extended Metaphor Poetry

If only I could be, wiser, to chaos, before it catches wind, & takes me with it's tides. As an aside... would you be so kind, to send out a searchlight, for it appears I have sailed, haphazardly, into the deepest...Read the rest...

The eagle has grace and flair as She soars up in the clouds Up and above them clouds she climbs as she eyes a quarry Strong in her wing as effortless she spreads the swift is she A...Read the rest...

A full African figure Is how I can describe her The Joy of seeing her Is it not to be found In her leaving as they drool Her face contemplative And easy grace mixed with charm A voice tantalizing as she browses I...Read the rest...

Smiling up at oak tree leaves, Sun shining through Translucent glow, I know This peace is fleeting as the wind. I concentrate to preserve the time. But shadows darken Recent mind flow, I know Thoughts of peaceful greeting must have an end. Oak...Read the rest...

Who doesn't know how forgive men's faults, will Not know well What...Read the rest...

I see...a little differently, perhaps, the last impressionist, fluent in colour and free, and then, I remember... I haven't got my glasses on, and trip into a tree....Read the rest...

The spilling of a brain, Thoughts that can’t be contained, The crumbling membrane. An agnostic wreck that cries out I’m four years old 5,6,14,17 A botanical solar system expect all of the plants are dead. Everywhere you look in my museum, There is...Read the rest...

just pour me a drink, love, deep from your cold heart, I shall sip slowly, reality that’s life, share your frozen bosom, once of me a part, chill facts, parting ways, you shall not be my wife, let dreams...Read the rest...

I cannot envisage a better place, hidden away and out of pace, the castle walls, a cloche, a dandies confection, this scene plays out, to me, to be perfection. ...Read the rest...

Stitch up my soul, with threads of the moon, so as night falls, as it’s sure to, soon, I can be a luminary, roaming, in her runes. ...Read the rest...

It must be terrible… to be tied up in knots, what if it clots... how could one complain? Such a terrible shame, I can't help you loosen it... not even a little bit, maybe, just cut the cord? and let that...Read the rest...

Love, In a society that has always seen love as reckless and impulsive I have tasted a different dish, a side that is usually not explored With sweet touches and sweeter words Cautious of the effect...Read the rest...

It's gilded in bright colours Like a peacock butterfly; It sparkles in splendour Like a diamond in the sun; When it rests, it rests In confined dank darkness, In a bowel of nightmare With what remains of a...Read the rest...

. back mine dome'z locks roamed 'twixt eve's legz mine wavy strands crisp rivulet rush *rousing the astute's vision ,) ...Read the rest...

sinuate az the leaf yourn festoon with infinate twists ...Read the rest...