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HomeLove,
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...
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Categories:
emotions, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
The broken strings
She wore the beauty formed within her shell
The unique embellishments from a greater being
That adorned her apron strings
Where stains of toil did not impair,
the flawlessness that clung upon worn out strings
An iridescent glow shone...
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Categories:
deep, heartbreak, metaphor, slavery,
Form: Free verse
The Lavender Lays DeadNight and day, I have wept,
for the lavender lays dead,
& my locks have disintegrated,
down to the screw.
What am I to do?
When all hope is lost,
except extend my apology,
& find another place,
to pull me out...
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Categories:
metaphor, allegory, death, deep, flower,
Form: Free verse
FAIR FUTILITYIt'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...
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Categories:
death, extended metaphor, grave,
Form: Free verse
Haiku 4.
back mine dome'z locks roamed
'twixt eve's legz mine wavy strands
crisp rivulet rush
*rousing the astute's
vision ,)
...
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Categories:
beautiful, eve, extended metaphor,
Form: Haiku
Storms Will Pass"over the waters blue the night winds sigh,
The breakers roar... " Samual Taylor Coleridge
"Over the waters blue the night winds sigh
The breakers roar..." Waves collapse before my eyes.
I catch my...
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Categories:
metaphor, sea, storm,
Form: Ballad
Categories:
adventure, allegory, fish, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Salvage A WhirStair carefully dear into the unknown abyssal void.
Pier was once past and now rotted and rictus, petrified.
Hue manatee threaded ten den and garnet.
Ruby teardrops and crimson Damascus drips droplets,
like a leak key faucet in the...
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Categories:
metaphor, dark, dog, gothic, horror,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
beautiful, blessing, extended metaphor,
Form: Pastoral
Delusions of GrandeurWhy does the mouse disguise itself as a rat?
Because it has delusions of grandeur.
The mouse thinks it must win in life,
And to win in life is to be intimidating;
To make a name for yourself.
Rats are...
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Categories:
allusion, animal, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Monoku four Cactus
Categories:
metaphor, encouraging, flower, hope, imagery,
Form: Monoku
Cold Case: A Missing Hour of Afternoon
I step out from a second-story window,
float along roads of slow-churning lullabies,
raptured in response to ice cream truck’s bellow.
A clear case of cold sugar—wide gumball eyes,
mobile memories wrapped in coats of corn-snow
hugged around a thin...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Ottava rima
Leave Me HereI wander alone at dawn,
dreaming over cobblestones,
when light strikes four, fifty three,
uninvited, I have little choice,
than to still and see,
muzzled, while my night,
is stripped of wonder, and,
my sun declares,
supposedly,
I'm free.
...
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Categories:
metaphor, allegory, dream, freedom, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Tracing PaperHunted.
By the humanity of her movement.
Still.
Then slow…Calculated.
Tracing each step of damage,
left in her wake.
...
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Categories:
allegory, dark, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
A Jerk's Journey to JungleCracked moonlight caresses every carnation flower,
While my sight sees a salty sea seven miles away from here .
The moon burns to ashes as the old ocean grows golden with every growing hour,
I can see a...
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Categories:
animal, beauty, metaphor, rainforest,
Form: Alliteration
Specific Types of Metaphor Poems
Read wonderful metaphor poetry on the following sub-topics:
animal, family, friends, football, kids, lion, love, loneliness, moon, nature, yourself
and more.
Definition | What is Metaphor in Poetry?
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