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Extended Metaphor Poems | Examples of Extended Metaphor Poetry

Extended Metaphor Poems - Popular examples of all types of extended metaphor poetry to share and read. View a list of new poems for EXTENDED METAPHOR by modern poets.
Kessi Awendo, Certain Affairs Fay, Charms street Affair
A breeze of super heated love the ancients called it At the forth angle trumped up charges bemoan you Twas a case of of an eagle eating a chic..... cry folly Cry folly for Roy was as is...Read the rest...
Categories: extended metaphor, child abuse, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse



Beatrix Macabre Is a Poetess Because
Muttered the gothic maiden tattered blue dress hand out, lachrymose tea pours in yes my dear there are no dark poets left, they all died off now whose the best do throw some in to test? Tee...Read the rest...
Categories: extended metaphor, career, character, dark, devotion,
Form: Bio
Artist of Time
Burst of scarlet splash of ember Wingspan opens and the colors darken Flap as feathers fly into the air To drift as snow with little care Images flow with new scenes Baby blue azure never change Flock the swarm a vortex Flash...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Rose Tinted Windshields
Quicksand caught generation epoch, restless whirring of a drill in the dust. Zenith of color shifts saturation to none, black and white film on video cassette. Ensnared in a cage lowering to molten, hourglass is losing sand to run dry. Eyes...Read the rest...
Categories: extended metaphor, dark, deep, destiny, extended
Form: Free verse
Lilith, Finale Moon
Zenith swirls of black rose petals, burst into a flock of circling crows, descending ash and rain on my frozen form. Viscera and scarlet pools flash, feet running of a child, car screeching tires with broken glass. Piano motif grave into...Read the rest...
Categories: extended metaphor, beautiful, change, dark, death,
Form: Bio



Too Close To The Edge
The world tilts into a crescendo, manifesting a lure of viral plague, pervasive and fangs virulent, sickening coquettish carnivorous creatures. Why bother with their musings, why care? A question that reminds me I am human, but am I? Do I appear as one...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, extended metaphor, gothic,
Form: Bio
Today Class
Educational systematic analysis idiocy, cogs to craft humans into mice chasing cheese. Stand sit raise hand or don’t speak, and we decide your level of stupidity. Shake your head as I curl thy lips, you were crafted in the same...Read the rest...
Categories: extended metaphor, america, change, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don't Look Closely
Ottava Rima & ABC. Sadly, due its lack of artistic values and matching verbiage that would have met with an arguable challenge, hail an NFC poem--you see, as I found the bite in this baby...Read the rest...
Categories: extended metaphor, analogy, art, cool, extended
Form: ABC
NOT EVERYTHING IS PERFECT
Not every river is january not every carnival February not all I that ask for grant ...Read the rest...
Categories: extended metaphor, allegory, allusion, analogy, extended
Form: Limerick
Premium Member My messenger’s eyes
Exploratory research complete Skid in shattering office windows Ribboned lab coat flailing against sharp gusts Etched in quartz tablet: Do Not Repeat....Read the rest...
Categories: extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Becoming
The thing I look for, That thing I become. The perspective I carry, On that road, I am buried. The grave you fix for me, In that place, I never return. The proportion you hold for me, Always be a negligible one. The unquenchable...Read the rest...
Categories: confusion, desire, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Symphony
Sometimes, always, & rather unsurprisingly, I start to wonder… why...my heart cannot explain, the corporeal notes, of music, in just a droplet, of rain. ...Read the rest...
Categories: confusion, extended metaphor, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Calls My Name
The orb calls to me, beckons breast beat, blood in veins permeates, face red with heat, as I asphyxiate, am dominated, reach climax. Each time lustful, more powerful, sensual. I crave this fix, my only reason to exist, addicted to...Read the rest...
Categories: extended metaphor, addiction, cute love, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Conversation of Sleep
I dreamt only of green alkanet. One by one, I'd see another, mutilate my view, talking in tongues of five, as they destroy the delicate balance, between this world and new. ...Read the rest...
Categories: dark, dream, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Now is Just Your Then
As the clocks creep, unknown... again, my summer's call, of Calendulas, and Cotswold stone, crumbles, in compliance, that this, beauty, cannot be…here, just for me, alone. ...Read the rest...
Categories: beauty, extended metaphor, history,
Form: Free verse

Specific Types of Extended Metaphor Poems

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