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Kessi Awendo, Certain Affairs Fay, Charms street AffairA 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...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, child abuse, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Beatrix Macabre Is a Poetess BecauseMuttered 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...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, career, character, dark, devotion,
Form: Bio
Artist of TimeBurst 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...
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Categories:
dark, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Rose Tinted WindshieldsQuicksand 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...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, dark, deep, destiny, extended
Form: Free verse
Lilith, Finale MoonZenith 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...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, beautiful, change, dark, death,
Form: Bio
Too Close To The EdgeThe 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...
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Categories:
dark, extended metaphor, gothic,
Form: Bio
Today ClassEducational 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...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, america, change, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
Don't Look CloselyOttava 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...
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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
...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, allegory, allusion, analogy, extended
Form: Limerick
My messenger’s eyesExploratory research complete
Skid in shattering office windows
Ribboned lab coat flailing against sharp gusts
Etched in quartz tablet: Do Not Repeat....
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Categories:
extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
BecomingThe 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...
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Categories:
confusion, desire, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
The SymphonySometimes, always,
& rather unsurprisingly,
I start to wonder…
why...my heart cannot explain,
the corporeal notes,
of music,
in just a droplet,
of rain.
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Categories:
confusion, extended metaphor, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Calls My NameThe 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...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, addiction, cute love, dark,
Form: Free verse
The Conversation of SleepI 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.
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Categories:
dark, dream, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
My Now is Just Your ThenAs 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.
...
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Categories:
beauty, extended metaphor, history,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Extended Metaphor Poems
Read wonderful extended metaphor poetry on the following sub-topics:
animal, family, friends, football, kids, lion, love, loneliness, moon, nature, yourself
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Definition | What is Extended Metaphor in Poetry?
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