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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.
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
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
the sea
Who has never learned to look at the sea, will die idiot....Read the rest...
Categories: extended metaphor, sea,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member The Two Witnesses
God spoke to men in visions and dreams. Their words are like unpolluted streams, offering dying souls life-giving drink, and giving hope to those on the brink. These witnesses, both the old and the new, were written down by a...Read the rest...
Categories: christian, extended metaphor, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
off wit the slops
. noth'n sounds more sweeter than the jamaican windz help'n the salty wet slap 'gainst mine ...Read the rest...
Categories: extended metaphor, adventure, allegory, beautiful, blue,
Form: Romanticism
Shadows of the Eternal Night
I inhabit a realm where contradiction and paradox intertwine, as intimately as vines warmed by Cleopatra's lips. By my very nature, I exist in a state of "woke" and in slumber, endowed with a divine...Read the rest...
Categories: art, evil, extended metaphor,
Form: Other
NO PLACE FOR POETS
There is no place for the poet... We are all lost In our last stages, without having time To leave...Read the rest...
Categories: allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All That Rises Must Fall
Her spring returns to me, in death, I shed a tear, alone, for the weeping blossoms, in the knowledge a moon will rise again, before the rhythm of her breath, turns out to be my own. ...Read the rest...
Categories: creation, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
a hot day and a smelter
A hot day and a smelter Is it in Qatar, or in Dubai a friendly aluminum  smelter for sale, the one in the picture on a TV add looks ok Now that my wife is on holiday with her...Read the rest...
Categories: color, creation, extended metaphor,
Form: Blank verse
the strange flower
. Not the Perennial For The flower showed Past Twice Mine winterz Mine prayer answered That the flower Be not the biennial for Appear yesss Did it For mine Rest Bloomed Beaming Thoroughly arresting Sequestering Mine the eccentric bard ...Read the rest...
Categories: extended metaphor, adventure, analogy, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Carpe Diem
DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Jovial Dr Jekyll played for juvenile Justice a just jaspered journey jokingly jumped...Read the rest...
Categories: 12th grade, extended metaphor,
Form: Alliteration
ODE TO ELEPHANT
ODE TO ELEPHANT Elephant Elephant enveloping essence of Earth ! I hear an elevated trumpet ...Read the rest...
Categories: extended metaphor, animal, color, earth, extended
Form: Ode
FEAR NOT TO VISION
FEAR NOT TO VISION Fear not to vision Trust to catch stardust from Whence we came Create a new World, woven With Peace and Patience Fear not the glaring blaze of Light It dazzles us with lucid eyes To clarify the vision...Read the rest...
Categories: extended metaphor, 12th grade, courage, emotions,
Form: Carpe Diem

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 and more.

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