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a hot day and a smelterA 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...
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Categories:
color, creation, extended metaphor,
Form: Blank verse
They Gathered Outside My House
They gathered outside- I'm alone,
and at my back window, I groan!
I think- what is this
my hubby will miss?
Then, quickly I reach for my phone!
"We're being invaded, my dear!
Please quickly come home, for I fear
these huge...
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Categories:
emotions, fate, funny, metaphor,
Form: Limerick
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
...
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Categories:
metaphor, adventure, analogy, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Carpe Diem
DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDEDr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Jovial Dr Jekyll played for juvenile Justice
a just jaspered journey
jokingly jumped...
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Categories:
12th grade, extended metaphor,
Form: Alliteration
ODE TO ELEPHANTODE TO ELEPHANT
Elephant Elephant
enveloping essence of Earth !
I hear an elevated trumpet
...
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Categories:
metaphor, animal, color, earth, extended
Form: Ode
FEAR NOT TO VISIONFEAR 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...
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Categories:
metaphor, 12th grade, courage, emotions,
Form: Carpe Diem
Categories:
allusion, imagination, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
An Old Hand Reveals ItselfI see no sign of forced entry...
just copper suns and cornflower blue,
have you been here all this time?
I don't remember inviting you,
and now all my voices are a chatter,
with threats I cannot construe.
...
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Categories:
confidence, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: Lyric
Categories:
allusion, metaphor, moving on,
Form: Free verse
blowoffflowerHowIwish,"SoMeOne",noticed.
Dandelion they call them here,
Candle light lay,fall Sam sincere.
He told me that I am it,
,,She sold-.she..", cat I lie Sam: ,, rid of it".
Me, fold, see rat->sigh->->rough sit.
German the meaning indeed is,
,,Sir, can!"
...
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Categories:
extended metaphor,
Form: Diamante
Corn Dogs and Ice Cream Cones a songIt's rare that most would call me a hot head
I am usually the coolest cucumber instead
I have no tells, so their heads don't swell
and I don't get entangled to soon
But there is this tall lanky...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, funny love,
Form: Lyric
On The Right Trail To Right EndDo I remember when...
Better breezes blew
Cleaner waters flowed
Teasing memory so...
For I can hear them in quiet special times… can you?
Softly now, in your own silence… hear them…
‘Are we missed?’
___*___
I am old in age now
Quieter...
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Categories:
metaphor, age, dream, future, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Divine MagnetismI am holding your eyes, feeling your words,
The waves gently overwhelm me, coaxing,
Pulling me under and luring me in.
Recede, leaving me freezing, shivering.
I am holding your eyes. If you were wise,
You would hold me. Feel...
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Categories:
metaphor, break up, conflict, crush,
Form: Sonnet
Love"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love.”
Sophocles, Greek Poet
Love is the key that unlocks every door,
allowing access to another's heart.
It's a bonding of hearts and...
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Categories:
beautiful, emotions, extended metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Hika BayHika Bay
Silent hawks appear
outside our window
two,then four,now six
form a floating dimond
A kettle of hawks roam high
on ancient air
sent by first peoples
to remind us
We dont own these wonders
they belong to Hika Bay
we are just the...
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Categories:
metaphor, animal, appreciation, bird, environment,
Form: Narrative
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?
Poems Related to Metaphor
symbol, image, analogy, similitude, emblem, personification, allegory, hope, metonymy, trope,