Analogy Poems | Examples of Analogy Poetry

I returned home after forty years to my home island of Hawaii. Its preferred nickname is the Big Island, lovingly a.k.a., the Orchid Isle, and yes, a.k.a., the Volcanic Island. Rightly named as the sole...Read the rest...

The calmer the more confident The more strident the more insecure The more natural the laugh the less the...Read the rest...

Written: May 12, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Setting resolve, crashing,  onto desolate shores glittering with rubies In the depths of those eyes, a...Read the rest...

Written: May 12, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Delicate views reveal fractured strands Grasping for straws, mere words alone Hidden from anxiety is a solitary grace We must...Read the rest...

Written: May 12, 2024 For Constance La France Contest 1. "I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it..." E.E. Cummings ...Read the rest...

Energy We were in the upper room Energy Mother's child In communication He supplanted placing mine spiritual seed planting in the heavens Me the placed seed Mother's child Desending planted from grace Placed in a womb She receives seedling fleeting Spiraling...Read the rest...

Most radiant host, angelic glory be Within thy blesséd grace, Portal of Faith. In simple form You came, yet still through thee We see theophony, through which God saith, ¨Dear child mine, most valiant flesh now is thine. Hereby thy...Read the rest...

as a mother toughening her child so her soul shall come to be in comforting as her strength and honor is your clothing so a confident about the future motherhood mouthful of wisdom kindly...Read the rest...

The assigned unseen lamp hidden somewhere, someone kindles for you when you’re made to arrive. Unperceived, it creates reflective beam of contemplation, illumines the pathway of your destined journey. The free will you make as the mental mural...Read the rest...

My candle said to me soon I will rest for giving you my best as I have melted my girth as the wick wanes in my worth I will flick away my ember and lastly, remember the time when you light up my life...Read the rest...

hope … dismay heaven, hell gods, mortality … love all live within us we create our own realities and we dwell there … oh, we are taught the tools for life - the skills we use to SHAPE that actuality, but we construct it...Read the rest...

* Artists of every kind, I believe, are but tools for something far grander … what that is, I’ll leave to the philosophers. * ~ bend … your voice to...Read the rest...

(inhale) aim, undetermined ... what purpose do I serve? what is poetry’s primal essence?!? my words only cover pages that ghost the spaces of better intention ... that garland upon my brow bleeds 'neath the clawing shadows of naked branches, thorns twisted and braided with the lightness...Read the rest...

* death is a process of many stages, and dementia can be one of the ugliest … Dad taught me many lessons in life, and he fought to the last to retain what sensibilities he...Read the rest...

'Here-comes-The-She--riff'/'And-his-second-trusted-Deputy' 'They-chea-ted-and-were-shot-de--ead'/'By-the-new-Ma-yo--or'/ 'Bob-Mar-ley' 'If-their-left-foot-takes-an-in--nch'/'And-their-right-foot-takes-a-lengthier-mile' 'Hand-law-a-forty-fi--ive'/'And-make-that-bestnerd-hop-with-a-smile' 'Your-dancing-half-you-spun-le--eft'/'You-alone-with-Suave-south-for-a-drive' 'Not-as-Missing-Per--sons'/'Posters-as-being-Wan-ted-Dead-or-Alive' 'Your-thrones-King's-and-Que--een's'/'The-Court-Jester-made-his-sweet-sixteen' 'Queen-is-expec-ti--ing'/'King's-glad-Jester-fa-ces-le-Guil-lo-tine' 'Judges-and-Ju--dy's'/'This-here-courtroom-is-in-repossession' 'Gavels-get-rea--dy'/'And-assault-with-deadly-precision' 'Guilty-as-cha--arged'/'Throw-the-book-at-um-as-they-cry-out-ouch!' 'Innocent-is-set-fre--ee'/'After-those-they-accused-gouged-their-eyes-out!' 'Kamala-is-the-fel--la'/'Lady-Justice-like-the-blindfolders-spawn' 'The-Justices-all-wa--atched'/'As-U.-S.-Constitution-burned-on-the-lawn' 'Pu-tin's-confus--sion'/'Non-goes-front-or-back-of-fic--ti--on' 'Tales-from-Tsar's-wo--ods'/'Rasputin-Myname-front- or-back-a-muse' 'Biden-casta--Net's'/'And-Yahoo's-all-over-Is-ra-el' 'Joe-cuts-China-tea--time'/'Pekoe-dives-inside-Starbuck's-swimming-pool'...Read the rest...