Best Metaphor Poems
Below are the all-time best Metaphor poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of metaphor poems written by PoetrySoup members
Indian InkINDIAN INK
Indian Accent, form the whispers inside
Chanting from long ago
Echoes come and go
Losing time in a soft eternal glow
A beautiful and delicate autumn mountain scene
Dry...
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Categories:
metaphor, abuse, autumn, death, deep,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Be the Flame of CompassionBe the star that brightens someone’s dark sky,
Be the light that illuminates a gloomy night,
Be the flame of compassion to life gone awry,
Even if you...
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Categories:
care, encouraging, inspiration, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Quarantine of the Soul-Quarantine of the Soul-
Tranquil pills fall deep like the night
A sweet fangless course
Bites with no remorse
Your eyes struggle to read my ageless soul
Lost
Dark
You open...
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Categories:
depression, emo, future, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
I Wandered Lonely As a Boat"I wandered lonely as a cloud." William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a boat
a shallow dingy left behind,
alone in marsh...
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Categories:
metaphor, age, boat, fate, lonely,
Form:
Lyric
The EndThe End
Seeing through these cold dead eyes now,
This world looks much different.
The scars of one’s life entire,
Appear now for all to see.
What once meant everything,
Really...
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Categories:
metaphor, change, death, god, heaven,
Form:
Lyric
Snow -A SleepSnow -
a sleep
descending on the twilight streets;
Snow, in silent fields you lie pristine
beneath moon’s glow, a blanket shimmering.
Oblivion serene!
Tranquilly envelop me in
Sleep -
a snow;
the more...
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Categories:
metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on...
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Categories:
metaphor, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
The Rowboat On the MarshI don't need mawkish photographs to see
the drowning rowboat tethered to the dock,
a withered seahorse clinging to debris
as umber water seeps through feeble caulk.
The cord...
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Categories:
death, imagery, metaphor,
Form:
Sonnet
The Poem Garden
I have a little garden
growing on a page.
No mint, I beg your pardon.
I hope that there is sage.
It’s ideas I plant there
to see what they...
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Categories:
garden, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Love's Alchemy Is EternalLove’s Alchemy is Eternal
Your look, touch, and scent now so perfect pure,
Enchants my true emotions and soaring passion.
I knoweth now our love shall always endure,
As...
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Categories:
metaphor, dream, emotions, god, heaven,
Form:
Sonnet
Categories:
metaphor, appreciation, friendship, life, love,
Form:
Quatrain
Ode To DewdropsYou hang there on the rise of dawn
Bending twigs where you cling,
Glistening gems on sunlit lawn,
Where I greet you before you're gone,
Before my passions forlorn...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, metaphor, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Yellow Shoes In the DarknessWalking through the land of shadows
wearing my yellow shoes
With each and every step
I created color and hues
The shadows started retreating
As color permeated the ground
Out...
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Categories:
me, metaphor, places, yellow,
Form:
Quatrain
Sand Castle De Mal~Sand Castle De Mal~
Beauty sails along the shores of life
Out there broken dreams form above sand dunes
Silent, God listens to the triumph of his creation
3-14-2015
3...
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Categories:
metaphor, beautiful, beauty, deep, dream,
Form:
Verse
Silence PersonifiedI am nature,
soul of a mountain,
buried under
a billion snowflakes.
I float like butterflies,
from petal to petal.
As cinereal clouds clear,
under a glistening sunrise,
I illuminate like a...
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Categories:
analogy, metaphor, silence,
Form:
Personification