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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
Categories:
extended metaphor, sea,
Form: Monoku
The Two WitnessesGod 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...
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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
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Categories:
extended metaphor, adventure, allegory, beautiful, blue,
Form: Romanticism
Shadows of the Eternal NightI 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...
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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...
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Categories:
allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
All That Rises Must FallHer 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.
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Categories:
creation, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
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
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:
extended 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:
extended 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:
extended metaphor, 12th grade, courage, emotions,
Form: Carpe Diem
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
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
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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