Family Extended Metaphor Poems
These Family Extended Metaphor poems are examples of Extended Metaphor poems about Family. These are the best examples of Extended Metaphor Family poems written by international poets.
The Gas Station Paradox
A woman at the gas station
is unremarkable besides
her name tag reading Clarity
and her teeth, saying never mind.
She asks if I need a receipt....
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extended metaphor,
ClemencyThere was a girl named Clemency
who walked with me to college every morning.
Neither shy nor outspoken.
Her face was always concealed by a mask.
I have never...
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extended metaphor, abuse, brother, depression, endurance,
When Evil Hides Among Their Smiles
She whispered to me, "I hope you suffer well."
God heard her words, and he smiled,
for if suffering is what she wanted for me,
her hopes would...
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extended metaphor, child, courage, death, evil,
THE WAKE WITHOUT VIGILTime longer than rope
Chokes hearts dangling
In the reality of struggle:-
Grieving mothers and widows
Veil their grief in sagging bosoms
As they wail in excruciating silence:-
Fragments of men,...
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extended metaphor, allegory, anxiety, death, extended
Laughing With Tears in Our EyesIt’s a funny thing, life
Like the tightrope we balance on, the maze we forage,
Poised and sharp like an edge of a knife
We...
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extended metaphor, allusion, beauty, community, corruption,
END TIMES : ONEEND TIMES : ONE
[Poet’s Note : This poem arose out of a play on quote in Bible by Christ : “I will open my...
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extended metaphor, allegory, body, change, deep,
This whole world Part 2
This whole world is upside down
With everything that God doesn’t like
This whole world has become the Opposite
The opposite of Reality
It’s a Like...
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extended metaphor, literature,
The StrayI was born in the sunshine of your house.
I remember the soft fold of your smile,
As you read me bedtime stories,
Sprouting in my memory,
The fall...
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extended metaphor, addiction, change, depression, emotions,
The DowntroddenAnother man has passed away,
Another soul has passed away without casting a silhouette.
Another son is growing into another man,
Who will one day pass away like...
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extended metaphor, abuse, anger, class, extended
Every rose has it's thorns, but not herWhat is the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen?
A flower,
white and pure,
in a field of debris.
The lily maiden,
a lotus in the troubled oceans,
sprouting and unfolding,
emerging...
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beauty, extended metaphor, flower,
Lifes' cardsLife's a deck of cards, fate’s unsteady hand,
And I hold the joker, at life's command.
For every joy, a shadow falls,
A dance of highs, and sudden...
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extended metaphor, absence, angst, care, extended
home-made mealYou can eat me alive from the inside out:
rip my skin away and chop my bones.
I'll let you choke down my flesh and
slit my tummy.
Just...
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extended metaphor, abuse, allegory, angst, child
Makabre MarionettaHey mommy I am here to play
Daddy and brother are on the way
To the underworld where I sent them
By gutting tummies and dissecting
Innards...
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extended metaphor, character, child, conflict, dark,
Oddest Little BirdIt arrived yesterday, manifested gradual and absurd,
started with the surrounding area dying first,
then the original picture of a missing itty bitty bird,
levitating and unmovable.
More people...
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extended metaphor, crazy, dark, death, evil,
The Visitor's SolitudeIn a house where the heat once reigned,
The breeze arrived, its gift sustained,
A gentle drizzle kissed the pane,
As laughter echoed, hearts unchained.
Within the living room,...
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extended metaphor,