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Metaphor Fishing Poems

These Metaphor Fishing poems are examples of Fishing poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Fishing Metaphor poems written by international poets.

VIRTUAL FISHING



       

     we fish in the sea of poetry
      ...

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Categories: fishing, allusion, extended metaphor, fantasy,

Fishin’ for Time

In the pure bright wake, I went fishing’ for calm and all I caught was tumblin’ time. 
The hours were soppin’wet with pond scum and...

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Categories: emotions, extended metaphor, fishing,

FISHING POEMS


    
         Poems swim in my sea
  They are light fish, I seek...

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Categories: allusion, extended metaphor, fishing,

Fishing

I threw my fishing rod into murky waters
And, as you might have guessed, caught a lousy nothing.
But true as that may be, my bait worm...

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Categories: fishing, allusion, anxiety, career, change,

The Insurgent

Like fisherman caught
Using earthworm as live bait,
Catch fish through its mouth....

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Categories: career, fishing, metaphor, sea,

Fishing

Agile fishes in the lake,
    the man absorbed on the bank:
     fishing fish or poetry?...

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Categories: fishing, adventure, allegory, allusion, appreciation,

Nautilus Ii

A chambered shell 
with each a secret Lie. 
Memory dwells spiraling 
down deep and only the Infinity 
knows what is kept in each. 
A secret...

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Categories: fishing, allegory, allusion, analogy, art,

Dreamy Earthworm Dreams of Fishing

buried underground
dreamer worm anxiously waits
catch fish in the sea...

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Categories: fishing, allegory, allusion, dream, fish,

Safe Harbor

Safe Harbor
by Michael R. Burch

for Kevin N. Roberts

The sea at night seems
an alembic of dreams—
the moans of the gulls,
the foghorns’ bawlings.

A century late
to be melancholy,
I...

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Categories: fishing, boat, dream, extended metaphor,

The Fishing

Wind is swinging boat, it’s frail
on a shoulder of a wave,
Stranger’s bored in it, thoughts sail
full of laziness, they save
idleness, he wants no sailing
And he...

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Categories: fishing, boat, hero, metaphor, mythology,

'catch and Release'

"Catch and Release"

To some folk who love fishing, it's PATH of the heart,
Though it's true not all fish can be saved in this way,
The occasional...

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Categories: celebration, fishing, happiness, philosophy,

The Fish Know I'M Coming

The fish know I’m coming

Turtles line the logs
Swans parade in pre-game frenzy
Geese honk from the cheep seats
Muskrat groundskeepers tend the “field”
Bullfrog-voiced announcers “harrumph” the goings...

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Categories: fish, fishing, metaphor,

The Ambiguous Red Herring

Fished all day not a red herring on the line               ...

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Categories: fish, fishing, funny, irony,

Fishing

I’m an All-Star at bottling emotions,
I run around my court dribbling emotions
onto paper. Ball hogging my sensitivities,
no one has ever been able to catch me..
I’m...

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Categories: deep, fishing, love, love