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Dance Metaphor Poems

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


Anatomy Of The Leg
In 2013 Amélie Ségarra danced on a Grand Piano with knives 
taped to the tips of her feet.
The room is empty apart from a single...

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Categories: metaphor, allusion, analogy, appreciation, daffodils,



In the inferno of night
a whisper of loss 
a phantom lace
a ghostly touch

fingers close, cold to taste
lingers laughter 
cracked bone-dry air
the clock chimes midnight 

it is backward here
in this...

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Categories: metaphor, angst, art, death, deep,

Ashen-Cradle
A haunting past that trails behind,
An unnerving shadow that fails to blend.
The harrowing voices that curve the bend,
Sending your sanity off to the other end.

The...

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© Smiti Basu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anxiety, death, funeral, metaphor,

Nature's Tapestry
A winsome weave, simple and real,
Warp and weft—a tight twill,
A weaverbird’s nest—strong and snug,
With soft crossways and tumphy tug.

Subtle cozy patterns, seldom revealed,
Cynical twists like...

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Categories: metaphor, beautiful, beauty, environment, extended

Premium Member To Be A Tangerine
"A spoonful of fantasy is often the best medicine for reality." - Poet

Somedays I'm a pale apple wishing to be a tangerine.
Fantasy focused fulfillment fondles...

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Categories: metaphor, dream, emotions, endurance, fantasy,



ELEPHANT WOMAN
  { emo music inspired poem }

ELEPHANT WOMAN 

She is Elephant Woman 
you cannot hide from her
in houses of brick or glass
lined velvet curtains
whether...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, character, courage, dance,

Where Word Takes Wing

The word takes flight, a borrowed feathered thing,
Not beak nor claw, yet on the mind takes wing.
A bridge unseen from object known and clear,
To realms...

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Categories: metaphor,

Premium Member Dance with Delusions
Dancing with delusions, sparks of hellfire
Course through my lugubrious quill pen.
Distorted words igniting fear,
Anxiety fills crevices,
Encircling, silencing,
Asphyxiating.
Walls closing in,
Compressing.
Hope fades,
Doom.
Dread
Runs cold.
Veins poisoned,
Sanity slips
Unmercifully.
The angels are...

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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, gothic, imagery, metaphor,

Rime fires Edge Inspired by Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The albatross, a frozen, spectral wing,
Hangs heavy 'cross the sky, no solace it can bring.
A ship of bones, on seas of liquid lead,
Where cursed winds...

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Categories: metaphor, adventure, dark, death, depression,

I CHOOSE TO DWELL IN THE CLOUDS
Sponsor : Tom Woody 

I CHOOSE TO DWELL IN THE CLOUDS 

I choose to dwell 
among clouds 
for a while
where fleshlessness a 
state of bliss...

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Categories: metaphor, birth, character, creation, earth,

Between Two Worlds
I stand barefoot on the cold moss,
the forest breathing around me,
each leaf a whisper,
each tree a silent witness to my thoughts.
The earth beneath me is...

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Categories: metaphor, city, dance, earth, imagery,

Premium Member A Poet's Plea
When secrets rest behind each moon 
between the lines of hidden tunes, 
my hope is that you'll sing along 
oh singer of my heartfelt songs....

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Categories: metaphor, beautiful, feelings, joy, love,

Mind of the Heart

Sponsored by : Unseeking Seeker
“Feeling, not thinking, Soul with Love linking
~ we attained God consciousness unblinking”.

Mind of the heart

Neither thinking 
nor feeling
~ Void ~

Soul penetrates...

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Categories: allegory, color, extended metaphor,

3 Elements of Poetry
Elements of Poetry(Written Word)

Through the written word, 
we transcend our bounds, 
And touch the hearts
 and minds of those around, 
We leave our mark,
 our...

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Categories: metaphor, analogy, appreciation, imagery, meaningful,

PARTY OF AVATARS



   all Masks show the truth
   falses deny their  faces -
     dance of avatars...

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Categories: allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,


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