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Family Metaphor Poems

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


Premium Member 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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Categories: extended metaphor,



The Cruelty Of Wealth
Wealth, a siren's charm, alluring and bright
A pillow's softness, a thimble's gentle might
It provides for earthly needs, a feast to behold
Yet, in its depths, a...

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Categories: metaphor, allusion, hyperbole, imagery, irony,

Clemency
There 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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Categories: metaphor, abuse, brother, depression, endurance,

Premium Member 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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Categories: metaphor, child, courage, death, evil,

Premium Member THE WAKE WITHOUT VIGIL
Time 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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Categories: metaphor, allegory, anxiety, death, extended



Laughing With Tears in Our Eyes
It’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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Categories: metaphor, allusion, beauty, community, corruption,

END TIMES : ONE
END 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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Categories: metaphor, allegory, body, change, deep,

Hurricane
I start my day with the rising sun,
Got a lot of work before the day is done,
Back breaking and mind racing again,
I may stumble every...

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Categories: metaphor, angst, crazy, depression, grief,

Premium Member A Mother's Energy
A mother's energy 
cannot be created or destroyed,
only transformed or transferred;
always there in full,
meeting the challenges presented
to her at that time.

From her prenatal care-
then long...

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Categories: metaphor, strength, women,

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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Categories: extended metaphor, literature,

Happy Birthday Ink Empress

Dear poetry soup family, today is a very special day as we celebrate the birthday of a new year star ~ my lovely, Ink Empress....

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Categories: metaphor, birthday, devotion, emotions, meaningful,

The Stray
I 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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Categories: metaphor, addiction, change, depression, emotions,

The Downtrodden
Another 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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Categories: metaphor, abuse, anger, class, extended

Every rose has it's thorns, but not her
What 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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Categories: beauty, extended metaphor, flower,

Lifes' cards
Life'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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Categories: metaphor, absence, angst, care, extended


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