Short Similes Poems

rain
falls
much like
similes
only when I am
reduced into synecdoches....

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To literal minds
similes are like stumbling blocks,
but
metaphors are death traps....

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Two AM.

The slice of sun 
replaced by wedge of moon-
light.

Upon the zabuton,
no cat now,
merely me. 

And truths spill and
tumbleclatter;
echo from my
heart...

in similes,
in mettaphor-
in lies....

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the words sting on the way down
burn my throat 
like tequila without a chaser
and slosh in the belly of my soul

"I don't want you anymore"

awaken the dull ache
salt the wound that never heals
but like rain on a cloudy day
it's a familiar feeling...

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A dash of rhyme there
Soupcons of metre here and there
Chiasmus crosses 
With alliteration in abundance
Hints of rhetorical questions?
Yes
Similes with style
A pinch of personification
Throw them all together
And what have you got?
Poetry soup!

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How To Have Gotten

Many answers exist how to get over a hump,
That are sung to the tune of Throw Out Trump;
At odds always,
Nights and days;
In the road, he sure has been one big bump.

Jim Horn

Did you see or hear any onomatopoeia,
or similes or metaphors anywhere?...

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BECAUSE HE IS HANDSOME,
BECAUSE HE IS CARING,
BECAUSE HE IS SMART, 
SINCIE HE SIMILES AT ME ALL THE TIME,
AS HE HUGS ME ALL THE TIME,
SINCIE HE IS SO PROTECTIVE,
SINCIE HE IS SO WATCHFUL,
BECAUSE HE IS SO CAREFUL IN WHAT HE SAYS AND DOES,
AS HE TOLD ME HE LOVES ME,
I TOLD HIM I LOVE YOU TO....

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There's a shark swimming in the soup
quietly circling and lurking
Hiding behind mean metaphors
and toothy snide similes

He's poised, ready to strike
and feast on the unwary
Ripping off the heads
of anyone muddying his waters

12/24/18

Contest Sponsor Anthony Slausin...

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Silhouettes set sail on stylish sofa
silent soundscapes stoke a stoic parlance 
memory’s sweet shelter sinks slowly when
scripting stress-free similes on sunsets
soulful strains sashay over scenic spots 
that stick in stubborn shadows so serene  
seclusion a stillborn starlit skyline

Date posted and created : 10th April 2021...

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SIMILES



The rich soil in my garden is blacker than my wife’s  hair
The delicate velvety peach is soft as  her skin
Delights of rose and ruby are less than her lips’ freshness 

The sunset today  is as radiant as her dress
When darkness falls  the stars are like her eyes within
And  spring breezes make the icicles tinkle like her laughter...

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When the cost of arrangement
Became deplorable
They puckered their cheeks
Running through windmills
And I remember when I cried
Beyond the gates where the heat started

I remember when sand covered our favorite places
Smiles were the first stops towards peace
And we gathered like similes simmering
With hope
Dying for one more chance....

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Some memories are a pantomime
in a dolls house.
A slide-show in a small theater;
audience of one.

The spectacle is painted in sunny colors
with skillful fairy-tale similes.

Then a watcher, eyes heavy with sarcasm,
bares its teeth and leaves.

A story teller
stretches a too long story-line,
a fraying thread snaps,
a curtain falls
he begins again....

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    Whither rhyme and meter
      counting the number of feet or
    sustained metaphors, sharp similes
      framework for what we called poetry

    Alas, today, almost anything goes  
      slams and raves some tend to ‘fave’
    while others dig obscenities and graves

    I hear tell there’s ‘a poetry revival’
      ~ though I sense a fight for survival...

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an outlet of mind 
inhaling words of others
poetic breathing
exhaling lines in rhythm
finding reason in the forms 

traces of living
marks the page…then exhibits
poetic cadence
metaphors in residence
similes exposed in verse

a white page mocking
while the pen bleeds lyrical…
creativity 
embedded pearls lending peeks
into hearts inspiration

All Rights Reserved  3/13/13...

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when students ask about metaphors
and similes 
i love it
but please stop identifying juxtaposition 
i hand them a 
dictionary
look it up yourself pal
i never had a classical education
and can't pronounce Persephone 
and don't 
believe anybody can
so just avoid that bit of the curriculum 
avoid the greeks
give me the graphic novels unit or give me death
metaphors be with you...

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My metaphors, like petit fours
   My similes work abysmally
My meter sometimes peters out
   Allusions, mere delusions

My irony shows its wrinkles
   Enjambment's full of kinkles
Iambic, Trochaic, and Passaic
   All strike me as rather archaic

Some bards swear by clever rhyme
   I only wish I had the time ~
Dare I don the crown of a 'Poet?'
   I leave it to the reader to bestow it...

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   My aspirations mock me
     my 'poetry's' prose

   When I 'sink' "I've 'got it now"
     ze toilet overflows 

   My metaphor's hum-drum, similes stale
     my allusions as delicate as Moby the Whale

   My plots are just schemes, so are my themes
     at night they turn dreams into screams... 

   Oh, how I wish just for once I could say ~
      I've really truly penned 'Poem of the Day'
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Poetry is art, art is poetry,
An amalgam of rare jewellery,
Words joined together in a unique way,
Expressing clearly what you want to say,
Add some similes, metaphors and rhymes,
A dash of poetic devices' chimes,
Conjuring up images with sweet words,
Talking of flowers, animals and birds,
Where else can you find such deep artistry?
Poetry is art, art is poetry.

09/20/18

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Flanked by violets and similes
   in a drafty den she pens
away fleet hours, pensive, concocting
   exotic brews of rarest essence

and scents, honey-tipped phrases
   in secret rhythmical chants  
known only to denizens of her
   innermost sanctum, where she,

perches, chin in hand, arranging
   delicate strands of sound, eliciting
murmurs from those gathered, who lionize her
   though she remains as the dust underfoot...

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*** Life’s Journey ***

Life’s an orbiting
Around reality and imagining
On chosen roads
So much all a coming or a going,
In times of waiting or flowing,
Loving and forgiving,
Along a range of highs and lows,
Venturing the known and unknown ~
Life’s forever a crawling,
Hoping to rise and run — 
Perhaps someday
To ride a song and fly!


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(c) sally young eslinger 12/7/2022
Thanks be to God…...

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Words
Nouns, adjectives, verbs...
Synonyms and antonyms
That constitute similes, metaphors, acronyms,

...and phrases

That by the brush of the tongue
Illustrate life
In all its phases

And by the collab
of heart and hand
Bring life
to blank pages...


Words,
Used to persuade,
Used to describe
Used to express
What is felt inside

Used to connect
Used to divide,
Used at your discretion
But in your selection,
Be wise...

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Breathe Mutiny

Shackle my hands so I cannot write.
My words will still put up a fight.

If ideas offend you, close the book.
If you seek the truth take a closer look.

Try all you can to put me down.
You will end up looking like the clown.

My verse is the voice and ear to my pain,
metaphors and similes in haunting refrain.

Lock me out the race.  Shame and denigrate me.
My thoughts will still breathe mutiny.

3/30/17...

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my silence is screaming,
shouts of a thousand words
begging  to be released from
a motionless playground of
metaphors on swings
caught in the air on high,
similes stuck on monkey bars,
personifications which cannot
get off suspended see saws,
as alliterations wait for their
turn to go down on slides
while the allegories are
immobile on merry-go-rounds,
my silence is screaming while
animation wants to take over the
frozen picture...

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Sacred Secrets

Somethings are so special,
They just cannot be penned.
Like the true beauty of the
jasmine.
Or how profoundly the depth
and love of your man.

Somethings supersede imagery,
words or similes.
Too sacred to be written or
expressed.
It's just you, leaning closely in
God's ear....
Whispering your life's personal eucharist!

*Greek origin. Eucharistia meant a giving 
of thanks, gratitude, etc.

June 16, 2019
10:pm PST
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the concept of a "hi-ku moment" ,personal experience  provides the sole motive for recording an aesthetic moment of a timeless feeling of enlightened harmony as the poet's nature and the environment are  unified in impressionist brevity with short succinct syntax,sans superfluous words, avoidance of metaphor and similes ,where an emphasis on imagery over exposition becomes ..genius... using an economy of words ..to paint a multi-tiered painting, without "telling all"....

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