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Chronicles of the wayfaring seaThe sea stretches across a vast expanse
Blue and white, do the waves prance
As a boat struggles to stay afloat
When the waves draw themselves to their height entire
The folks crouch down and say oh sire!
Spare...
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Categories:
simile, allegory, allusion, analogy, creation,
Form: Free verse
Unfinished
like
dragonfly
with
broken
wing
unfinished
dreams
never
take
flight
...
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Categories:
simile,
Form: Verse
Fun• Blue eyes with a red sclera
• Lashes as yellow as the sun
• He always saw the world differently
• I figured he was just having fun
• He would jump the fences of school playgrounds
• And...
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Categories:
simile, 11th grade, child, children,
Form: Rhyme
OF THE NATURE OF LIFE
OF THE NATURE OF LIFE
(A Senryu Trio)
Seasons of nature
reflect the nature of life;
challenging changes:-
Each season weathers,
claiming its own uniqueness;
just as our lives do:-
Let’s live seasoned lives.
No matter the challenges,
live...
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Categories:
simile, encouraging, inspiration, life, nature,
Form: Senryu
Overwhelming
His love incarcerates her heart
Like a prisoner captive in shackles
Inescapable
All consuming,
Overwhelming
Like a magnet to its metal.
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Categories:
simile, crush, heart, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
UMOJA
UMOJA
(A Kwanza Triad)
Love's the greatest gift;
It's the harvest of Christ;
Nourishing oneness:-
Like fruits and their seeds,
Let us be in life's onement;
Ripening in oneness:-
In love's unity,
Let's live in oneness;
God having us be:-
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Categories:
simile, allegory,
Form: Prose Poetry
SUN-FLOWERING PEOPLESUN-FLOWERING PEOPLE
Black and beautiful…
Liberty’s ebon flowers…
Rooted in freedom…
Like His sunflowers,
Let us stand in bright glory;
Sunshine gleaming us:-
Ebon sunflowers;
Our bright eyes stayed on the prize–
Liberty’s statues:-
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Categories:
simile, africa, allegory, analogy, black
Form: Haiku
Unreachable RoleBy George P. Lumayag
The cast tried to act his dramatic role in the teaching-learning arc;
He portrayed a character he knew very much
with a very adjusted tone of his artistic acts.
He loved it so he danced...
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Categories:
simile, 10th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Palette of PotentialThere is always that person
Who is the most important after parents.
The one who thought us everything
And made us who we are now.
The art of being a teacher
Is like eternity.
The endless joy of progressions,
Is the ecstasy...
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Categories:
simile, art, career, confidence, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Love's EmbraceLove came to me like a warm fire
Hugging me in a cold wintry night
As a burning bush you engulfed me
In your flames of desire
A little delay till our souls met
Never caused any...
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Categories:
simile, desire, fire, imagery, love,
Form: Free verse
I Miss YouI miss you
like the parched earth thirsts for the rain
I miss you
like the nightingale's song heralds the coming of spring
I miss you
like the night birds wait for the darkness to fall
I miss you
like a warm...
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Categories:
simile, feelings, i miss you,
Form: Free verse
Poets and Cephalopods - Oh OctopiYou may consider it extremely odd
I’m so easily influenced by a cephalopod
Eight arms, three hearts, blue blood, nine brains
All unique, yet something else remains
The most important fact on which to think?
Cephalopods, like poets, possess special...
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Categories:
flying, imagination, metaphor, simile,
Form: Rhyme
bottomred box in the window,
inside a black widow
playing this fiddle tune,
heartbreak to be consumed.
she is not some honey,
she is not for money,
she’s just kinda hungry,
for your body and mind.
in the nighttime moonlight,
when the orb blinks...
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Categories:
simile, art, beautiful, cool, dark,
Form: Free verse
FALL'S FALLINGSTears falling like rain,
Face aping nature's playground;
Fall's pollen is here:-...
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Categories:
simile, 8th grade, autumn, imagery,
Form: Haiku
FALL'S FALLINGTears falling like rain,
My face apes nature's playground;
Fall's pollen is here:-...
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Categories:
simile, autumn, cute, metaphor, middle
Form: Haiku
Specific Types of Simile Poems
Read wonderful simile poetry on the following sub-topics:
animal, christmas, dogs, family, funny, kids, life, love, metaphor, mother, nature, ocean, spring,
and more.
Definition | What is Simile in Poetry?