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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
BurntI enjoy the burn of the lighter's flame pushed by the wind.
I enjoyed the burn of the one who had made me smitten again.
I enjoyed it while it lasted, just like a cigarette.
...
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Categories:
simile, break up, first love,
Form: Sijo
WARRING FOR PEACE: OXYMORONIC!Where there is war,
There can be no peace;
No matter who or where you are,
We must, as one, tame this vicious beast:-
Where there is war,
There can be no peace;
No matter who are where you...
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Categories:
simile, allegory, hope, metaphor, moving
Form: Rhyme
Just Guess What!
Guess What? Let us have a little talk
Take a walk and know the winter thoughts
There is some time left to feel
the sweet essence of a wave a breeze
The reminder of the plan ahead
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Categories:
simile, appreciation, blessing, body, confidence,
Form: Narrative
Categories:
beauty, fruit, life, simile,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
emotions, language, perspective, simile,
Form: Than-Bauk
wind in one's sailsthe going gets tough
no pain no gain sink or swim
burn the midnight oil
soldier on stick to
your guns bite the bullet come
hell or high water
go the extra mile
the going gets tough stand your
ground...
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Categories:
analogy, metaphor, simile,
Form: Senryu
SOOTHED BY DEFEATMy opinion is an option
Their preferences a mandate
Our midpoint an ambiguity
The victory tastes bitter
Only the failure feels better
I then call it an intriguing skin
They name it an awkward scene
The softer tissues on touch
An awful...
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Categories:
simile, imagery, metaphor, onomatopoeia, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Breakers on the Sea
Like the waves of a storm-swept gray sea
breakers rushing furiously toward me
Thrashing recollections of what once was
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Categories:
lost, memory, sea, simile,
Form: Rubai
Time
a propellor spinning on ice
Time ramps up slowly
circles at a dizzying pace
unfurls once more
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Categories:
image, simile, time,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Simile Poems
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animal, christmas, dogs, family, funny, kids, life, love, metaphor, mother, nature, ocean, spring,
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Definition | What is Simile in Poetry?