Poems about metaphor

• Shock Therapy?

  locked square in place, crushed solid into plasmic dust from within:
  slow steady smooth incandescent streak

  by intoothandclaw 25 lines, 4 comments, 2 days ago. In Personal, Dark, Thoughts, Abstract, Metaphor, Death, Paradox
• Time to Be Going Off

  standing all a-tremble
  at the knife-edge of inevitability --

  by intoothandclaw 33 lines, 1 comment, 2 days ago. In Thoughts, Spiritual, Abstract, Free verse, Personal, Metaphor
• Artic

  Whispering winds,
  tear through my peacful surenity

  by RainShatteredDreams 24 lines, 3 comments, 2 days ago. In Personal, Thoughts, Life, Sad, Pain, Contest, My own style, Hidden Message, Metaphor
• She waited with clouds, but the wind wouldn't cease.

  by Laura Lamarca 21 lines, 6 comments, 2 days ago. In Metaphor, Deep, Personal
• meteor showers are misunderstood.

  please stop viewing this and not commenting. constructive criticism welcomed; no need to applaud

  by Not-The-Sun 10 lines, 12 comments, on Nov 5 10:05 PM. In Contest, Metaphor, Weird, Sad, Imagery
• .... of a Better Day

  Swollen leaves sink below the branches.
  Death and decay is the new decor.

  by Injury 15 lines, on Nov 5 9:31 PM. In Thoughts, Metaphor, Personal
• A Child Wanting Attention

  by hardeepb 22 lines, on Nov 5 9:01 PM. In Sadness, Metaphor
• Human Universe

  atom to atom, we connect
  through dark energy named love

  by MoonHelixEpiphany 47 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 5 2:26 PM. In Metaphor, Abstract, Thoughts, Space, Universe
• Garden.

  No words are uttered,
  no return of desire,

  by winterlights 36 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 5 3:11 AM. In metaphor, love, personal, thoughts, loss, time, hope
• Dear soul: please speak without sound.

  by Laura Lamarca 12 lines, 10 comments, on Nov 4 10:04 AM. In Personal, Metaphor, Deep.
• Una Taza, Sola

  by Nickelspring 11 lines, 24 comments, on Nov 3 2:24 PM. In Prose, metaphor, personification, ULL
• Portraits that weep on the spoils of forever.

  by Laura Lamarca 66 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 3 1:09 PM. In Metaphor, Dark, Love, Deep
• The death of days & rays of raspberry.

  by Laura Lamarca 11 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 3 12:03 PM. In Metaphor, Dark, Love, Deep
• To catch a salmon.

  by Laura Lamarca 13 lines, 10 comments, on Nov 3 3:38 AM. In Metaphor, Deep, Dark, Personal
• love carnival

  by Not-The-Sun 18 lines, 2 comments, on Nov 2 10:14 PM. In Contest, Love, Metaphor, Imagery
• Wharerangi

  by just mercedes 41 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 1 6:50 PM. In Contest, Dark, Metaphor, noguest
• Lost Woodman

  Burnt almond shadows peer through
  foliage of forgotten, where dreams

  by mysticstorm 13 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 1 3:14 AM. In Thoughts, Pain, Imagery, Metaphor, Freewrite
• Morning After

  by mysticstorm 22 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 1 1:22 AM. In Life, Thoughts, Metaphor
• Season of Wonder …

  Volumes of distinctive treasure
  Spread like carpets for our mind ...

  by waydownuponjoy 15 lines, 9 comments, on Oct 30 9:55 AM. In Contest, Creative, Imagery, Metaphor, Philosophy, Thoughts
• Death on the road.

  by Laura Lamarca 23 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 30 8:44 AM. In Dark, Metaphor
• © Sadistic Drug

  If it is only you that fuels me to go on; then by embracing you I smell of gas

  by Archangel Knight 12 lines, on Oct 29 11:03 PM. In Mind, Memories, Metaphor, Sick, Head Games, Thoughts, Past, Weird, Love
• Tempest

  by Not-The-Sun 15 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 26 10:29 PM. In Contest, Quickie, Life, Love, Metaphor
• He was tainted trapeze & less than a treat.

  by Laura Lamarca 7 lines, 7 comments, on Oct 26 6:59 PM. In Metaphor, Prose, Deep
• JAMAL {Mathnavi-e Ma navi}

  by liquidmindforever 87 lines, on Oct 25 2:34 PM. In Abstract, Metaphor, Spiritual, Arcane Search for the Beloved, Love
• Deep Roots

  by TormentedPhantom 5 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 23 12:15 PM. In Contest, Contemporary, Thoughts, Metaphor, Life
• A Struggling Rose

  "Now I sit as a wallflower dying, dying inside"

  by Rose Angel 26 lines, 26 comments, on Oct 23 1:04 AM. In Pain, Life, Thoughts, My own style, Hope, Metaphor, Contest
• I wandered wisely as a bird.

  by Laura Lamarca 9 lines, 23 comments, on Oct 22 3:12 AM. In Love, Metaphor, Dark, Sad
• Against Cold Metal

  Metaphors mixed with real imagery--a first for me.

  by GinryuStargazer 34 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 20 9:20 PM. In Metaphor, Thoughts, Pain, Life, GinryuStargazer
• Streams swell soft, defenceless.

  by Laura Lamarca 26 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 20 7:02 AM. In Personal, Dark, Metaphor
• Fatal Autumn (One day in September)

  by reinhardt-napoleon 55 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 19 7:31 PM. In Personal, Metaphor, Life, History, Tragedy, Other
• You Always Were A Liar

  by xJustifiablyMex 20 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 17 12:19 PM. In Metaphor, Pain, Love
• Rock-a-bye lost and a cry full of care[less].

  by Laura Lamarca 50 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 17 9:56 AM. In Metaphor, Adult, Angst, Pain, Dark, Deep
• Coughing-up Sun

  "So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud,
  Sweet Hope, celestial influence round me shed"~John Keats

  by Blue Rew 46 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 15 8:09 PM. In nature, hope, metaphor, personification, colour
• holding on for too long

  by Not-The-Sun 8 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 14 2:06 PM. In Nature, Metaphor, Free Verse, Contest
• Tree leaves and pavements.

  by Laura Lamarca 12 lines, 13 comments, on Oct 13 4:45 AM. In Personal, Deep, Metaphor
• Unrealized

  Life came through her garden, humming
  ageless songs within her throat.

  by Zahhar 24 lines, 14 comments, on Oct 12 5:05 AM. In Personal, Life, Metaphor
• How many times dead before i wake?

  by Laura Lamarca 45 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 12 3:16 AM. In Personal, Deep, Dark, Metaphor
• Manure Haunt.

  The Turkey never takes to the sky
  While the Falcon fly fathoms high.

  by SimplySonnets 19 lines, on Oct 11 11:23 AM. In Life, Nature, Society, Thoughts, Philosophy, My own style, Metaphor., Humanity
• Dear Angel of Filth

  by Catacomb 17 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 11 9:46 AM. In Adult, metaphor, personal
• i stole my own silence.

  by Laura Lamarca 17 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 10 5:16 PM. In Metaphor, Dark, Deep
• spring time cherry blossum damaged from my winter touch

  by Not-The-Sun 17 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 9 9:03 PM. In Contest, Picture Prompt, Weird, Metaphor, Imagery
• I Am

  I AM
  I am a Goddess and Musician.

  by LesbianOfLove 21 lines, on Oct 8 3:52 PM. In Self Expression, Self Esteem, Personal, Goddess, Spirtuality, Description, Metaphor
• Water

  A light flickers above
  As blood slowly flows down my chin

  by sfgiants452 58 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 7 10:14 AM. In Personal, Metaphor, Dark, Life
• Reclamation

  Prose~ (HM)
  
  

  by Nickelspring 10 lines, 16 comments, on Oct 6 6:18 PM. In Prompt, Metaphor, Prose, XF3
• Butterfly Net

  by Not-The-Sun 46 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 6 11:47 AM. In Contest, Life, Love, Nature, Prose, Metaphor, Personal
• Up...on the wings of wait.

  by Laura Lamarca 48 lines, 21 comments, on Oct 6 6:58 AM. In Metaphor, Deep
• Hawke's Lake

  After the long night I awake
  Unsure of my identity

  by Wandering Woodchuck 8 lines, 15 comments, on Oct 8 11:44 AM. In Metaphor, Nature, Dedication
• In The Hover of Lips

  In that moment when I witnessed
  contemplations wet your tongue;

  by Blue Rew 27 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 4 8:22 PM. In love, nature, hope, colour, metaphor
• & still she eked of elegance.

  by Laura Lamarca 19 lines, 14 comments, on Oct 4 5:34 PM. In Metaphor, Deep, Love, Hope
• Crosses

  by mysticstorm 15 lines, 15 comments, on Oct 1 12:40 AM. In Thoughts, Love, Imagery, Metaphor

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