Metaphor Poems
Metaphor
Robert Burns - 306. Election Ballad At Close Of Contest For Representing The Dumfries Burghs, 1790
FINTRY, my stay in wordly strife,Friend o’ my muse, friend o’ my life, Are ye as idle’s I am?Come then, wi’ uncouth.- Metaphor poems.
Raymond A Foss - A Hammer Blow To The Ice
Maybe the metaphor shouldn’t bepebbles thrown into the pond;maybe the more apt analogythe hope, and the trepidationis the idea of.- Metaphor poems.
Raymond A Foss - A Mighty Seed
Hidden in the small kernel,the collection of a few cells,the whole of a tree, a mighty shrub,a home for birds, or morea metaphor of.- Metaphor poems.
Les Murray - A Retrospect Of Humidity
All the air conditioners now slackentheir hummed carrier wave. Once againwe've served our three months with remissionsin the steam.- Metaphor poems.
William Carlos Williams - A Sort Of A Song
Let the snake wait underhis weedand the writingbe of words, slow and quick, sharpto strike, quiet to wait,sleepless.—through metaphor.- Metaphor poems.
Adrienne Rich - A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
My swirling wants. Your frozen lips.The grammar turned and attacked me.Themes, written under duress.Emptiness of the notations.They.- Metaphor poems.
Nick Flynn - Alan Dugan Telling Me I Have A Problem With Time
He reads my latest attempt at a poemand is silent for a long time, until it feelslike that night we waited for Apollo,my mother wandering.- Metaphor poems.
Carl Sandburg - Alley Rats
THEY were calling certain styles of whiskers by the name of “lilacs.”And another manner of beard assumed in their chatter a verbal.- Metaphor poems.
William Butler Yeats - At Algeciras A Meditaton Upon Death
The heron-billed pale cattle-birdsThat feed on some foul parasiteOf the Moroccan flocks and herdsCross the narrow Straits to lightIn.- Metaphor poems.
Derek Walcott - Forest Of Europe
The last leaves fell like notes from a pianoand left their ovals echoing in the ear;with gawky music stands, the winter forestlooks.- Metaphor poems.
Judy Grahn - Helen In Hollywood
When she goes to Hollywoodshe is an angel.She writes in red red lipstickon the window of her body,long for me, oh need me!Parts her.- Metaphor poems.
William Butler Yeats - High Talk
Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty.- Metaphor poems.
Thomas Blackburn - Hospital For Defectives
By your unnumbered charitiesA miracle disclose,Lord of the Images, whose loveThe eyelids and the rose Takes for a language, and todayTell.- Metaphor poems.
Dylan Thomas - If I Were Tickled By The Rub Of Love
If I were tickled by the rub of love,A rooking girl who stole me for her side,Broke through her straws, breaking my bandaged string,If.- Metaphor poems.
Elizabeth Jennings - In A Garden
When the gardener has gone this gardenLooks wistful and seems waiting an event.It is so spruce, a metaphor of EdenAnd even more so.- Metaphor poems.
Vernon Scannell - Incendiary
That one small boy with a face like pallid cheese And burnt-out little eyes could make a blaze As brazen, fierce and huge, as red and.- Metaphor poems.
Edna St Vincent Millay - Interim
The room is full of you!—As I came inAnd closed the door behind me, all at onceA something in the air, intangible,Yet stiff with.- Metaphor poems.
Erica Jong - LoveSpell: Against Endings
All the endings in my liferise up against melike that sea of troublesShakespeare mixedwith metaphors;like Vikings in their boatssinging.- Metaphor poems.
James Tate - Loyalty
This is the hardest part:When I came back to lifeI was a good family dogand not too friendly to strangers.I got a thirty-five dollar.- Metaphor poems.
Edward Taylor - Loyalty
This is the hardest part:When I came back to lifeI was a good family dogand not too friendly to strangers.I got a thirty-five dollar.- Metaphor poems.
Wallace Stevens - Metaphors Of A Magnifico
Twenty men crossing a bridge,Into a village,Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,Into twenty villages,Or one manCrossing a single.- Metaphor poems.
Craig Raine - Nature Study
(for Rona, Jeremy, Sam & Grace)All the lizards are asleep--perched pagodas with tiny triangular tiles,each milky lid a steamed-up window.Inside,.- Metaphor poems.
David Lehman - November 6
Remember when Khrushchev said"We will bury you!"on the coverof TimeI thought he wasemploying a metaphoras in "Braves Scalp Giants!"on.- Metaphor poems.
Wallace Stevens - Poem Written At Morning
A sunny day's complete PoussinianaDivide it from itself. It is this or thatAnd it is not.By metaphor you paintA thing. Thus, the pineapple.- Metaphor poems.
Andrew Hudgins - Praying Drunk
Our Father who art in heaven, I am drunk.Again. Red wine. For which I offer thanks.I ought to start with praise, but praisecomes hard.- Metaphor poems.
FINTRY, my stay in wordly strife,Friend o’ my muse, friend o’ my life, Are ye as idle’s I am?Come then, wi’ uncouth.- Metaphor poems.
Raymond A Foss - A Hammer Blow To The Ice
Maybe the metaphor shouldn’t bepebbles thrown into the pond;maybe the more apt analogythe hope, and the trepidationis the idea of.- Metaphor poems.
Raymond A Foss - A Mighty Seed
Hidden in the small kernel,the collection of a few cells,the whole of a tree, a mighty shrub,a home for birds, or morea metaphor of.- Metaphor poems.
Les Murray - A Retrospect Of Humidity
All the air conditioners now slackentheir hummed carrier wave. Once againwe've served our three months with remissionsin the steam.- Metaphor poems.
William Carlos Williams - A Sort Of A Song
Let the snake wait underhis weedand the writingbe of words, slow and quick, sharpto strike, quiet to wait,sleepless.—through metaphor.- Metaphor poems.
Adrienne Rich - A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
My swirling wants. Your frozen lips.The grammar turned and attacked me.Themes, written under duress.Emptiness of the notations.They.- Metaphor poems.
Nick Flynn - Alan Dugan Telling Me I Have A Problem With Time
He reads my latest attempt at a poemand is silent for a long time, until it feelslike that night we waited for Apollo,my mother wandering.- Metaphor poems.
Carl Sandburg - Alley Rats
THEY were calling certain styles of whiskers by the name of “lilacs.”And another manner of beard assumed in their chatter a verbal.- Metaphor poems.
William Butler Yeats - At Algeciras A Meditaton Upon Death
The heron-billed pale cattle-birdsThat feed on some foul parasiteOf the Moroccan flocks and herdsCross the narrow Straits to lightIn.- Metaphor poems.
Derek Walcott - Forest Of Europe
The last leaves fell like notes from a pianoand left their ovals echoing in the ear;with gawky music stands, the winter forestlooks.- Metaphor poems.
Judy Grahn - Helen In Hollywood
When she goes to Hollywoodshe is an angel.She writes in red red lipstickon the window of her body,long for me, oh need me!Parts her.- Metaphor poems.
William Butler Yeats - High Talk
Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty.- Metaphor poems.
Thomas Blackburn - Hospital For Defectives
By your unnumbered charitiesA miracle disclose,Lord of the Images, whose loveThe eyelids and the rose Takes for a language, and todayTell.- Metaphor poems.
Dylan Thomas - If I Were Tickled By The Rub Of Love
If I were tickled by the rub of love,A rooking girl who stole me for her side,Broke through her straws, breaking my bandaged string,If.- Metaphor poems.
Elizabeth Jennings - In A Garden
When the gardener has gone this gardenLooks wistful and seems waiting an event.It is so spruce, a metaphor of EdenAnd even more so.- Metaphor poems.
Vernon Scannell - Incendiary
That one small boy with a face like pallid cheese And burnt-out little eyes could make a blaze As brazen, fierce and huge, as red and.- Metaphor poems.
Edna St Vincent Millay - Interim
The room is full of you!—As I came inAnd closed the door behind me, all at onceA something in the air, intangible,Yet stiff with.- Metaphor poems.
Erica Jong - LoveSpell: Against Endings
All the endings in my liferise up against melike that sea of troublesShakespeare mixedwith metaphors;like Vikings in their boatssinging.- Metaphor poems.
James Tate - Loyalty
This is the hardest part:When I came back to lifeI was a good family dogand not too friendly to strangers.I got a thirty-five dollar.- Metaphor poems.
Edward Taylor - Loyalty
This is the hardest part:When I came back to lifeI was a good family dogand not too friendly to strangers.I got a thirty-five dollar.- Metaphor poems.
Wallace Stevens - Metaphors Of A Magnifico
Twenty men crossing a bridge,Into a village,Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,Into twenty villages,Or one manCrossing a single.- Metaphor poems.
Craig Raine - Nature Study
(for Rona, Jeremy, Sam & Grace)All the lizards are asleep--perched pagodas with tiny triangular tiles,each milky lid a steamed-up window.Inside,.- Metaphor poems.
David Lehman - November 6
Remember when Khrushchev said"We will bury you!"on the coverof TimeI thought he wasemploying a metaphoras in "Braves Scalp Giants!"on.- Metaphor poems.
Wallace Stevens - Poem Written At Morning
A sunny day's complete PoussinianaDivide it from itself. It is this or thatAnd it is not.By metaphor you paintA thing. Thus, the pineapple.- Metaphor poems.
Andrew Hudgins - Praying Drunk
Our Father who art in heaven, I am drunk.Again. Red wine. For which I offer thanks.I ought to start with praise, but praisecomes hard.- Metaphor poems.
