written by
Ngoc Nguyen
Categories:
extended metaphor, image, imagery, metaphor, nature, simile, snow,
Glacier, Nature's Sculptor
Glacier! Icy, cold,
hard. Diamond-like, it chisels
the frosty landscape.
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written by
Dave Collins
Categories:
art, beach, beauty, bird, cinderella, extended metaphor,
Posers
pretty pink ladies
on parade pose seaside to...
delight passersby
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, appreciation, extended metaphor, imagery, life, rose, teenage,
Tender Years
Over the green years,
all the days were always rose
wonder tender age...
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor, imagery, rain, winter,
Watery Winter Severe
autumn fast faded
watery eyes winter came
efface all brown hues
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beauty, creation, extended metaphor,
If I Compare Love To a Life
I match love with life
humanly a reverie
flower aesthetic
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written by
Millard Lowe
Categories:
allegory, analogy, deep, extended metaphor, imagery, introspection, nature,
Summer Heat Flashbacks
SUMMER HEAT FLASHBACKS…
Dry heat cracked the ground;
Wet whips cracked ancestors’ backs—
Juxtaposed flashbacks:-
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written by
Millard Lowe
Categories:
allegory, deep, extended metaphor, humanity, meaningful, philosophy, wisdom,
Haiku Contemplations
Thoughts—desires of mind;
Truth—reality that is:-
Be aware of both…
Ideology—
Subjective desires & hopes;
Nemesis of truth…
Look at the children,
A living human rainbow:-
Then comes adulthood…!
Truth is what it is,
Ideology is not;
Both control our lives.
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
abuse, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor, poetry, pollution,
Amazon Despair
tropical forests,
ten areas burn daily
sans replanted trees ...
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allusion, analogy, environment, extended metaphor, life, poetry, sea,
Living By the Sea
Living by the sea,
is to have a fragrant home
for marine odors ...!
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor, rain,
Drops of Rain Falling
water falling down
downy pearls caught in the night ~
for being free and safe in my bed i rejoice
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, beauty, creation, extended metaphor, firework, poetry,
Fireworks
All New Year's fireworks
they are radiant, bright but...
badly, reach the sky ...
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written by
Ben Griffin
Categories:
animal, extended metaphor, freedom, nature,
Sloth
Sleepy, droopy, green
She hangs, easy, in her tree;
So slow, forest dream.
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
adventure, allegory, allusion, extended metaphor,
When Returning Home
Strong Lightning rays fall
in the autumn twilight hour
when returning home
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, analogy, extended metaphor, garden, heart,
Pulsating Garden
Pulsating garden
cultivated in the heart
through poetic veins
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor, life,
Facing Life
wild waves we' will face
in this rough sea that is life...
thus brave, stoics we'll win
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, analogy, blessing, extended metaphor,
Planted and Harvested
On right time and due
all with love being harvested
with love is picked
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, beauty, creation, extended metaphor, imagery,
Poetic Dew
poetic vapors
dewy in the condensed dawns
morning poetry
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, appreciation, beauty, extended metaphor, imagery, night,
Night Party
Among shinning stars
and flickering firefly lights
night dress up party
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, appreciation, cat, extended metaphor, imagery, sleep,
Sleeping Cat Caught
cat on a weigh scale
calmly with a clear conscience
sleeps deep heavy dream
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written by
Thomas Wells
Categories:
death, extended metaphor, mystery, myth, prayer, spiritual, stars,
Stonehenge
Stonehenge sang to me.
Singing stone-age ancestors.
They chant in the stars.
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
adventure, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor, rain,
Feast At the Swamp
those fresh swamp rains came
muddying faces of swamp,
all toads and frogs feast...
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Demanding God
I regard and say
longer I live I ask God
further sage i pray
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allusion, extended metaphor, moon, sun, tree,
Coconut Tree On the Beach
Rests in the moonlight
Coconut tree tanned by sun
watched by languid sea
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, creation, extended metaphor, love, night, poetry,
Night Made For Loving
Night so sensual,
nirvana astral alcove,
purest bed for love ...
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation, extended metaphor, wind,
Natural Fan
Wind, natural fan
so indistinctly refresh,
who parades outdoors...
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written by
Emile Pinet
Categories:
character, extended metaphor, how i feel, image, imagery, nature, symbolism,
Essence
fauna and flora
the essence of nature's brush...
ephemeral art
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, analogy, drink, extended metaphor,
Bohemia
On space I sip air
in bar I drink ecstasy
waiter one more round !
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
adventure, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor, light, magic, travel,
Voyage of the Sun Light
That sun of the past
arrived to the present tense
time travel simply.
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written by
Millard Lowe
Categories:
analogy, betrayal, extended metaphor, halloween, imagination, political, wisdom,
Halloween Politics: a Haiku Trilogy
HALLOWEEN POLITICS: A HAIKU TRILOGY
Halloween…coming…
Aping today’s politics:
No treats…just more tricks:-
Offering false treats,
Evil candidates ape ghosts;
Tricking scared voters:-
Halloween precedes
Coming midterm elections;
Voting tricks abound:-
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, appreciation, beauty, extended metaphor, flower, imagery,
Eventual Flowers In August
first flowers adorn
beauty september eager ...
in oddest august
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor, words,
Tender Words
Soft words, my dear friends
They are for the sensitive...
not for weak or strong
ps
weak trembles,
strong wrecks
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, beauty, color, extended metaphor, flower, garden,
Windy Afternoon
windy afternoon
in overcrowded garden
colors sway brightly
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor, fruit,
In a Brazilian Kitchen
Cashews and guavas
luscious contagious odors
perfume the kitchen
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written by
Alkas Poetry
Categories:
allegory, allusion, appreciation, beauty, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Butterflies
lovely butterflies
natural colorful flights
show themselves for life
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written by
Millard Lowe
Categories:
allegory, analogy, children, death, extended metaphor, horror, war,
Bowels of War
BOWELS OF WAR
Putin death-drone bombs;
Diarrhea-hate flowing down—
Children flushed away…
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