Informative examples of metaphors compare two seemingly unrelated masses and illustrate the similarities between them in a natural manner. If you compare a snowflake with human worries, we could say, Don’t flurry about life so much. Your snow will melt when the southerly winds arrive.

Oftentimes metaphors are handy when writing a poem. Throughout writing, these following examples of metaphors in poems have been composed. Each of the fairly short metaphor poems has a brief description to host the poem.

The first of the metaphors in poems shows how a person in his or her natural state is compared to a candle. Do you recall a time in life where you were feeling down and another candle clung to you, upon me meeting that individual 50% of the way? This extended metaphor poem is about such an experience.

A Candle





Lost in darkness of that day

I saw a distant candle

Being that I knew a way

I requested her handle.



I must have toiled half the way

To connect from such a length

Upon extending her my say

She bent over with sheer strength.



My wick digested her purity

I no longer realize that dark

When asked for my seniority

I just show this glaring spark.
 

The next of the short metaphor poems compare a human being to a tree. There are several figurative aspects relating a tree to a human being. Some are in this poem.

A Tree

I’m a tree deeply rooted

Within these years of soil

My vulnerable trunk is muted

From harsh wind and toil.

These leaves of beauty dangle

Composing a green sea

Every tree has an angle

To share a memory.

In these next poems using extended metaphors, metaphor poetry is described in a little more depth. Metaphorically speaking, we are going to slowly increase learning in the river’s flow. This next poem using metaphors compares a butterfly to a person.

Butterfly


I began my struggle

Grasping edges leaf to leaf

But my inner buckle

Strapped me in from any grief.



This persistent endurance

Began awakening a spark

I started seeing hints

Even in the darkest dark.



One day, an event occurred

Causing a balance loss

Being that I had conquered

A cocoon formed from the toss.



I emerged and flew away

To another point

When reviewing that past day

I appreciate my standpoint.

 

In this next metaphor poetry we review the power of words. This is one of the sample metaphor poems that likens words to seeds that must be planted with special care. In later sample metaphor poems you should get a taste of how to write a metaphor poem.

Words





A man was given a bucket of seeds

To plant within His field

Each one to echo his deed

So his purpose be fulfilled.



Being that he had many

Not knowing where to start

Before the area was rainy

He proceeded with his part.



“So many seeds” He thought

“Perhaps I shall drench the land”

He then poured wherever he sought

Dancing amidst the sand.



The crop turned very ail

Until the Farmer returned 

He was given another pail

Those planted weeds were scorned.



This time the man saw

Planting his seeds with care

From his observance of the law

The cropper enjoyed his share.

Baseball Words

He heard a ball bounce off those walls

Bearing a spectrum of light

The motion has a voice that calls

Just passed his way in delight

Tossed from a gentle height.

“Where shall this ball be passed?”

Those eyes searching for a place

Legs treading, walking fast

A request uttered from home base

“So let us fill that empty space. “

The spokesman ready with mitt in hand

Reserved in his stance

The object tossed, the outcome vast, AND

Crowds cheer from Greenland to France

From that motion came much romance!

This ball was placed in the pitchers mitt

The batter nervous but in good mind

“Am I ready to make it”

A doubtful curb the pitcher designed

A grand slam trophy as we rewind!

How To Write A Metaphor Poem

I can give you examples of poems but that by itself won’t yield a solid understanding. In this exercise I’ll briefly teach you how to write a good metaphor poem.

1. Get out a piece of paper and a pencil.

2. Seek the mass in your vicinity that your eyes see first.

3. Compare it to another element.

4. Alright, at this particular moment I’m in a room looking at a bookshelf. Several books are on it with many drawers. What is in these drawers?

Ok, now that we have information so how can we compose a poem containing metaphors about the book shelf? What about the shelf relates to something else? This following verse is a more interesting poem containing metaphors.

The Book Shelf

There is this one shelf I pass

Who always bares his load

So much knowledge to amass

And learn from his every code.

Every time I learn his drawers

Another lesson is revealed

Within my life I see new doors

That were once concealed.

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When composing a metaphor poem you should strive to create a generally meaningfully deep portrait. Deep meaningful poetry doesn’t require rhyming. The rhyme does spice the verse up, however.

One concept to avoid while writing a poem is force rhyming. You should always be in control. In order to avoid force rhyming, or rhyming just to rhyme consider the flow of the poem and let ideas flow naturally to you.

Thought is likened to being in a dark basement with a candle. As long as your candle is lit other candles are found. Once you have acquired those candles actions and words on paper begin to blossom.

Thank you,

-Adam Garfield-Turner