A metaphor is a comparison between two unlike things without using the words like or as. The writer simply states that one thing is something else or implies the comparison.
Examples:
- A babies laughter is a precious gift.
- Failure is a kite-eating tree.
- Parents are the engine of a child’s life.
- Loneliness an empty box of Cracker-Jacks after the circus leaves.
Post two of your best, worst, or funniest metaphors.
Then write a short extended metaphor poem of around 4 lines. Here is an example – it’s longer than 4 lines, but very good.
Life is a river going to the ocean
Born in the mountains, from the land
Flowing flowing never stopping motion.
Things try to slow the trip, like gravel and sand
But gravity takes hold and life gets quick
Sad, happy, sit, walk
Life is life there is no trick
In the end, it’s a pine box.
Anger is a fire that doesn’t go out.
Freedom is a pair of wings
Waves are soilders fighting for the ocean
A mother is the smell of fresh pie.
Lemons are….. a bad lie
Anger is sweet love.
Girls are angels in my my soul.
Memories are steam that will fade away
A button is a wormhole to the future.
Truth is a bee sting.
Memories are a ray of sunshine on your skin.
Money is the life force of a community.
Truth is unsweetened lemonade.
Money is a greedy monster.
A button is a door to anywhere.
Life is climbing up stairs
Age is a clock on the wall
A button is a key to freedom
A mother is good food
Waves are a woman knocking on doors.
Freedom is a breath of fresh air.
Anger is a hot head yelling his ears off.
A mother is a guard in a prison.
Lemons are powerful beings.
1. Lemons are a bad surgery.
2. Money is my boyfriend.
Money is ice cream on a hot summer day.
Truth is sticking a knife into your heart.
My life is a tall mountain
sometimes its all ragged and steep
sad and bad
sometimes its a fresh blanket of snow
joyfull and free.
love is blind sight
It’s not right
The heart needs an ice pack
Boom! its a smoochy smack
~Addiction~
He is an addiction
You can’t live without him
All his love is a total fiction
The chances you’ll survive are slim
Love is pain and that’s my prediction.
Her eyes are bullets
Aiming for my heart
Shooting straight into my chest
And ripping it apart
Love is a game
Everyone can play
It’s all fun and games
Until someone loses in pain
Love
Love is a heart attack,
hidden away from sight.
Until it comes out in surprise
and stabs you in the back.
Anger is a bumblebee
First happy and free
do one thing wrong
and you will be stung
Happiness
Happiness is a disease
It spreads around
Some can avoid it
But others cannot
My life is a big river
Drifting down when things go bad
When something stands in my way I go by
Joyfully drifting, having nothing stand in my way
My life is a speed fishing boat
Making money everyday
Faster than all others
Going through the bay
A truck is a teenager
looking dirty, while looking good
listening to music
while picking up hot girls
A gun is a crazy person
Never predictable
Dangerous and scary
Always loud and noisy
Life is a gift
You never know what you are going to get
It’s filled with surprises
But be happy with what you get
Or it will be taken from you