(Samples of poems using similes and metaphors)



(Samples of poems using similes and metaphors)

Absences, by Donald Justice

It's snowing this afternoon and there are no flowers.

There is only this sound of falling, quiet and remote,

Like the memory of scales descending the white keys

Of a childhood piano--outside the window, palms!

And the heavy head of the cereus, inclining,

Soon to let down its white or yellow-white.

Now, only these poor snow-flowers in a heap,

Like the memory of a white dress cast down . . .

So much has fallen.

                

                And I, who have listened for a step

All afternoon, hear it now, but already falling away,

Already in memory. And the terrible scales descending

On the silent piano; the snow; and the absent flowers abounding.

Chocolate Cake, author unknown

Friends are like chocolate cake, you can never

have too many.

Chocolate cake is like heaven -

always amazing you with each

taste or feeling.

Chocolate cake is like life with so many

different pieces.

Chocolate cake is like happiness,

you can never get enough of it.

(from a composition by William Blake)

Bring me my bow of burning gold!

Bring me my arrows of desire!

Bring me my spear!

O clouds unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire!

I will not cease from mental fight,

Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,

Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land.

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