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The term "metaphor poem" has been searched for 12091 times on the American Poems site since March 22nd, 2004.
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1. Poem Written At Morning - written by Wallace Stevens
Read 10288 times on American Poems.
A sunny day's complete Poussiniana
Divide it from itself. It is this or that
And it is not.
By metaphor you paint
A thing. Thus, the pineapple was a leather fruit,
A fruit for pewter, thorned and palmed and blue,
To be served by men of ice.
The... (Read full poem)
2. Alan Dugan Telling Me I Have A Problem With Time - written by Nick Flynn
From Some Ether.
Published in 2000.
Read 1615 times on American Poems.
He reads my latest attempt at a poem
and is silent for a long time, until it feels
like that night we waited for Apollo,
my mother wandering in and out of her bedroom, asking,
Haven't they landed yet? At last
Dugan throws it on the table and... (Read full poem)
3. Poem - written by Donald Justice
Read 46406 times on American Poems.
This poem is not addressed to you.
You may come into it briefly,
But no one will find you here, no one.
You will have changed before the poem will.
Even while you sit there, unmovable,
You have begun to vanish. And it does no matter.
The poem will... (Read full poem)
4. shapeshifter poems - written by Lucille Clifton
From Next.
Read 10534 times on American Poems.
1
the legend is whispered
in the women's tent
how the moon when she rises
full
follows some men into themselves
and changes them there
the season is short
but dreadful shapeshifters
they wear strange hands
they walk through the... (Read full poem)
5. Typhoon Signal No. 1 - written by Nick Carbo
Read 1218 times on American Poems.
This is where the typhoon starts—
inside the fourth paragraph,
ten city blocks away,
where the neurosurgeon halfs
La Celestina, where you occupy
the spot under that Tiffany lamp,
where Edgar Rice Burroughs laughs,
where sugar cane is... (Read full poem)
6. Your Dog Dies - written by Raymond Carver
Read 37936 times on American Poems.
it gets run over by a van.
you find it at the side of the road
and bury it.
you feel bad about it.
you feel bad personally,
but you feel bad for your daughter
because it was her pet,
and she loved it so.
she used to croon to it
and let it... (Read full poem)
7. Notice What This Poem Is Not Doing - written by William Stafford
Read 10706 times on American Poems.
The light along the hills in the morning
comes down slowly, naming the trees
white, then coasting the ground for stones to nominate.
Notice what this poem is not doing.
A house, a house, a barn, the old
quarry, where the river shrugs--
how much of... (Read full poem)
8. Introduction To Poetry - written by Billy Collins
From The Apple that Astonished Paris.
Published in 1988.
Read 10007 times on American Poems.
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I... (Read full poem)
9. Ars Poetica - written by Archibald MacLeish
Read 7811 times on American Poems.
A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit,
Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb,
Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown--
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.
*
A... (Read full poem)
10. Glass - written by Robert Francis
Read 2638 times on American Poems.
Words of a poem should be glass
But glass so simple-subtle its shape
Is nothing but the shape of what it holds.
A glass spun for itself is empty,
Brittle, at best Venetian trinket.
Embossed glass hides the poem or its absence.
Words should be... (Read full poem)
11. Glass - written by Robert Francis
Read 3151 times on American Poems.
Words of a poem should be glass
But glass so simple-subtle its shape
Is nothing but the shape of what it holds.
A glass spun for itself is empty,
Brittle, at best Venetian trinket.
Embossed glass hides the poem of its absence.
Words should... (Read full poem)
13. From an Atlas of the Difficult World - written by Adrienne Rich
Read 11925 times on American Poems.
I know you are reading this poem
late, before leaving your office
of the one intense yellow lamp-spot and the darkening window
in the lassitude of a building faded to quiet
long after rush-hour. I know you are reading this poem
standing up in... (Read full poem)
14. The Poem You Asked For - written by Larry Levis
From Wrecking Crew, University of Pittsburgh Press .
Published in 1972.
Read 3098 times on American Poems.
My poem would eat nothing.
I tried giving it water
but it said no,
worrying me.
Day after day,
I held it up to the llight,
turning it over,
but it only pressed its lips
more tightly together.
It grew sullen, like a toad
through... (Read full poem)
15. November 6 - written by David Lehman
Read 2134 times on American Poems.
Remember when Khrushchev said
"We will bury you!"
on the cover
of Time
I thought he was
employing a metaphor
as in "Braves Scalp Giants!"
on the back page
of the Daily News
I pictured the Russians
burying us under a mound
of all the rubble
that... (Read full poem)
16. A Sort Of A Song - written by William Carlos Williams
Read 15280 times on American Poems.
Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.
—through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my... (Read full poem)
18. Roger Heston - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 989 times on American Poems.
Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I
Argue about the freedom of the will.
My favorite metaphor was Prickett's cow
Roped out to grass, and free you know as far
As the length of the rope.
One day while arguing so, watching the cow
Pull at the... (Read full poem)
19. Very Like A Whale - written by Ogden Nash
Read 15404 times on American Poems.
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and metaphor.
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons or Celts,
Can'ts seem just to say that anything is the thing it... (Read full poem)
20. The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain - written by Wallace Stevens
Read 3503 times on American Poems.
There it was, word for word,
The poem that took the place of a mountain.
He breathed its oxygen,
Even when the book lay turned in the dust of his table.
It reminded him how he had needed
A place to go to in his own direction,
How he had... (Read full poem)
21. A Valediction Forbidding Mourning - written by Adrienne Rich
Read 16747 times on American Poems.
My swirling wants. Your frozen lips.
The grammar turned and attacked me.
Themes, written under duress.
Emptiness of the notations.
They gave me a drug that slowed the healing of wounds.
I want you to see this before I leave:
the experience... (Read full poem)
23. Poem (Faithful to your commands, o consciousness) - written by Delmore Schwartz
Published in 1962.
Read 594 times on American Poems.
Poem Faithful to your commands, o consciousness, o
Beating wings, I studied
the roses and the muses of reality,
the deceptions and the deceptive elation of the redness of the growing morning,
and all the greened and thomed variety of the vines... (Read full poem)
24. Madmen - written by Billy Collins
Read 2842 times on American Poems.
They say you can jinx a poem
if you talk about it before it is done.
If you let it out too early, they warn,
your poem will fly away,
and this time they are absolutely right.
Take the night I mentioned to you
I wanted to write about the madmen,
as... (Read full poem)
25. Poem in Prose - written by Archibald MacLeish
Read 1194 times on American Poems.
This poem is for my wife.
I have made it plainly and honestly:
The mark is on it
Like the burl on the knife.
I have not made it for praise.
She has no more need for praise
Than summer has
Or the bright days.
In all that becomes a... (Read full poem)
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