PARALLELS/METAPHORS

The metaphors I have used in the poems I have written so far

HOME

Poem:limbo

"You made me believe in the dream that an empty lot 

 would become a mansion

While carrying the bricks, you left me there"

Poem: Drowning Means Burning

"You sold me your dream of a house with pink shutters in Germany

You ran away without paying the rent

You have a deposit left"

Poem: So-Called Home

"The house collapsed on me

now i am homeless"

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BOOK METAHPORS

Poem: I love you but

"Even there are books for me to finish for other day 

I'll read while laying on your chest"

Poem: Wrong Kind Of Happiness

"finished the book I told you about

the library guy is waiting for me to deliver it

but you are the one who always take me there"

"You always say that i am carried away by love and novels"

Poem: Hidden Songs

"stopped reading books, so you can't call me smart"

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SEA-BLUE METAPHORS

Poem: Drowning means Burning

"You never asked my favorite color

You knew it was the color of your eyes "

Poem: Fall

"your eyes reminds me of the winter�™

that cold baby blue like drugs"

Poem: Wrong Kind Of Happiness

"i wasn't drowning but waving"

Poem: Drowning means Burning

"I drowned and you hid me in the waves

I swam to shore and you sank me back"

Poem: Time

"And Pisces left me

But it's okay he left good lessons too

Which he was my favorite in all the blue

Poem: Fairytale

"Blue meant loyalty, now wilted."

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MONTHS/ SEASONS/ DATES �™

Poem: Wrong Kind Of Happiness

"The sun hasn't entered my room since September 10th

Poem: Drowning means Burning

"But we broke up on a Tuesday night in September "

Poem: Fall

"your eyes reminds me of the winter"

Poem: Wrong Kind Of Happiness

"woke up¹, winter seems coming

maybe you left because you don't like the winter

because my room doesn't see the sun⁴"

Poem: Fairtyale

"woke up¹ with the sun hitting my face."⁴

Poem:Fall

"fall"ing for you

Poem:Hidden Songs

thought i wouldn't be the fall guy*

Poem: Drowning means Burning

Yet when fall comes I thought we would fall in love 

Poem: Wrong Kind Of Happiness

"but I could warm you up

you wouldn't feel cold at all."

Poem: Drowning Means Burning

"You turned my summer into winter and I got sick with cold "

Poem:Limbo

"You were bragging about turning winter into summer

It was just a climate crisis, honey"

Poem: Drowning means Burning

"It was the fastest summer of my life. 

But the darkest night was June 21"

Poem: Hidden Songs

"wait for your call before June"

Poem: Wrong Kind Of Happiness

"but we loved love in June"

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COFFEE

Poem: Hidden Songs

"We are having coffee in your car

on the beach³ and in the bar "

Poem: Wrong Kind Of Happiness

"then we go to the beach³ and have coffee"

Poem: fairytale

I brewed two cups of coffee.

Poem: So called home

"I was going to make us coffee in the kitchen and talk about how happy I was"

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Poem: Hidden Songs

"deleted all the messages and that photo

you didn't even know i had taken"

Poem: Exorcism

"Not enough to delete photos

Not enough to delete messages

I need an exorcism"

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FLOWERS

Poem: Dead Flowers

"When the petals of the flowers in my heart fell and you thought it was a seasonal thing�™

I said they might need help

The flowers are dead now"

Poem: Fairtyale

"looked at the cup, flowers faded."

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MOON

Poem:I love you but

"I fight with the moon in my mind"

Poem:Fall

i thought moon only can be seen from my balcony

    **** meaning: I thought I was the only one who has problems

Poem:Hidden Songs

cause i packed my things to leave on the full moon

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Reviews

[vmair]

hy, it's like you talking with someone through poem, but here is thing for you, I'm also not good at writing I mean ur is great but something I hit the spot I mean I accidentally write great haha, so when ever any of ur frined say "Hey, Beren" did u copy it from Internet tell them "oh pal not exactly I steal my words from my imagiNATION" STILL APPRECIATE UR WORK

[Beren Ongur]

Thanks, I guess?
Not sure what you meant but nice to meet ya!
Liked the imagination