What is a family metaphor poem?

Answer 1

Well you should pick a topic like maybe relating your family to an expired firecracker or dishes or an outfit. Maybe even the ingredients to a smoothie.

This poem has every person in the family somewhat related to the topic.

Fifth of July My family is an expired firecracker

set off by the blowtorch of divorce. We lay

scattered in many directions.

My father is the wick, badly burnt

but still glowing softly.

My mother is the blackened paper fluttering down,

blowing this way and that, unsure where to land.

My sister is the fallen, colorful parachute,

lying in a tangled knot, unable to see the beauty she

holds.

My brother is the fresh, untouched powder that

was protected from the flame. And I,

I am the singed, outside papers, curled away

from everything, silently cursing

the blowtorch.