Figurative

'I may wear a yellow dress
to laugh at the mad waves
dying beneath my feet,'
^The beginning here definitely reflects your title, your words hold much symbolic meaning rather than literal expression of thought. 'Yellow dress' being happiness and 'mad waves dying beneath my feet' being the sadness striking back at you. I think maybe you should just say 'dying waves beneath my feet' however. In a way these lines bring hope though because it seems like you're willing to put up a fight and win over the sadness in your life.

'the world can represent
an immature clover leaf.'
^To me I interpret this as the clover leaf not staying true to it's true symbolic meaning of luck. Perhaps how you don't need a clover leaf to mend things, you feel you can take it upon yourself to rid yourself of the bad. Stopping the flow of life gave a depressing feel though. I felt like there was faith into digging yourself out of a whole, but stopping the flow of life gives me a different impression that you'd rather just not deal with anything, maybe it's a way of saying you'd rather just forget everything, not literally die. Maybe this is just another hidden symbol.. hence our title 'Figurative'.

'Though I'd yearn to free
myself from the blond beams-'
^Now after reading this part I feel like you jump between sadness and happiness so much. It's not exactly clear to me as to which you wish to feel more of.

This poem made me think quite a bit. Lately I have felt like I've really had to dig deep for the meanings in your poems. That's not a bad thing, but hopefully I'm not too far off with my interpretations. I must say though, this is one of your better pieces out of your more recent writes. 'It's Conversable' also rates pretty high up on my list. Well done though, although the meaning may be right in front of my eyes, the poem made me reflect quite a bit.

Wow that was gravity-free :)

"I stop up the flow of life"

I would eliminate "up" here, making it say "I stop the flow of life". Adding "up" disrupts the flow of the line for me. I would also take the stanza break out between the first and second stanza, and make it one big stanza.

I LOVE how the second stanza and the last stanza have repetition AND rhyme. I thought it was brilliant. I don't know if you intended the rhyme there.. but I thought it was awesome.

I would do some sort of comma or other punctuation after "blond beams".

"then chase clouds with bare
skin to feel the bites of air,"

I love that. I love the idea of chasing clouds, and air biting your bare skin. It reminded me of a kid playing naked in a sprinkler on a hot summer day :) Hahaha

I love your closing stanza. I think it wrapped the thought up well and really pulled everything together! :) Great job, Nana! :)