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Metaphor Anxiety Poems

These Metaphor Anxiety poems are examples of Anxiety poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Anxiety Metaphor poems written by international poets.


Indian Wasteland
It is the world of Shiva and Shaitan
It is the world of Krishna and Kant

Devi on Nandi holding Demon and Son
Devotees, Deities, Ash, Claps and...

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Categories: absence, anxiety, black love,



Infested
What stings like wasps in hives,
Of trying minds' regret,
Invasive blips, flash frozen pictures,
Recalls, counterfeit,
Serrated icy sickled thoughts,
In glaciated snow,
Dread the warmth, the trickled stream,
Of thawing...

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Categories: angst, anxiety, insect, metaphor,

Stuttering feelings
Today, I mapped out the tears of crying.
I tried to explain how the storms of tears inside me exhaust the efforts I’ve been growing, to...

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Categories: angst, anxiety, confusion, cry,

Breathe Spilled Like Bone
Ariana shrugged facing Josh’s mocking clap
the stringy harmonica rang acrobatically on the streetlights. 
He handed her a firebomb, 
eyes sharp as vinegar. 
They ran across...

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Categories: abortion, anxiety, cinderella, extended

Ashen-Cradle
A haunting past that trails behind,
An unnerving shadow that fails to blend.
The harrowing voices that curve the bend,
Sending your sanity off to the other end.

The...

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Categories: anxiety, death, funeral, metaphor,



My Incubus
Pounding at the resonant head 
of my chest—he of hunger 
latches his fangs just beneath my jaw—
not to sever silence, but to pummel poison.
Tissue parts...

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Categories: anxiety, change, character, conflict,

Hurricane
If all I know is the hurricane, 
where is it's eye? 
As if it likes to play hide and seek - 
make a guess -
who...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, how i

Ocean, Knocking
As you open that door…
you don’t know that there is 
an ocean behind it 


If you had to choose between feeling nothing and feeling everything,...

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Categories: anxiety, beautiful, character, creation,

Premium Member When Pets and Their Companions Start to Resemble Each Other
I held the leash like it was sacred,
I warned that she spooked easy.
He knelt down slowly, extended his hand
like a priest offering sacrament
to a god...

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Categories: allusion, anxiety, conflict, extended

Hide and Seek
This is different

Eerie

The winds have changed.
The colors fade into
a lifeless, chalky form,
and all life disappears
in a uniform fashion,
as I stand at its edge,
too scared to...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, emotions, hope,

Premium Member 40 Days
40 Days
by Robert Joseph Martines


Sin is inside.
And inside… isn’t what it used to be.

I used to keep a fig leaf at the ready.
But one day,...

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Categories: anxiety, dance, dark, deep,

New Revelation
Spillage on my picture,
Dark black creature,
Now you can see the
White lines, purple, either.
Running up my arms like a suture, churning
Piercing gaze through the dark, hurting,
In...

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Categories: angst, anxiety, depression, extended

This Is Not A Love Poem
{“The day I loved you was my homicide. 
The day I loved you I was petrified, the day I loved you I was humiliated of...

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Categories: absence, abuse, addiction, anxiety,

Premium Member WINE WASTE-
If apple ate a pear?
And digested it, would excrementbe wine?

2/25/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025©
...

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Categories: adventure, analogy, angst, anxiety,

Premium Member THE WAKE WITHOUT VIGIL
Time longer than rope
Chokes hearts dangling
In the reality of struggle:-

Grieving mothers and widows
Veil their grief in sagging bosoms
As they wail in excruciating silence:-

Fragments of men,...

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Categories: allegory, anxiety, death, extended


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