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Metaphor Betrayal Poems

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


The Sight of Your Lies
Lord knows the Devil
I encountered. Hidden
hypocrisy swayed naivety I
exuded. Smiling with grace but
crossing betrayal behind your
back while holding my hand with
the other. Delicate melodies of...

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Categories: analogy, appreciation, betrayal, bible,



Scarlet Paradise
In the storm of my mind,
You were my quiet yearning.
Nothing to hold onto, nothing to chase,
Nobody can adjust to this phase.

Do not claim the jargon...

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Categories: betrayal, depression, extended metaphor,

Mannequin of Metaphors


When the
   malevolent moon
drapes
   black current vines
around my neck, 
etching
    the blood of betrayals
in my white-whirling wings ~...

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Categories: angst, betrayal, dark, deep,

My Man, His it
A mother to you, a son to me, sucking the life out of my bosom and weep in disgust when it's saggy.
Men love a tempting...

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Categories: abuse, anger, betrayal, dark,

Premium Member Live like a Jackal, Die like a dog
Hear the flames crackle
Fall on your sword  
Live like a Jackal  
Die like a dog  

The lion is weary
Hyenas dart and bite
Their...

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© Gem Stone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abuse, anger, betrayal, dog,



Premium Member Prisoner of Poetry
When my muse ruled 
my conscience's compass,
waterfalls of rhyming rivers
revealed unspoken secrets -
long forgotten in my heart.
Exposing vulnerable verses
from vaults where vines
had wrapped my tongue
into...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: analogy, angst, betrayal,

Some things shatter, some things bloom
Crushed.
Dust chokes the air
And encircles the vicinity

Burnt.
Charred and battered.
A blackened stump,
The remains of what once was alive.

Hacked to pieces.
Still, lifeless—
Left to die

Will you still bloom?
Will...

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Categories: abuse, appreciation, betrayal, dark,

A legacy forgotten
Consider my grave your resting place too,
An empathetic soul who rests here.
Worry not poet, it haunts no more,
Covered with maggots, I've rotted here for a...

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© Tapan Nath  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: betrayal, corruption, extended metaphor,

Premium Member Blue Cheese and Old Pickles
I fought the good fight, yet still I lost
and you stood in brackish silence
with bitter reward in briny eyes
proffering spiny frowns
shoulders crumbled with aging ache
and...

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Categories: angst, betrayal, emotions, feelings,

My Existence Itself Is My Threat - Part 2
"What is my role?" I asked.
"You are part of the crew," he said, not the captain as I was told.
"But I know maps! I read...

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© Pranali Vg  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anger, betrayal, conflict, extended

My Existence Itself Is My Threat - Part 1
I dream of far shores where my name was meant to be carved.
I aspire to climb mountains where my flag was to be raised.
I imagine...

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© Pranali Vg  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anger, betrayal, child abuse,

Silent Storms
A weir holds back the river 
against the flow of the morning tide 
I wonder how many thoughts,
unspoken, lie behind its barrier-
ponderings of love, turmoil,...

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Categories: betrayal, day, imagery, metaphor, morning,

Premium Member Betrayal
Alas!
Love's dose reduced
venom produced 
hissing mattresses, grass beds of dirty vipers......

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Categories: betrayal, love hurts, metaphor,

Premium Member Sockdologizing Old Man Trap
You sockdologizing old man-trap long decayed
where claws curl tight in dust and brittle bone
your lies are hyenas dancing in the flame
their jaws a rattle tearing...

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Categories: betrayal, corruption, imagery, metaphor,

Premium Member Dumping Ground
Bringing your troubles; like I was your dumping ground
Walked away with my life without as much as an amen
No words spoken, until my happiness drowned...

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Categories: angst, betrayal, corruption, extended


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