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Metaphor Break Up Poems

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


Premium Member Slow Burning Star
Our spark was a magenta-aqua gradient supernova.
A bright flash of love so nearly blinding it was eye-opening.
Our talks echo in the chambers of my inner...

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Categories: boyfriend, break up, lost



Letting Go
Like sand held in my hand,
I know I squeezed too tight,
Grain by grain you will drift away,
And with wind take flight.

I'll keep my hands wide...

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Categories: break up, courage, cry,

The Cartographer and the Sea
He drew maps for a living.
Not of roads, but of promises—
soft lines where her laughter once lived,
tiny arrows
where her eyes used to point
when she couldn’t...

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Categories: break up, lost love,

A beautiful lie
I wonder how it truly feels to be loved.

Is it like the minutes before the sun rises,
 when it begins to shine so bright,
 and...

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Categories: betrayal, break up, confusion,

Premium Member PREGNANT MEMORIES
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The love we shortly shared,
Was as the sunlight of life,
Fueling and energizing souls
With unimaginable pleasure:- 

We met, touched, and loved,
In that moment, we were...

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Categories: allegory, break up, extended



You Left Me Breathless
You left me breathless,
When you walked away,
You stole the air straight from my lungs,
When you broke my heart that day.
You left me breathless,
When your words...

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Categories: blue, break up, cry,

Not for ailing love
our beautiful balloon, about to burst,
  an endless journey meets its sudden end,
    forced to tango with our faults.
  photographs...

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Categories: break up, divorce, loneliness,

Premium Member Losing the glow
I wander where the afternoons
were so warm and golden
and wonder why 
pleasant woods and beautiful lakes desert me
leaving just trees and water

I wander where the...

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Categories: beauty, break up, depression,

Premium Member Blue Cheese and Old Pickles
blue cheese, old pickles
golden girls fickle 
like falling nickles 
drop, spin, switching sides 
heads and tails collide
craving connections 
tangy affections 
gourmet selections

these eyes fixed you...

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Categories: break up, metaphor, relationship,

Cerberus Sonnet
when mortal coil doth — dearest tomb keeper,
shroud the vibrant hue — of the dark and cold.
of life's brief candle — grant me one more...

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Categories: beautiful, beauty, break up,

Premium Member Why Walk When You Can Fly
Why walk when you can fly? I wondered then,
When she had left me standing on my own,
When I was left to mourn her yet again,
When...

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Categories: absence, betrayal, break up,

Premium Member Burnt
I enjoy the burn of the lighter's flame pushed by the wind.
I enjoyed the burn of the one who had made me smitten again.
I enjoyed...

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Categories: break up, first love,

Premium Member Hot Minute
For a hot minute like a cigarette we burned, faded.
You were like nicotine making me feel elated then jaded.
We had fallen in love again until...

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Categories: addiction, angst, break up,

Divine Magnetism
I am holding your eyes, feeling your words,
The waves gently overwhelm me, coaxing,
Pulling me under and luring me in.
Recede, leaving me freezing, shivering.

I am holding...

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Categories: break up, conflict, crush,

Break on through
Take a battering ram to the other side
The recoil will do me harm
A knife and spoon will suffice
Break the gates violently with arms
It will seal...

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Categories: break up, addiction, extended metaphor, god,


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