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Metaphor Dark Poems

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


Premium Member Poe’s Hourglass: A Melancholic Decree
Poe’s Hourglass: A Melancholic Decree

Once upon a midnight dreary,
As sands slip through life’s hourglass, eerie,
I pondered upon my penitent past,
And the regrets that will forever...

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Categories: dark, gothic, introspection, life,



The voyage of the lost in the void
As I embrace the void
The void swallows me wholly 
The sentient  sense of nothingness fills my heart
The void hates light as the light blinds...

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Categories: dark, depression, imagination, love,

Premium Member The Veil of Vanity

                   

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Categories: beauty, dark, desire, gothic,

Premium Member Black And White
Angels and brides do come in white.
All things beautiful, light and bright.
Demons and witches prefer black,
evil ways and means to attack.

White, pure, inspiring, eternal love,
gift...

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© MB Farookh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: color, dark, extended metaphor,

In the Webbed Silence
In the webbed corners of my brain 
There blooms a sinister flower 
Its petals dripping with venom 
 And thick roots entwined with despair 

Begins...

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Categories: conflict, dark, emotions, how



Hanging on the rope of lies
I’m hanging on a rope of lies hanging on for dear life.

I don’t know what got me today but I gotta let go this rope...

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Categories: dark, anger, anti bullying, anxiety,

Premium Member I AM THE LIGHT IN THE DARK-
so shun- the darkness blackened
 surrounded by the darkness 
yet a speck a spark energy 
exposure a grain of salt 
I am the light in...

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Categories: dark, addiction, caregiving, engagement, metaphor,

The simplicity of yearning
The simplicity of yearning. It burns softly, like a hand grazing over a candle. A mouth full of sweet nothings to be spilled onto the...

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Categories: angst, change, conflict, dark,

Tempest of the Mind
Deep in my shrewd mind, a storm rages on 
Dark clouds gather as the wind howls till dawn
A tempest of thoughts, I cannot control
A battle...

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Categories: dark, conflict, how i feel,

Cavern Calls
It's like I'm in a cave,
pitch black
with the echoes of each footstep reverberating across the walls,
sounding like a thousand footsteps,
all behind me
where am I,
am I...

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© Ash Miller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dark, depression, extended metaphor, fear,

Emotional-Trials
Rage, regret, pain and mercy
Here before you are the four emotions
Dare ignore them, face every notion
Rage will thunder down like hammers
Stripping the castle’s wall of...

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Categories: dark, deep, depression, emotions,

HER
In the midst of a wet night,
discovered myself upon a viaduct,
straggled or vagrant, uncertain.
Not petrified by the dark, rumbling sky,
amazed to find the place familiar;
I...

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© Tapan Nath  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beauty, dark, death, extended

Premium Member Shackles
“I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.”  Dean Koontz

I know there is something bright above...

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Categories: dark, imagery, introspection, metaphor,

Twilight Throne

I'm the lion-hearted fragrance of basil stars, 
breathing blames like the Goddess of Hurricanes, 
but, was this twilight throne, ever mine to tame?
I'll forever bleed...

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Categories: angst, betrayal, dark, deep,

Soul of Seaside Sepulchre

When the 
seaside sepulchre 
of a kingdom, 
without its queen, 
is smeared with 
screams of lighting, 
I wish to crackle
these slivers 
of silver shakle, 
and...

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Categories: angst, betrayal, dark, deep,


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