Metaphor Death Poems
These Metaphor Death poems are examples of Death poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Death Metaphor poems written by international poets.
Beneath the branchesYou'll find me under the stars
Beneath the branches of a willow tree
Longing for something
That'll never be seen
2 parts slave
1 part free
Forgotten by lovers
Forgotten by...
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Categories:
death, extended metaphor, life,
Valentine's Day 2015Valentine’s Day 2015
An odd way to spend it,
At Hospice watching Nana sleep,
This room becoming our world
On a rotating basis.
Right now there’s me
And Nana and IT
The...
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Categories:
caregiving, death, family, metaphor,
Of Passing CloudOf Passing Cloud
- Roger White
Unaware of the world below, a wispy cloud suspended between Heaven and Earth
drifts westward against an azure sky…
…blithely
As if coaxed...
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Categories:
death, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Death by ClothingI worry that my coat will murder me.
Hanging on Banister’s Edge it’s a man lurking, dark.
I’ve seen rows of killers shadowed and waiting,
hidden in the...
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Categories:
death, analogy,
A Hunger Unfedfrom your first born, when you grab a dusting of talc, crushed with late night feeds, stirring in bouncing and stories on a knee,
adding a...
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Categories:
death, analogy,
Serenity's ResurrectionsSeems it's a story
Of a girl always near-death
Through every attempt,
The loveliest metaphor,
A lie even I saw through....
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Categories:
character, death, hero, magic,
Time
I am Time,
I do not know
Where I’ve come from
Nor do I know whither I am going
I only know that I started in the past
And am...
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Categories:
birth, death, extended metaphor,
The Stillness of SilenceFor few days between the shaking and shattering of my consciousness,
The soft arms of Silence
Wrap around my aching torso
And pretend to soothe...
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Categories:
death, anger, bible, body, change,
decomposeI'm not that person I was once atall
But I know it's difficult to accept
A liar, you promised no harm could befall
Please tell...
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Categories:
death, 12th grade, betrayal, confusion,
A Tree Bears FruitStarting quite fragile, wet, bright and agile,
it met the first test of it’s life.
Death promptly flew down, pecked at the ground,
a beak that glints...
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Categories:
death, bird, children, fruit, growth,
Until The DeathIn the silence of the night, I roam alone,
A solitary soul in a world unknown,
Wrapped in shadows, devoid of sound,
Seeking relief, yet nowhere found.
Isolation grips...
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Categories:
death, depression, extended metaphor, fate,
HERIn 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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Categories:
beauty, dark, death, extended
A Shipwreck She SalvagedShe came aboard my sinking ship
a death blow to the bow,
attempts to bail and keep afloat
this mariners tattered sails.
Plot a new course and navigate
in storms...
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Categories:
change, death, extended metaphor,
The Meal
In the shallow
light of the moon,
the shadow dives
into the Hydrangeas
seeking a camouflage
of dark green
the howl of the
wolf pierces the
silence of the sleepy night
like the cry...
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Categories:
cat, confusion, death, extended
ClementineAmidst silent morrow's plea,
I plant myself in the ruins,
of a clementine tree,
fusing to the roots,
under the carriage,
of life and death,
her barks brittle,
sweet breath,
meeting mine,
in...
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Categories:
beauty, death, introspection, metaphor,