Loneliness Extended Metaphor Poems
These Loneliness Extended Metaphor poems are examples of Extended Metaphor poems about Loneliness. These are the best examples of Extended Metaphor Loneliness poems written by international poets.
HeartboundA cold, silver knife
rests on my shaking fingers.
I graze the blade across my life;
the slicing of it lingers.
I push the metal through my skin,
right to...
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extended metaphor, abuse, addiction, angst, devotion,
The Fleeting CompanionI want to write a single line, just one,
to hold within my memoir’s quiet space,
where sorrow and joy dissolve together,
becoming something weightless, something whole.
Perhaps it...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, identity, loneliness,
WallI lie down in my four-poster bed,
facing the pale yellow wall.
The same that I see above,
behind my headboard,
opposite me.
I drown...
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extended metaphor, loneliness, lonely,
EpiphanyReflecting its neighbourhood,
The lake water shone yellow.
Resembling a synchronisation of saturation
With the setting sun.
Seizing green colour of the grasses
The sun painted them gold.
Engrossed...
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Categories:
age, death, extended metaphor,
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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extended metaphor, beautiful, beauty, break up,
Axiomatic Sliverstatuesque thy porcelain - so bright/or pure
art thou hung as in some sacred place before
a trophy to the human form; desire paramour,
and thus, ‘twould sing...
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dark, extended metaphor, gothic,
Late DaughterPoem that is written with each gentle kiss
Music I play twitching the corners of my lips
Art brush paint four magnum opus till death
Final one I...
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extended metaphor, beautiful, child, death, depression,
AmmoniteI am here. Fossilised.
Remaining in state.
Ammonite.
Waiting for someone,
or something.
Waiting for you.
...
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devotion, environment, extended metaphor,
BecomingThe thing I look for,
That thing I become.
The perspective I carry,
On that road, I am buried.
The grave you fix for me,
In that place, I never return.
The...
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confusion, desire, extended metaphor,
beverageTwist off the cap
Lay it in your lap
I'm your favourite beverage
Take a sip of your leverage
I give catering a double meaning
Leave the flavours of my...
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12th grade, extended metaphor,
Ode to the Desert FlowerBe there a time
that flowed the aura 'neath
the breadth that holds the weight
of thee,
does beauty walks
atop your sliding granules
of trinket feet and painted nails rob...
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extended metaphor, allusion, analogy, appreciation, extended
phantasmagoric twirl of monachopsis in penumbrathe fins
of human
quake tremendously
spills grotesqueness while dumping
the ox cosmos in the middle of smoothly
mirrored
ocean Walls
where ones choice is fixed
at dawn stagnantly brimming
in obsolete enviable damp...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, feelings, heartbroken,
City LightsCity lights
What stories do you tell?
A lonely woman checking out after a long day of work
One last sigh before the light goes out
A married couple...
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extended metaphor, city, conflict, depression, extended
Beating a Dead HorseReins lifted in spite, a grimace
Blistering the urge to forgive the way
Black changed to gray right before your eyes,
Easing away the pain like, in fading,...
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extended metaphor, animal, death of a
All of a Sudden, Or Not At AllAll of a sudden, or not at all.
Love does not roll in with the tide.
Love is calculated, and random.
A steady roller coaster best strap in...
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Categories:
destiny, extended metaphor, feelings,