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Metaphor Grief Poems

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


Mirror
Lying on the grass carpet,
I met myself,
A kid from the past oblivion.
Sought my assistance, 
Questioned the path I travelled.

We both talked an hour, 
Despite our...

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© Tapan Nath  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anxiety, extended metaphor, grief,



Without Mirrors
He forgot
how his jaw
used to stretch
in loud laughter.

No mirrors
to watch his days—
just windows,
and distant eyes.

His beard trimmed
by finger’s feel,
a chunk missed
Here and there.

He looked well
in...

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Categories: for him, grief, loss,

Muted Song
His lips parted,
but the notes clung,
threaded in silence
by invisible keys.

The song stayed,
in a nest of aches,
where wishes fluttered
without hope of flight.

He hummed,
but no one heard
the...

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Categories: grief, how i feel,

Tears
The clouds have spread across the sky like a fluffy blanket.
Gloomy and sad, the clouds are filled with heavy despair, slowing them down.
One drop... two...

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© Adarsh K S  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: emotions, grief, metaphor, nature,

The many funerals of a black girl
How many funerals of ones self can someone have before there is nothing left
Don't answer 
It's rhetorical anyway

Funeral number 1
A piece of her hair
A symbol...

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Categories: grief, beauty, color, daughter, discrimination,



Shadows of the Valley
O' moment 
of mist-glazed melancholia ~
I'm shrinking in paper-cut smokes
of shrivelling sunsets, 
amidst the seizures of silence, there I surf ~ 
in swollen skulls of...

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Categories: death, deep, emotions, grief,

Touch
The fire crackles—I take the heat,
but my hands pass through my frozen skin.
...

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© Ananya Dey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grief, 10th grade, dark, deep,

Frost’s bite
When the first wave came and pulled a soul away, I continued on searching for shells in its wake. 

When the winds revved up and...

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© Abbie King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grief, imagery, metaphor, storm,

Death's wings
The only time I was ever happy
Was when we,
Grandma and I sang songs of old times
It made me feel so safe and yes,
I believed nothing...

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Categories: grief, 10th grade, 9th grade,

Hurricane
I start my day with the rising sun,
Got a lot of work before the day is done,
Back breaking and mind racing again,
I may stumble every...

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Categories: angst, crazy, depression, grief,

Premium Member TEARS OF JOY
Tears of Joy
God cried today; His tears fertilized 
       Mother Earth’s womb; 
The fragrance of nature saturated the air.

Tomorrow...

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Categories: absence, celebration, death, grief,

Caw
I hear your call; I call you back
On raven wings we soar as one –
We fly midnight between the suns
The gift of madness on our...

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Categories: flying, grief, metaphor, raven,

Epiphany
Reflecting 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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© Tapan Nath  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grief, age, death, extended metaphor,

The Stray
I was born in the sunshine of your house.
I remember the soft fold of your smile,
As you read me bedtime stories,
Sprouting in my memory,
The fall...

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© Cat Bevins  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: grief, addiction, change, depression, emotions,

My heart is a graveyard
My heart is a graveyard,
Where i buried the people
Who never returned, leaving me
Haunted by their broken promises. 

The chambers carry the hidden scars,
And the ashes...

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Categories: anxiety, grief, growing up,


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