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.
MirrorLying 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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Categories:
anxiety, extended metaphor, grief,
Without MirrorsHe 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 SongHis 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,
TearsThe 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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Categories:
emotions, grief, metaphor, nature,
The many funerals of a black girlHow 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 ValleyO' 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,
TouchThe fire crackles—I take the heat,
but my hands pass through my frozen skin.
...
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Categories:
grief, 10th grade, dark, deep,
Frost’s biteWhen 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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Categories:
grief, imagery, metaphor, storm,
Death's wingsThe 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,
HurricaneI 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,
TEARS OF JOYTears 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,
CawI 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,
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:
grief, age, death, extended metaphor,
The StrayI 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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Categories:
grief, addiction, change, depression, emotions,
My heart is a graveyardMy 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,