Metaphor Loneliness Poems
These Metaphor Loneliness poems are examples of Loneliness poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Loneliness Metaphor poems written by international poets.
His Sunset Years in his sunset years he daily
traversed a mile to smile
waiting
...
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Categories:
loneliness, allusion, change, extended metaphor,
I am a riddleIf your misunderstood
maybe God just left your definition out.
In an attempt to clarify something .
no one would understand.
You are a riddle,
for what its worth,
what...
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Categories:
god, loneliness, metaphor,
Decrepit roots still clingThe palace of love we built ~
when our blood still flowed very warm in our veins,
is...
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Categories:
loneliness, lonely, metaphor, old,
Lingering leaves of gold frolic in the autumn wind
"Lingering leaves of gold
frolic in the autumn wind,"
Swept up by bygone breezes,
already collapsing
before they begin,
As disillusionment clouds an overtired soul—
Misplaced and irretrievable
To a society that...
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Categories:
angst, autumn, imagery, loneliness,
A child cries in a mirrorA child's joy was taken at gunpoint
in a long, dark tunnel on a winter night~
as clouds drifted, whispering subconscious fears,
stirred by music played by demons,
loosed...
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Categories:
loneliness, bird, child, child abuse,
The MirrorI opened my eyes when it was too late.
The river passed before my wide-open eyes.
I missed my childhood;
I was a prisoner in my mind.
Neither God...
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Categories:
loneliness, extended metaphor, growing up,
RUSTED MILESAn ominous trail
in their dark ashes—
each ellipsis
hid a treacherous bend.
I feel the camper’s
hollow rattle
between cracked ribs
that won’t quite mend.
Not their youth,
but mine—
still burning
in oil-smoke haze
too...
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Categories:
hurt, inspirational, loneliness, lost
Not for ailing love our beautiful balloon, about to burst,
an endless journey meets its sudden end,
forced to tango with our faults.
photographs...
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Categories:
break up, divorce, loneliness,
A dog is not freeA dog is not free
For he has only the Earth
He is chained you see
To this mass of no worth
A dog is not free
If he has...
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Categories:
allegory, analogy, loneliness, love,
I AMI am nobody, nothing more or less
than a pathetic line of symmetry.
In this paradox of existence,
a listless, feeble entity.
I am nothing more , and...
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Categories:
absence, journey, life, loneliness,
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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Categories:
loneliness, 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,
Residential between the kingdomsWandering the two in between the kingdoms
One side, quiet and bright, flagged the havens
The other, earthly world, noisy and light dim
Drifting up or...
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Categories:
loneliness, 1st grade, 3rd grade,
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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Categories:
extended metaphor, loneliness, lonely,
The Hollow SpaceI want to belong to a hollow space,
Where no one can catch my tiny lace.
I want to live on my own,
The space is nothing but...
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Categories:
depression, loneliness, longing, metaphor,