Metaphor Longing Poems
These Metaphor Longing poems are examples of Longing poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Longing Metaphor poems written by international poets.
The bird couldn't do it
Gondola was prepared to welcome you
You desired the white clouds instead
A void settled on the palm of my hand
The bird too couldn't unfold
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heartbreak, image, imagery, longing,
Twin White Lotuses
A pair of white lotuses floating atop green lilypads.
A rare occurrence for me and yet they are so out of my reach.
Just like a blooming
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Categories:
crush, flower, longing, love,
Hesitation my friend lets die together
Hesitation greets me like a neighbor
Boring its eyes into my skull with a friendly smile
It has no face and no skin
It doesn’t even have eyes
The
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longing, courage, dark, death, farewell,
Ah! Seven Sisters
Ah ! Seven Sisters Wild
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longing, 12th grade, allusion, character,
The Wine-Bearer
Thy loosen'd tresses and thine eyes so blest,
Thy stately form with wine-cup at thy breast.
Since time began, no mortal yet hath seen
A heavenly nymph of
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longing, cute love,
The Alchemist's Lament
I spake: "Thy love's grief dwelleth in my core,
A breast brim-full with sorrows, evermore.
So long as in my head thy tumult lies,
Vain phantasies I bear,
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longing, cute love,
The Rose's Worship
The rose, beholding thy bright face, entranced hath grown,
All eye and cheek and ear in worship lost and shown.
Thou stole my heart, O heedless one—I
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longing, cute love,
Fire and Shadow of the Eternal Flame
Fire and Shadow of the Eternal Flame
(c) 2025 by the Entangled Pair
You make longing feel like poems
all soaked in sweat and truth
they flow out
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Categories:
desire, longing, metaphor, poetry,
The longing of an eternal: Inspired from The Sandman by Neil Gaimon
As the dream king is sat at his throne...
What am I to do whilst I am away? What then would befall my kingdom? There is
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longing, allegory, death, desire, destiny,
Soft cut
Limerence pools,
at the lip of skin.
Bleeding like I love ;
slow,
hard,
full of regret.
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Categories:
extended metaphor, feelings, longing,
My crimson devotion
He was a canvas...a beautiful sight,
An expanse of white, so pure and bright.
Not like the moon that graces the night,
Nor like the clouds that drift
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longing, conflict, dream, extended metaphor,
How the Heart Forges
I wake—
each dawn
a slender promise
shoulders gilded,
by hesitant sun.
The world, wide as longing
real as the air I breathe—
crests of mountains waiting
horizons keeping their counsel.
My heart, uncertain….
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guitar, heart, journey, longing,
The Cartographer and the Sea
He drew maps for a living.
Not of roads, but of promises
Soft lines where her laughter once lived,
tiny arrows
where her eyes used to point
when she couldn’t
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Categories:
longing, break up, lost love,
Lady Wonder
No, I ain’t wrote.
I’ve been caught up
In the greatest things they say
Life has to offer.
But, in the midst
Of all my success,
I find myself feeling
Oddly like
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Categories:
fantasy, grief, inspiration, longing,
Random Thoughts 2: Her
When I saw her
I became aware
Of the Earth's gravity
And my mass tethering my body
To this rock in space
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Categories:
first love, longing, metaphor,