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Angst Metaphor Poems

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

Cards

im playing cards with pandora
and she’s bleeding her hand
its so painfully obvious
i see her grand plan,
because calamities hit a set
and she’s feeling alright
but theres one...

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Categories: metaphor, addiction, anxiety, hope, mental

A Pale Image of A New Life

Teresa of Ávila
Dreamt the passion of God.

A physical fire 
Burned an image of his power.

An image I envisioned was one so dull 
Full of pain
A...

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Categories: angst, anxiety, longing, metaphor,

Poe’s Hourglass: A Melancholic Decree

Poe’s Hourglass: A Melancholic Decree

Once upon a midnight dreary,
As sands slip through life’s hourglass, eerie,
I pondered upon my penitent past,
And the regrets that will forever...

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Categories: metaphor, dark, gothic, introspection, life,

Mirror of Hearts

"One day, . . . I saw the sunset forty-four times! . . . You know—one loves the sunset, when one is so sad."
 Quote...

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Categories: hope, metaphor, nature, sad,

In the Webbed Silence

In the webbed corners of my brain 
There blooms a sinister flower 
Its petals dripping with venom 
 And thick roots entwined with despair 

Begins...

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Categories: metaphor, conflict, dark, emotions, how

Overboard

She is
but a passing shadow
flitting across the moonlit sea

Wandering waves
roaming their ripples
in search of her next
ship to board

Steered by starlight
she journeys to fresh horizons
constellations
mapped many...

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Categories: angst, blue, irony, metaphor,

Divine Disintervention

I don’t trust the angels 
They must have stolen my sun 
I have worked so hard , done so much
I am so tired I am...

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Categories: angst, endurance, extended metaphor,

The simplicity of yearning

The simplicity of yearning. It burns softly, like a hand grazing over a candle. A mouth full of sweet nothings to be spilled onto the...

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Categories: metaphor, angst, change, conflict, dark,

Tempest of the Mind

Deep in my shrewd mind, a storm rages on 
Dark clouds gather as the wind howls till dawn
A tempest of thoughts, I cannot control
A battle...

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Categories: metaphor, conflict, how i feel,

It is not Easy Being Yellow

“ It ain’t easy being green.”
Kermit The Frog

It ain’t Easy Being Yellow

I push through concrete 
You can’t keep a good dandelion down
Don’t confuse me with...

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Categories: metaphor, angst, art, courage, encouraging,

FLAVOURS OF HELL

Sin of the old I have commited
I wonder if I have been punished,
this sure doesn't feel like heaven
I must breathe the ashes that burn in...

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Categories: metaphor, angst, encouraging, evil, peace,

Twilight Throne


I'm the lion-hearted fragrance of basil stars, 
breathing blames like the Goddess of Hurricanes, 
but, was this twilight throne, ever mine to tame?
I'll forever bleed...

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Categories: metaphor, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,

Paper Kingdom

Yesterday, 
when there was clarity,
I arose resembling 
the flames of sunrise.
Like an articulate artist, 
entranced in nature,
I painted fluorescent hues 
upon her butterfly wings.
Together we...

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Categories: angst, metaphor, pain,

Nom de Plume

Soft and feathery and illusive
Each word a woven world of fantasy
An artistic lair for the lunacy of emotion

Musical, distant and serene
Aesthetic shelters like seashells
Cast by...

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Categories: french, metaphor, poets, sea,

swirling seven-stars

Life is never a planned ride
      on a magical carpet,
that awakens jasmine
dreams lost in the brisk air.
We weave our own...

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Categories: emotions, metaphor,