Death Metaphor Poems
These Death Metaphor poems are examples of Metaphor poems about Death. These are the best examples of Metaphor Death poems written by international poets.
Song of AprilForget the night’s storm
when you get out of bed.
Forget lightning and thunder
the way the house trembled
Forget your deepest fears
that the world would end,
Open your eyes.
Embrace...
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Categories:
april, death, life, metaphor,
Stuttering feelings
Today, I mapped out the tears of crying.
I tried to explain how the storms of tears inside me exhaust the efforts I’ve been growing, to...
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Categories:
metaphor, angst, anxiety, confusion, cry,
In the inferno of night
a whisper of loss
a phantom lace
a ghostly touch
fingers close, cold to taste
lingers laughter
cracked bone-dry air
the clock chimes midnight
it is backward here
in this...
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Categories:
metaphor, angst, art, death, deep,
A Boastful Mountain"Arrogance, a harmful disease,
...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, mountains, pride,
Plagued by Memories
Like an albatross enfolded around my silencing throat,
squeezing ever tighter,
asphyxiating on sins not of my own.
A scarlet letter has...
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Categories:
dark, death, extended metaphor,
HUMAN BREAKDOWN
Total freedom of expression
that incites death, suicide,
and destruction.
it is not freedom,...
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Categories:
allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,
Ashen-CradleA haunting past that trails behind,
An unnerving shadow that fails to blend.
The harrowing voices that curve the bend,
Sending your sanity off to the other end.
The...
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Categories:
anxiety, death, funeral, metaphor,
Life, Death, Pianoa man, aging yet still of play
for he, a piano plays he
and piano plays he well
but die does our aging man
for he, dead, yet playing...
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Categories:
metaphor, death, life, meaningful, philosophy,
free styling 3 in 1its
been
said
that
we can’t
be two things
all at once
yet we go
about life
living
and dying
at the same
same
time
until our
death comes to
be:
the
body and
its mind once
...
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Categories:
allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
ELEPHANT WOMAN { emo music inspired poem }
ELEPHANT WOMAN
She is Elephant Woman
you cannot hide from her
in houses of brick or glass
lined velvet curtains
whether...
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Categories:
metaphor, allegory, character, courage, dance,
A Mirror is Sand and Water As
One
grain drops.
Time begins,
or keeps going—
it’s hard to tell which.
Necks pinch into purpose.
Pressure makes the moment's weight—
its glass throat narrows in, knowing:
the longer it holds, the...
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Categories:
metaphor, death of a friend,
MAGDALENE: JEWEL OF JESUS MAGDALENE : JEWEL OF JESUS
She was the Chosen
a beckoned one
to ignite His speeches
smooth it with her own
illustrious strength
‘Courage against Odds’
marked her...
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metaphor, character, courage, death, emotions,
Reflections of the Past, Visions of the FutureFaded memories litter the walls, as anniversaries coincide together with zero regard for one another, the simple beginnings are barely visible and yet the complexity...
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Categories:
metaphor, adventure, beautiful, death, deep,
Death Knocked at My DoorDeath knocked at my door
last night but no one was home.
Pity, I might have invited him in or
ask “are you here on business?”
lest it was...
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Categories:
death, metaphor,
Lying to myselfI stumbled into a village of gold and brick,
The sound of life a chime to the homesick.
There are gardens, a butcher, furnaces,
Whose warmth seems to...
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Categories:
metaphor, 12th grade, allegory, extended