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.
OF FOOD AND WARRING: A TANKA QUINTETOF FOOD AND WARRING
(A TANKA QUIENTET)
Juxtaposed bombs fall…
Food’s down, starvation rising…
Death…collateral…
Thus, war’s new reaping of death:
Food uprooted and destroyed:-
Food’s an enemy,
Seeking to eat, deadly:
Starvation killing:-
Thus,...
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Categories:
corruption, death, extended metaphor,
Event HorizonI’ve been here before
at this event horizon
Is it shadow? Nothingness?
Heat?
A death
a fire of refinement
The pressure
madness?
The spaghettification
of my timeline
rage, doubt, clout
drawn into this pull
A cycle
I’ve been...
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Categories:
metaphor, anxiety, death, identity, introspection,
THE SEA AND I
First of all, I must say that I love the sea so much
in the past, I dared to repeat words from the poet Areias,
"Sea, my...
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Categories:
allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,
Improvising ExistenceImprov is an unscripted comedy form.
Starting with an idea for a sketch,
actors interact with each other,
making up things as they go.
As one person responds to...
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Categories:
metaphor, death, humor, joy, life,
No mountains, Nor CoastI don't desire mountains,
Nor do I desire coasts
But I hope when I knock your door, Death,
You would be a gracious host.
When I come to...
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Categories:
metaphor, absence, conflict, death, emotions,
Khia's CrusadeSaracen princess,
Blackened corridors bathed in honey hold you in high esteem as you dance in flickers, eyes raising the death toll every time you...
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Categories:
desire, family, metaphor, military,
Midway PsalmThe Ferris wheel, a spoked and sputtering crown,
Pinned back the velvet dark. We paid our fee
In crumpled bills, bought passage to the town
Where gravity forgot...
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Categories:
meaningful, metaphor, peace, poetry,
What becomes of a world?The trees ache with a pain only those who have witnessed true horror
The swinging rope moping for it had been turned to a killer...
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Categories:
discrimination, family, funeral, metaphor,
Midnight ChrrysallsThis clinging dark
not death, not bloom
stilled in air.
Soft walls resist what dares to come
The skin forgets its former hue,
Will light find purchase there?
A...
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Categories:
imagery, inspirational, meaningful, metaphor,
We Were Never 'I'Within this sanctum
of breath and bone—
ten trillion anchorites
mimic their devotions.
Bacteria threading
blood’s vermilion rivers
braiding holy water
into the cathedral
of now.
Their alchemy transmutes
starlight
into the wine of existence—
decanted
from Orion’s...
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Categories:
creation, identity, metaphor, philosophy,
The Bell Tower That Leaned InI. The Pastor’s Hand
At dawn’s brittle cusp—
he climbs, each step
a nail in time’s coffin
breath ragged
...
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Categories:
metaphor, allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery,
Morning glory
Morning glory _
From our car
Along the hilly path
Numerous they're
With the attention
of doing math
In their voice
A guitar
Colorful headgear
Off and on
mutual whispers
The Tea Pluckers
Mingled with the green
Humming...
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Categories:
emotions, image, metaphor, symbolism,
IN THE SEA OF LIFE AND THE SANDS OF TIME
IN THE SEA OF LIFE AND THE SANDS OF TIME
As the sun continues to rise,
As the moon continues to wane and wax,
Here I am, continuing...
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Categories:
metaphor, allegory, i am, inspirational,
Falling Leaves, Fading ChaptersI watched a leaf release its breath,
A golden sigh upon the air.
It tumbled softly into death,
A quiet dance without despair.
The wind, a gentle funeral song,
Caressed...
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Categories:
deep, extended metaphor, meaningful,
Eternograf 1Time does not flow within me,
but rather,
it is only a frozen smoke,
a mist trapped between my thoughts
and the forgetfulness that always lurks.
I feel its shadow
treading...
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Categories:
metaphor, art, birth, blessing, culture,