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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.


The Shape of Absence
And I remember the rain before it ever started—
the smell of asphalt humming like old vinyl static under my ribs.
You were talking about birds, maybe,
or...

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© Evelyn Hew  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor,



Shadows of the Valley
O' moment 
of mist-glazed melancholia ~
I'm shrinking in paper-cut smokes
of shrivelling sunsets, 
amidst the seizures of silence, there I surf ~ 
in swollen skulls of...

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Categories: metaphor, death, deep, emotions, grief,

NEW WAVE ASCENDS
 NEW WAVE ASCENDS

Workers waul at leaders sold
who rush to airports cold 
in hospitals wan women wallow 
tattered children nothing to swallow 
ideals trickling through...

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Categories: metaphor, 12th grade, change, earth,

Immodest Proposal
It might be an absurd idea
But we need to move on from here
Stalled in the darkness
With no moral compass
To guide us into the clear
 
It...

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Categories: metaphor, america, angst, conflict, death,

We Live in Denial
In blackest halls, a phosphorescent light
Shines forth from darkest depths, a honey glow.
Enraged, ignited, I now blinding bright,
A magma burning, pyroclastic flow,

Torching golden beams to...

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Categories: metaphor, analogy, anxiety, depression, extended



Tethys, Time
Ramparts of the castle?
Slicked well with rain or blood?
Ask the master's vassal.
His veins have caused a flood...

Well. Is that so? Don't you know?
Steady as we...

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Categories: confidence, extended metaphor,

Song of April
Forget 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,

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,

Premium Member A Boastful Mountain
"Arrogance, a harmful disease,
                     ...

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Categories: extended metaphor, mountains, pride,

Premium Member 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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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
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-Cradle
A 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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© Smiti Basu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anxiety, death, funeral, metaphor,

Premium Member Life, Death, Piano
a 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,

Premium Member free styling 3 in 1
its 
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 or 
lined velvet curtains
whether...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, character, courage, dance,


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