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Depression Metaphor Poems

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


Quintessentially Okay
Unheard voices cannot be spoken louder,
Unknown persons cannot be known quicker,
Unseen masks cannot be revealed sooner,
Unspoken words cannot produce a marker.

I died with a human...

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Categories: depression, emotions, extended metaphor,



Premium Member Paradise Is Falling
the lawns are strewn in paradise
roses stained, unsweetened
beauty is bleeding
can we lick these festering sores?

my days are alchemy
as I exhaust to turn a gold
and paradise...

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Categories: metaphor, anxiety, depression, life, mental

chordophone
Things aren't the same anymore
There's nothing to account for
I wish there was a painless way to end things
I wish you no longer had access to...

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© Shay DOA  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, 12th grade, conflict, depression,

Premium Member Many Faces Of A Nobody
yet his gait was limiting
to the harvest of shadows around him
breathing whatever air was there
at the time
and since his writing 
caught no-one's attention
and colourful birds...

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Categories: metaphor, anxiety, depression, mental health,

BEHIND THOSE WALLS
By Cherbo Geeplay


My wife whispered: somebody, go call Muna 
to come here. Let her tell her dad what she 
told me today. I asked: What’s...

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Categories: depression, gender, literature, metaphor,



Premium Member O Bipolar, Harass Me Nevermore
O Bipolar, harass me nevermore!
     Depart from me! For Easter Sunday's here,
     a comfort which transforms this...

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Categories: metaphor, christian, depression, easter, extended

The voyage of the lost in the void
As I embrace the void
The void swallows me wholly 
The sentient  sense of nothingness fills my heart
The void hates light as the light blinds...

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Categories: metaphor, dark, depression, imagination, love,

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

Failure
Have you ever died, still on your feet?

Did you lay your heart open?

Did it break at their feet?

Did they trample it down?

Did the hurt make...

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Categories: depression, extended metaphor, heartbroken,

Fighting Fire with Molotovs
Tight stretched skin, not unlike leather parchment
Adorned with scars and burns and such carvings
Among the colors, red ink's enrichment
Envelops a file cabinet's burnings

Advice from the...

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Categories: metaphor, abuse, depression, fire, introspection,

The Fish
Laughter trills through fire
Joy is spun on a lyre
Feathers were just growing in
And the bird watched its kin
Playing, scratching, screaming

I want to play!
You're on fire!
Thats...

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Categories: metaphor, anger, animal, bullying, depression,

Premium Member Sitting At A Table Not Eating
sitting at a table
not eating

sitting
at
a table

not

eating


...

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Categories: metaphor, anxiety, depression, life, mental

Cavern Calls
It's like I'm in a cave,
pitch black
with the echoes of each footstep reverberating across the walls,
sounding like a thousand footsteps,
all behind me
where am I,
am I...

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© Ash Miller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: depression, extended metaphor, fear,

Emotional-Trials
Rage, regret, pain and mercy
Here before you are the four emotions
Dare ignore them, face every notion
Rage will thunder down like hammers
Stripping the castle’s wall of...

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Categories: metaphor, dark, deep, depression, emotions,

Until The Death
In the silence of the night, I roam alone,
A solitary soul in a world unknown,
Wrapped in shadows, devoid of sound,
Seeking relief, yet nowhere found.

Isolation grips...

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Categories: depression, extended metaphor, fate,


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