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Loneliness Metaphor Poems

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


The Mirror
I opened my eyes when it was too late.
The river passed before my wide-open eyes.
I missed my childhood;
I was a prisoner in my mind.
Neither God...

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Categories: extended metaphor, growing up,



RUSTED MILES
An ominous trail
in their dark ashes—
each ellipsis
hid a treacherous bend.
I feel the camper’s
hollow rattle
between cracked ribs
that won’t quite mend.

Not their youth,
but mine—
still burning
in oil-smoke haze
too...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, hurt, inspirational, loneliness, lost

Not for ailing love
our beautiful balloon, about to burst,
  an endless journey meets its sudden end,
    forced to tango with our faults.
  photographs...

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Categories: metaphor, break up, divorce, loneliness,

A dog is not free
A dog is not free
For he has only the Earth
He is chained you see
To this mass of no worth

A dog is not free
If he has...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, analogy, loneliness, love,

Premium Member Losing the glow
I wander where the afternoons
were so warm and golden
and wonder why 
pleasant woods and beautiful lakes desert me
leaving just trees and water

I wander where the...

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Categories: metaphor, beauty, break up, depression,



I AM
I am nobody, nothing more or less 
than a pathetic line of symmetry.
In this paradox of existence,
a listless, feeble entity.
I am nothing more , and...

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Categories: metaphor, absence, journey, life, loneliness,

Heartbound
A cold, silver knife
rests on my shaking fingers.
I graze the blade across my life;
the slicing of it lingers.
I push the metal through my skin,
right to...

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Categories: metaphor, abuse, addiction, angst, devotion,

The Fleeting Companion
I want to write a single line, just one,
to hold within my memoir’s quiet space,
where sorrow and joy dissolve together,
becoming something weightless, something whole.

Perhaps it...

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Categories: extended metaphor, identity, loneliness,

Residential between the kingdoms
Wandering  the two in between the kingdoms 
One side, quiet and bright, flagged the havens
The other, earthly world, noisy and light dim
Drifting up or...

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Categories: metaphor, 1st grade, 3rd grade,

Magnolia Moments
When I whirl as wind, 
unwavering ~
 surfing on 
watercolor wings 
of simmering seasons, 
 which flicker
 and fly through me, 
filtering my faults
with a...

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Categories: metaphor, deep, devotion, emotions, heart,

Wall
I lie down in my four-poster bed, 
facing the pale yellow wall. 

The same that I see above, 
behind my headboard, 
opposite me. 

I drown...

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Categories: extended metaphor, loneliness, lonely,

The Hollow Space
I want to belong to a hollow space,
Where no one can catch my tiny lace.
I want to live on my own,
The space is nothing but...

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Categories: depression, loneliness, longing, metaphor,

Epiphany
Reflecting its neighbourhood,
The lake water shone yellow.
Resembling a synchronisation of saturation 
With the setting sun.
Seizing green colour of the grasses 
The sun painted them gold.

Engrossed...

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© Tapan Nath  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: age, death, extended metaphor,

Premium Member Destiny, the final milestone
My sizzling heart failing around the clock
No light colliding with the dark to spark
But essence dying passively through the dim
Dream's wall burning by the fire...

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Categories: metaphor, destiny, feelings, imagination, loneliness,

King of Purgatory
The all-seeing raven, cursed by fate,
To witness all, yet never relate.
It sees no light, nor darkest shade,
Its wings spread wide, yet flight delayed.
The Raven Lord,...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, dark, deep, loneliness,


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