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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.


Premium Member Nothing Seens to Last
nothing seems to last
flowers weep faded petals
a faint scent lingers
once blooming in bright color
my poems have lost their appeal

emotions wither
wilted words whirl in the wind
bereft...

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Categories: loneliness, metaphor, muse, poetry,



A beautiful lie
I wonder how it truly feels to be loved.

Is it like the minutes before the sun rises,
 when it begins to shine so bright,
 and...

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© Issey Ali  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, betrayal, break up, confusion,

His Sunset Years
   in his sunset years he daily 
traversed a mile to smile
waiting  
         ...

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Categories: allusion, change, extended metaphor,

I am a riddle
If your misunderstood 
maybe God just left your definition out.
In an attempt to clarify something .
no one would understand.
You are a riddle,
for what its worth,
what...

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Categories: god, loneliness, metaphor,

Decrepit roots still cling
The palace of love we built ~  
when our blood still flowed very warm in our veins,  
     is...

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Categories: loneliness, lonely, metaphor, old,



Premium Member Lingering leaves of gold frolic in the autumn wind
"Lingering leaves of gold
frolic in the autumn wind,"
Swept up by bygone breezes,
already collapsing
before they begin,
As disillusionment clouds an overtired soul—

Misplaced and irretrievable
To a society that...

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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, angst, autumn, imagery, loneliness,

A child cries in a mirror
A child's joy was taken at gunpoint
in a long, dark tunnel on a winter night~
as clouds drifted, whispering subconscious fears,
stirred by music played by demons,
loosed...

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Categories: metaphor, bird, child, child abuse,

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,


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