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Pain Metaphor Poems

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


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



Another's of One's Own
Reflected grief spat back at me to bear 
Another load, the double of my own 
To take and carry, this unholy pair 
Then tripled, multiplied,...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, extended metaphor,

WHEELCHAIR BOUND
 WHEELCHAIR BOUND

Dots appeared and disappeared 
a single sunray flashed onto 
wheelspokes, canvas seat 
 comfortably frayed 
bought secondhand
her unexercised legs flabby 
window bars rusted,...

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Categories: metaphor, body, care, change, character,

Flower
flowers that have flourished in winter 
made beautiful in the frost,
from the same chilling breeze they have grown lost.
one flower stands out in its sunny...

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Categories: metaphor, deep, flower, lost, love

Premium Member POLITICAL DIAGNOSIS
POLITICAL DIAGNOSIS

Political gout,
has sprung wintering pain; it's
time for healing spring:-...

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Categories: allegory, america, corruption, metaphor,



Fireworks and gunfire
People say that you can’t tell the difference 
of a scream of joy 
from a scream of pain.

A scream of pain is a scream of...

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© Ciara Daly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: extended metaphor, firework, joy,

BURN
Wrench the pages from my worn hands as my voice shatters
Leave it aflame as the embers rise, my soul now scattered
Within the bounds of sanity,...

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© Reya Suri  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allegory, anger, extended metaphor,

Premium Member Stellar Resilience
In the vast expanse of life's dark space,
Be patient, tough, like stars that grace
The endless night with steady light—
Guiding you through the hardest fight.

This pain,...

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Categories: metaphor, 12th grade, 9th grade,

I AM
[for contest : I AM
Sponsor : Unseeking Seeker
Date submitted: 21/4/25 ]
Placed 2nd in Contest


    I AM

I am that I am
SourceLight within my...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, character, deep, emotions,

Fertile Field

The dark earth breathes a silent potent lung,
Where buried dreams in patient stillness hung.
A canvas vast, unfurrowed, waiting deep,
For life's first tremor, secrets it will...

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Categories: 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,

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,

MAGDALENE: JEWEL OF JESUS
  MAGDALENE : JEWEL OF JESUS 


She was the Chosen
a beckoned one
to ignite His speeches 
smooth it with her own
illustrious strength
‘Courage against Odds’
marked her...

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Categories: metaphor, character, courage, death, emotions,

Hear the way I sound
Hear the way I sound,
a harmonious hum, 
a rhythm that beats with every dream, 
every fear, and every whim. 

My voice, a canvas of emotions,
...

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Categories: imagery, meaningful, metaphor, poems,

The Stage

Where pain is hidden
Where tears are suppressed
Where one can escape misery and suffering 
Where a mythical character comes to life 
Born 
Creates a life of...

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Categories: extended metaphor, life, truth,


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