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.
He Shall Be Called
A Name
“His name shall be called…”
A great statement of His glory.
Yet immediately we reason,
Let’s compare it to your...
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Categories:
metaphor, anxiety, bible, encouraging, extended
Soft cutLimerence pools,
at the lip of skin.
Bleeding like I love ;
slow,
hard,
full of regret....
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Categories:
extended metaphor, feelings, longing,
Event HorizonI’ve been here before
at this event horizon
Is it shadow? Nothingness?
Heat?
A death
a fire of refinement
The pressure
madness?
The spaghettification
of my timeline
rage, doubt, clout
drawn into this pull
A cycle
I’ve been...
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Categories:
metaphor, anxiety, death, identity, introspection,
A Sea of PusThey call it a profession.
Selling your skin is not the same
as selling your skill.
They call it a bad habit.
Nose picking is not the same
as digging...
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Categories:
metaphor, allegory, evil,
Dweller of our heart
“The essence in us is the same as the essence of the sun.” — Unseeking Seeker
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At the beginning—
before Satan lost his place in heaven,
Man had...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, metaphor, nature,
No mountains, Nor CoastI don't desire mountains,
Nor do I desire coasts
But I hope when I knock your door, Death,
You would be a gracious host.
When I come to...
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Categories:
metaphor, absence, conflict, death, emotions,
Phoenix-Souled
Women —
we are the fault lines of the world.
Every shudder,
every quake,
every heartbreak —
we hold it.
We turn pain into knowing.
We carry weight like it’s woven into...
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Categories:
extended metaphor,
Knight of WandsBy Michael Parker
October nineteenth. two-hundred-ninety-third day of the year. It’s Mercurii, and the waning Hunter moon sits by Orion’s stretched thigh. Hydra lifts her head...
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Categories:
12th grade, depression, metaphor,
No Multiplicitycontest : multiplicity of self
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multiplicity
self infinite and fractal
god within found soul
without thought
...
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Categories:
metaphor, allusion, change, character, creation,
What becomes of a world?The trees ache with a pain only those who have witnessed true horror
The swinging rope moping for it had been turned to a killer...
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Categories:
discrimination, family, funeral, metaphor,
I am the mirrorI am the mirror of truth
I am the reflection of accountability
That will show the shards of what is, not what's not
I will reflect their own...
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Categories:
discrimination, evil, metaphor, mirror,
BLACK DEFORESTATION
BLACK DEFORESTATION
Like innocent trees rooted and growing
In a black social forest, we’re being chopped
down by roving lumberjack officers of the law,
as if we were arboreal-like...
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Categories:
metaphor, allegory, analogy, black african
Barracudaedged teeth grate live bones
ransacked by its spineless bite
red bubbles at sea
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Categories:
animal, betrayal, image, metaphor,
BiteThrobbing, concave marks
adorn my skin—records of
your hunger, sated only by
the meat of
my body.
Though the pain is sweet—craved,
fulfilling—and my blood rushes
to provide you with drink,
my head—detached,
neglected—wanders.
Tell...
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Categories:
metaphor, allegory, body, confusion, dark,
Unbroken WrenchMy friend comes through and talks to me,
With their stuck nails being all I can see.
Instead of listening further,
I get my wrench and try to...
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Categories:
metaphor, 10th grade, analogy, extended