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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.


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 cut
Limerence pools,
at the lip of skin.
Bleeding like I love ;
slow,
hard,
full of regret....

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© Mollly Jo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: extended metaphor, feelings, longing,

Premium Member Event Horizon
I’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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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, anxiety, death, identity, introspection,

A Sea of Pus
They 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
••••••••••••••••••••••••
At the beginning—
before Satan lost his place in heaven,
Man had...

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Categories: extended metaphor, metaphor, nature,



No mountains, Nor Coast
I 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 Wands
By 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 Multiplicity
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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 mirror
I 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,

Premium Member 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

Premium Member Barracuda
edged teeth grate live bones
ransacked by its spineless bite
red bubbles at sea

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Categories: animal, betrayal, image, metaphor,

Bite
Throbbing, 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 Wrench
My 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


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