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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.


BAR CHRONICLES
Blues and Memories fleeting.
(part 1 of 10)

I wrote suicide  note on sweating whiskey glass,
Pain pleading on moments pass.
Pet names on cords of base guitar...

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Categories: metaphor, addiction, america, anxiety, depression,



Premium Member The Paradiddle of Being - Book Two: The Becoming
VI.

We are all metric modulations
of our former selves—changing time signatures
mid-measure, learning to count
in odd meters when life refuses
to conform to 4/4 expectations
finding beauty in 7/8...

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Categories: extended metaphor, fate, identity,

Muted Song
His lips parted,
but the notes clung,
threaded in silence
by invisible keys.

The song stayed,
in a nest of aches,
where wishes fluttered
without hope of flight.

He hummed,
but no one heard
the...

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Categories: metaphor, grief, how i feel,

THE CHOICE
 
 THE  CHOICE

here I arrived, breath away
boldly stepped out of a 
Blue Train, not waiting for 
fellow passengers with 
tedious conversations about 
Hemingway,...

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Categories: metaphor, allusion, change, character, creation,

Premium Member IN LIFE'S CULTIVATION
A rose and its thorns,
Mirroring the life survived:
Pain and God’s healing:-
...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, analogy, encouraging, imagery,



What lies behind the key
You asked me a question without saying a word.  Could I ever love again?
I couldn't find the answer.  should I ever want to?...

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Categories: metaphor, addiction, betrayal, death, depression,

PAINTED IN SMOKE
[Verse 1]
It’s a whisper dressed in armor
A wildfire in disguise
It hides the truth in velvet
While it’s staring through her eyes

I speak in stars and shadows
She...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, angst, deep, feelings, heartbreak,

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,


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