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Sad Metaphor Poems

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


Signed, From The Floor
I cannot write what I do not feel.
I cannot feel what I do not know.
To write without passion
is to kneel at the nameless grave and...

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Categories: metaphor, emotions, how i feel,



The Other Woman
The other woman lives inside of you;
I can see her silhouette in your eyes.
Her tendons twist through yours, interwoven,
down through your fingertips, I see her...

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Categories: desire, feelings, metaphor, sad

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,

All For Her
His muscles they burn
The mind takes a turn
His cap is so wet
Soaked from all the sweat

Crouched beside the pyre
Burned by searing fire
He’d done as he’s...

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Categories: metaphor, anger, anxiety, fire, fish,

Cycling O'er and O'er
The kind ones, the mean ones,
the big ones, the lean ones-
Some try, some don't,
and some cry, but some don't.
Actions and reactions,
what are they but events,
cycling...

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Categories: metaphor, 8th grade, corruption, dark,



Premium Member The Bell Tolls

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horizon
dark
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t
fills
me like
still sorrow
as birds return
to nests from sad
sky bringing on their
wings the distant music
of the drifting clouds from
the departing day sinking slow
in the horizon I...

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Categories: analogy, metaphor,

Premium Member Searching
I’ve tasted a morsel of darkness,
In the frantic fleeing from sight.
And I’ve searched in every crevice -
For the thing that let me fight.

- But I...

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Categories: metaphor, dark, deep, depression, longing,

SILENT HOMES
SILENT HOMES

Silence 
            cloak of protection 
worn longing for
     ...

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Categories: metaphor, abuse, character, dark, emotions,

Premium Member Echoes Of The Silent Shore
How can I sever wolf-waves from the selfish sea?
I ache to cut the rogue from the relentless flow
his crest —swelled in high rise on testosterone...

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Categories: metaphor, beach, conflict, longing, love

Premium Member TO KISSING POETIC LIMBO GOODBYE
Sitting here

in igneous space

wrestling with naked thoughts

finds me face to face

with sad beauty:

the navel of time

is emblematic

that the poetic seed

must first fertilize the mind

that its...

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Categories: birth, creation, eulogy, metaphor,

June 26
Violently thrashing and jerking and pulling
It implores me to act
Desperate to stay alive in it's final hour
Reminding me of our pact

It pleads, it begs, It...

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Categories: heartbreak, metaphor, moving on,

red canvas
Trigger Warning: This poem deals with themes of self-harm. Please read with care.
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my skin felt like a blank canvas 
every time they faded.
i felt empty
my...

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Categories: metaphor, 12th grade, angst, depression,

Premium Member Dumping Ground
Bringing your troubles; like I was your dumping ground
Walked away with my life without as much as an amen
No words spoken, until my happiness drowned...

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Categories: metaphor, angst, betrayal, corruption, extended

END TIMES : ONE
END TIMES : ONE 

[Poet’s Note : This poem arose out of a play on quote in Bible by Christ : “I will open my...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, body, change, deep,

Premium Member Vanishing Ink
Memories flutter like Post-It notes,   
   with scribbles faint and worn.
Reminders fade in the winds they’ve made,
   my pages...

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Categories: metaphor, anxiety, imagery, memory, mental


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