Sad Metaphor Poems

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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Today, I mapped out the tears of crying.
I tried to explain how the storms of tears inside me exhaust the efforts I’ve been growing, to...

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horizon
dark
the
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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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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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SILENT HOMES

Silence 
            cloak of protection 
worn longing for
     ...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I lie down in my four-poster bed, 
facing the pale yellow wall. 

The same that I see above, 
behind my headboard, 
opposite me. 

I drown...

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Sparks dwindled too soon,
Leaving behind dark ashes,
And silence that burns....

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light that lights all lights;
bright, radiant smile.
it's the greatest gift 
one gives a sad world 
it lifts low spirits.

glows like moonlight, 
not to mention,
it's contagious;
one...

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