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Sorrow Metaphor Poems

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


Premium Member Beneath the branches
You'll find me under the stars
Beneath the branches of a willow tree
Longing for something 
That'll never be seen
2 parts slave
1 part free
Forgotten by lovers
Forgotten by...

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© Roger Harp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, extended metaphor, life,



Another Chance To Dance
I have seen that house a hundred times,
The one upon which the old vine climbs.
So poignant and so melancholy,
That place had once been the omphali.
Now...

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Categories: metaphor, forgiveness, hope, loss, missing

Premium Member Poe’s Hourglass: A Melancholic Decree
Poe’s Hourglass: A Melancholic Decree

Once upon a midnight dreary,
As sands slip through life’s hourglass, eerie,
I pondered upon my penitent past,
And the regrets that will forever...

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Categories: metaphor, dark, gothic, introspection, life,

Premium Member Vagabond
Poetry is like medication, in each release of expression,
there is healing - Poet.

In the realms of lost childhoods,
where demons prey upon the defenceless -
no one...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: analogy, metaphor, poetry,

There's Always A Tomorrow
We often remember there is always a tomorrow
Through resonance of beautiful songs of sorrow,
For then we know our struggles which make us grow
Are only emotional,...

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Categories: growth, life, metaphor, music,



Premium Member Angelic
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. There...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: analogy, emotions, metaphor,

Premium Member Cling On
Those wide mahogany eyes, 
I cannot help but cling to, 
like goosegrass clings on,
too dear, may I hang out here?
just for a little while longer,
you...

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Categories: metaphor, desire, feelings, longing, love,

Hello I am a poem
My words intertwined with the deepest emotions
Dreams, goals and sometimes sorrow deeper than an ocean,
My words are like waves that wash over each reader in...

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© Sarah Cope  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, sea, storm, sunset, visionary,

Premium Member Seraphic Scene Extant

The long journey 
of the slithering stream 
on the languid lap 
of pensive plateau,
meandering montage
in ebony melancholy
of forlorn forest,  
flows on contorted contours 
of...

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Categories: analogy, life, metaphor,

Time is a--
Time is a river that flows endlessly
Carrying memories and dreams along the way
Sometimes it is calm and gentle, sometimes it is rough and stormy
But time...

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Categories: metaphor, change, deep, how i

Inscription upon the Horizon
I heard the sound of the sea 
echoing like a distant hymn.
It encompassed my soul
like a heavenly embrace.
It set me free like a lucid breeze.
It...

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Categories: beautiful, color, metaphor, sea,

Premium Member Behind the Fall
How lovely
is the waterfall,
with ever-vibrant spray,
unleashing torrents of power,
rushing with resilience,
falling with grace
to soft froth

Steady is the pour
that feeds the tranquil pool,
enduring and ensuring
a peaceful...

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Categories: earth, imagery, metaphor, nature,

Seraphic Embers

I've always 
wandered in 
venus' orbs, 
searching for
the star-seed 
of my spirit that
has forsaken
it spiritual 
sanguinary and 
caged every 
fluorescent flicker 
in a sculptured
sanctuary of...

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Categories: metaphor, deep, destiny, emotions, life,

Season of Discontent
Seeds of emotion
yields no crop, now blighted fields,
harvest of a death!...

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Categories: emotions, metaphor, sorrow,

Premium Member Man of Mars
Such is a sorrow sculpted of sunstone,
Immortalised with studious refrain,
Tragedy, still, in beautiful atone,
Exuding light from a languish of pain.

Young Venus, I be, suspended in...

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Categories: imagery, introspection, love, metaphor,


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