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Metaphor Sad Poems

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


When Silence Speaks
"When Silence Speaks" poetry contest.
Sponsor: Craig Cornish 
2nd Place. 
Date Submitted: 07/05/2024


the air conditioner soothing my heated skin
fire brick curtains with their red dyed orange...

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Categories: sad, change, metaphor, mirror, nostalgia,



An Overthinker's Torment
Thinking and thinking and thinking.
I want to stop going over the memories,
The looping record of agonising nothings.
That's the problem, you see?
It's not a problem to...

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© Euan McFee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sad, anxiety, confusion, extended metaphor,

Premium Member A Pale Image of A New Life
Teresa of Ávila
Dreamt the passion of God.

A physical fire 
Burned an image of his power.

An image I envisioned was one so dull 
Full of pain
A...

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Categories: sad, angst, anxiety, longing, metaphor,

Premium Member Many Faces Of A Nobody
yet his gait was limiting
to the harvest of shadows around him
breathing whatever air was there
at the time
and since his writing 
caught no-one's attention
and colourful birds...

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Categories: sad, anxiety, depression, mental health,

Mirror of Hearts
"One day, . . . I saw the sunset forty-four times! . . . You know—one loves the sunset, when one is so sad."
 Quote...

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Categories: hope, metaphor, nature, sad,



Premium Member Overboard
She is
but a passing shadow
flitting across the moonlit sea

Wandering waves
roaming their ripples
in search of her next
ship to board

Steered by starlight
she journeys to fresh horizons
constellations
mapped many...

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Categories: sad, angst, blue, irony, metaphor,

Tempest of the Mind
Deep in my shrewd mind, a storm rages on 
Dark clouds gather as the wind howls till dawn
A tempest of thoughts, I cannot control
A battle...

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Categories: sad, conflict, how i feel,

Premium Member Sitting At A Table Not Eating
sitting at a table
not eating

sitting
at
a table

not

eating


...

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Categories: sad, anxiety, depression, life, mental

Cashing in
They're cashing in on our misery 
By making us go in circles
While they keep promising to deliver
On nothing cause nothing they've said holds water 

They're...

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Categories: sad, abuse, extended metaphor, leadership,

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: sad, change, deep, how i

I'm Just A Brick

I’m a brick and oh so lonely,
sitting here a hundred years.
Dry as dirt…oh if only
I could shed a single tear.
Here’s my story, forty stories,
up way...

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Categories: sad, absence, angst, city, loneliness,

Story about the moon, sun and a star
the sun was burning with love for the moon, 
and the moon shone so brightly just for the sun. 
they would ever see each other...

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Categories: sad, angst, goodbye, heartbreak, metaphor,

The end of a hustler
Russell was slim and did like to hustle, but on his arm he packed some serious muscle

Most of the time he liked to gamble, but...

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Categories: sad, bullying, cool, corruption, integrity,

Premium Member All At Sea
all at sea, my restive heart
waters are calm, but in calmness
   moored 
the bounty of a lover's soliloquy
raging torrents bequeath a joy 
you...

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Categories: sad, deep, heart, introspection, metaphor,

Writings on the Wall
The other day my friend asked me,
“What is life? Is it the days we live or the dreams we dream?”
Don’t know how I did that,...

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Categories: sad, change, extended metaphor, future,


Book: Shattered Sighs