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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.


A child cries in a mirror
A child's joy was taken at gunpoint
in a long, dark tunnel on a winter night~
as clouds drifted, whispering subconscious fears,
stirred by music played by demons,
loosed...

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Categories: sad, bird, child, child abuse,



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: sad, 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: sad, break up, divorce, loneliness,

The Radiologist Will See You Now
"Where does it hurt?"
She asks, clipboard like a shield,
pen cocked like a firing pin.
"Here," I say,
pointing to the silence just beneath my ribcage.
Not the lungs....

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Categories: sad,



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: sad, anger, anxiety, fire, fish,

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: sad, dark, deep, depression, longing,

SILENT HOMES
SILENT HOMES

Silence 
            cloak of protection 
worn longing for
     ...

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Categories: sad, 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: sad, beach, conflict, longing, love

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: sad, 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: sad, 12th grade, angst, depression,

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: sad, anxiety, imagery, memory, mental

Wall
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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Categories: sad, extended metaphor, loneliness, lonely,

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

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Categories: sad, emotions, heartbreak, longing, loss,

Pictures on my wall
Pictures on my walls,
I make them feel so alive.
They don't laugh, they don't cry.
I don't smile, I don't frown.
My frames have no picture,
I'm wanted by...

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Categories: sad, absence, art, conflict, depression,


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