Metaphor Silence Poems
These Metaphor Silence poems are examples of Silence poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Silence Metaphor poems written by international poets.
Where Intention Once Stood
My thoughts walk barefoot on gravel roads—aching, slow, and scattershot.
My mind drifts like dusk in worn linen—frayed, faded, and folding in on itself.
My mind, grown...
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silence, extended metaphor, introspection, memory,
A Piece of My Mind on Peace of MindThey asked for a piece of my mind—
so I offered silence, wrapped in gold.
No rage, no clamor, no thunderclap,
just breath unbroken when the world turned...
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silence, anxiety, imagery, imagination, inspiration,
What the Silence HidShe smiled in rooms that cracked her spine,
where beauty bruised and grace meant lie.
They called her calm, not knowing this–
each breath she took was clenched...
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silence, imagery, inspirational, meaningful, metaphor,
The First To DrownThe Earth isn't dying—no, she's screaming, a sound you've stopped hearing.
she cried when girls walked miles for rusted, tainted water,
when ancient forests become forgotten, ash–filled...
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silence, imagery, inspirational, meaningful, metaphor,
When the music diedWhen the music died
It turned into police sirens
When the music died
It was like playing musical statues
Without the music
And forever stuck in...
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silence, discrimination, metaphor, music, prejudice,
The Weight of WordsThey told her,
"Words are just air".
But air can bruise,
and silence can tear.
She learned to bleed in quiet tones,
Each syllable a crack in bones....
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Categories:
silence, emotions, growth, inspiration, metaphor,
Black without a maskBlack without a mask
What would it look like to be black without a mask?
Would it look like freedom?
Or would they laugh?
At our attempt to be...
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silence, emotions, freedom, metaphor, prejudice,
Temple of My BecomingYou did not rush the ruins of me.
You entered gently,
Like a prayer whispered
In the hollows of a broken chapel.
Your touch-
Not just desire,
But devotion.
You traced every...
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Categories:
silence, appreciation, devotion, imagery, lost
A Shooting StarA SHOOTING STAR
In quietness of night,
a fired star waving goodbye;
turning off its light:-...
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Categories:
silence, allegory, extended metaphor, goodbye,
Silent Ringing EarsSilent Ringing Ears
In the silent night,
ears ring loudly to themselves:
nothing else is heard...
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Categories:
silence, confusion, crazy, metaphor, night,
The many funerals of a black girlHow many funerals of ones self can someone have before there is nothing left
Don't answer
It's rhetorical anyway
Funeral number 1
A piece of her hair
A symbol...
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Categories:
silence, beauty, color, daughter, discrimination,
I Ate the Silence
I was a happy child
Carefree, talentless, happy
Jumping around and singing tunes
Tunes of bygone joy and unbridled dream
But they scorned me
They...
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Categories:
silence, abuse, allegory, extended metaphor,
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:
silence, break up, divorce, loneliness,
Interview with a Shooting StarWhen the night is filled with questions,
and the sky is a jeweled blanket,
I sit on the deck of my water room,
listening to the waves flirt...
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Categories:
fantasy, silence,
Winter's Silence
skeleton trees sway,
...
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Categories:
silence, beautiful, imagery, metaphor, poetry,