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Metaphor Sorrow Poems

These Metaphor Sorrow poems are examples of Sorrow poems about Metaphor. These are the best examples of Sorrow Metaphor 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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Categories: sorrow, death, extended metaphor, life,



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: sorrow, desire, feelings, longing, love,

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: sorrow, change, deep, how i

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

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Categories: emotions, metaphor, sorrow,

To love
I see you everyday
From the halls of the school
In the real world
To the deep recesses of my mind

I see you in the warm embrace of...

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Categories: sorrow, extended metaphor, hurt, love,



Premium Member Silent Soliloquies
Stagnated sin stared straight out to sea
Seeking a scape subdued of such scintillation 
Stars she said should not share the same air

Superstitions shaped in slumber...

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Categories: sorrow, introspection, metaphor, philosophy, sea,

Description of An Alter Ego
A stupid question that lingers in the back of my head
Pools in my mouth, on the tip of my tongue as if I were to...

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Categories: sorrow, angst, bird, emotions, extended

Masquerade
A colourful array of falsehoods
Intricately designed disguises 
Fools, fortunes, phantoms
Masks clinging on their faces
 Lives hidden away by an illusory veils
Veils that cannot be removed
Cannot...

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Categories: sorrow, extended metaphor, freedom, imagery,

Melancholic
I'm sunbird of the sketched skyline, 
Soaring across soft sheaths 
Of ebony moonflowers, 
Inhaling gossamer death, tonight....

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Categories: sorrow, death, heartbroken, loss, metaphor,

The Monster and the Butterfly
One blissful spring morning
As the sweet sun showered the flowers below in it’s glittering presence
A small butterfly drifted from flower to flower
It surprised the monster...

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Categories: sorrow, animal, butterfly, extended metaphor,

Love's Last Heartbeat
In the moorlands of desires, 
I've forever sung choruses of
fertile faith, amidst the flock 
of bleeding birds, sprinkling
heartbeats on lush olive herbs, 
In the dream...

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Categories: sorrow, angst, metaphor, sad love,

Little Clown
Here she is 
Her smile as if painted on
Shining, eye catching
Her shell cracking
Breaking, snapping
Slowly revealing the true little clown
Oh, my silly little fool
No amount of...

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Categories: sorrow, angst, cry, dark, metaphor,

Dawning Poetic Dreams
I'm an enlightened 
equinox, strolling in
faded universe, 
dreaming poetry in
susurrus serenades 
of rustling 
ruby-leaves which
whisper cool 
beamish hues
to my autumnal-
quartz heart, 
when the nucleus 
of...

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Categories: sorrow, autumn, betrayal, dream, metaphor,

On the Crest of a Wave
Sometimes,
sailing in ebony blades
of saturnine seas 
brings forth a forsaken froth
of scarred reveries, 
when musk-ochre 
tints of sunshine cease 
to slice through solemn 
scarlet skies...

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Categories: sorrow, angst, dark, fantasy, meaningful,

It Will End In Tears
My friend, don’t struggle so
Not much longer to go
No more working for the all-mighty buck
No more lusting after the…
Ahhh your dirty mind 
Will be the...

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Categories: sorrow, allusion, anger, angst, art,


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