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Metaphor Depression Poems

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


Hurricane
If all I know is the hurricane, 
where is it's eye? 
As if it likes to play hide and seek - 
make a guess -
who...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, how i



Hide and Seek
This is different

Eerie

The winds have changed.
The colors fade into
a lifeless, chalky form,
and all life disappears
in a uniform fashion,
as I stand at its edge,
too scared to...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, emotions, hope,

Reflections of the Past, Visions of the Future
Faded memories litter the walls, as anniversaries coincide together with zero regard for one another, the simple beginnings are barely visible and yet the complexity...

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Categories: depression, adventure, beautiful, death, deep,

Premium Member Losing the glow
I wander where the afternoons
were so warm and golden
and wonder why 
pleasant woods and beautiful lakes desert me
leaving just trees and water

I wander where the...

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Categories: beauty, break up, depression,

Premium Member Finish My Poem - The Butterfly
As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew  
anointed with a gentle rain amidst sun showers she appears as if on...

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Categories: butterfly, change, depression, environment,



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: dark, deep, depression, longing,

Rime fires Edge Inspired by Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The albatross, a frozen, spectral wing,
Hangs heavy 'cross the sky, no solace it can bring.
A ship of bones, on seas of liquid lead,
Where cursed winds...

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Categories: adventure, dark, death, depression,

Clemency
There was a girl named Clemency
who walked with me to college every morning.
Neither shy nor outspoken.
Her face was always concealed by a mask.

I have never...

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Categories: abuse, brother, depression, endurance,

Forsaken
My spirit,
Incinerated. 
Its ashes 
Descend back into
That dark crater:
That inky opaque abyss,
Where the slightest din
Is swallowed, 
Where that one fragment of light is asphyxiated,
Held down,...

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Categories: bereavement, dark, depression, heartbroken,

caged
As the years pass me by,
I've remained stuck in a cage.
Built up by my fears, 
made strong by my rage.
I sometimes get to wander free...

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Categories: absence, abuse, addiction, depression,

New Revelation
Spillage on my picture,
Dark black creature,
Now you can see the
White lines, purple, either.
Running up my arms like a suture, churning
Piercing gaze through the dark, hurting,
In...

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Categories: angst, anxiety, depression, extended

An Autobiography
I am a lone tree,
An ancient sentinel rooted deep
Whispering songs of the past on the breeze.
I am a stick of dynamite, a fuse burning low
An...

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Categories: depression, absence, angst, change, death,

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: 12th grade, angst, depression,

Premium Member Sand Promises
(Sand Promises)

Sand promises drown in tides.
Washed away leaving tearing eyes,
broken dreams in evening sighs.
Sadness one attempts to hide.

Sand promises are like lies.
Born when human dreams...

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Categories: betrayal, character, courage, depression,

My load burdens me
Trying to keep up but the load keeps me sinking, everyday a new struggle arise, my strength fail to keep up, the demand so high,...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, feelings, inspirational,


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