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Metaphor Loneliness Poems

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


A dog is not free
A dog is not free
For he has only the Earth
He is chained you see
To this mass of no worth

A dog is not free
If he has...

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Categories: allegory, analogy, loneliness, love,



I AM
I am nobody, nothing more or less 
than a pathetic line of symmetry.
In this paradox of existence,
a listless, feeble entity.
I am nothing more , and...

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Categories: absence, journey, life, loneliness,

Heartbound
A cold, silver knife
rests on my shaking fingers.
I graze the blade across my life;
the slicing of it lingers.
I push the metal through my skin,
right to...

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Categories: loneliness, abuse, addiction, angst, devotion,

The Fleeting Companion
I want to write a single line, just one,
to hold within my memoir’s quiet space,
where sorrow and joy dissolve together,
becoming something weightless, something whole.

Perhaps it...

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Categories: extended metaphor, identity, loneliness,

Residential between the kingdoms
Wandering  the two in between the kingdoms 
One side, quiet and bright, flagged the havens
The other, earthly world, noisy and light dim
Drifting up or...

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Categories: loneliness, 1st grade, 3rd grade,



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: extended metaphor, loneliness, lonely,

The Hollow Space
I want to belong to a hollow space,
Where no one can catch my tiny lace.
I want to live on my own,
The space is nothing but...

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Categories: depression, loneliness, longing, metaphor,

Epiphany
Reflecting its neighbourhood,
The lake water shone yellow.
Resembling a synchronisation of saturation 
With the setting sun.
Seizing green colour of the grasses 
The sun painted them gold.

Engrossed...

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© Tapan Nath  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loneliness, age, death, extended metaphor,

Premium Member Destiny, the final milestone
My sizzling heart failing around the clock
No light colliding with the dark to spark
But essence dying passively through the dim
Dream's wall burning by the fire...

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Categories: destiny, feelings, imagination, loneliness,

King of Purgatory
The all-seeing raven, cursed by fate,
To witness all, yet never relate.
It sees no light, nor darkest shade,
Its wings spread wide, yet flight delayed.
The Raven Lord,...

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Categories: allegory, dark, deep, loneliness,

Cerberus Sonnet
when mortal coil doth — dearest tomb keeper,
shroud the vibrant hue — of the dark and cold.
of life's brief candle — grant me one more...

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Categories: loneliness, beautiful, beauty, break up,

The Lost Traveler
She took the road less traveled by, because she thought it was the right thing to do
She thought that maybe, she would be sought out...

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© Ro M.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: art, dark, loneliness, metaphor,

Axiomatic Sliver
statuesque thy porcelain - so bright/or pure
art thou hung as in some sacred place before
a trophy to the human form; desire paramour,
and thus, ‘twould sing...

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Categories: loneliness, dark, extended metaphor, gothic,

Late Daughter
Poem that is written with each gentle kiss

Music I play twitching the corners of my lips

Art brush paint four magnum opus till death

Final one I...

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Categories: loneliness, beautiful, child, death, depression,

Premium Member Ammonite
I am here. Fossilised.
Remaining in state. 
Ammonite.
Waiting for someone,
or something.

Waiting for you.
...

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Categories: loneliness, devotion, environment, extended metaphor,


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