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Death Metaphor Poems

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


In the inferno of night
a whisper of loss 
a phantom lace
a ghostly touch

fingers close, cold to taste
lingers laughter 
cracked bone-dry air
the clock chimes midnight 

it is backward here
in this...

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Categories: metaphor, angst, art, death, deep,



Premium Member A Boastful Mountain
"Arrogance, a harmful disease,
                     ...

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Categories: extended metaphor, mountains, pride,

Premium Member Plagued by Memories

Like an albatross enfolded around my silencing throat,  
squeezing ever tighter,  
asphyxiating on sins not of my own.  
A scarlet letter has...

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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dark, death, extended metaphor,

HUMAN BREAKDOWN


     Total freedom of expression
  that incites death, suicide,
     and destruction.
  it is not freedom,...

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Categories: allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,

Ashen-Cradle
A haunting past that trails behind,
An unnerving shadow that fails to blend.
The harrowing voices that curve the bend,
Sending your sanity off to the other end.

The...

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© Smiti Basu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anxiety, death, funeral, metaphor,



Premium Member Life, Death, Piano
a man, aging yet still of play
for he, a piano plays he
and piano plays he well

but die does our aging man
for he, dead, yet playing...

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Categories: metaphor, death, life, meaningful, philosophy,

Premium Member free styling 3 in 1
its 
been
said
that
we can’t
be two things
all at once
yet we go
about life
living 
and dying
at the same
same 
time
until our
death comes to
be:
the
body and
its mind once 
   ...

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Categories: allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,

ELEPHANT WOMAN
  { emo music inspired poem }

ELEPHANT WOMAN 

She is Elephant Woman 
you cannot hide from her
in houses of brick or glass
lined velvet curtains
whether...

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Categories: metaphor, allegory, character, courage, dance,

Premium Member A Mirror is Sand and Water As
One
grain drops.
Time begins,
or keeps going—
it’s hard to tell which.
Necks pinch into purpose.
Pressure makes the moment's weight—
its glass throat narrows in, knowing:
the longer it holds, the...

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Categories: metaphor, death of a friend,

MAGDALENE: JEWEL OF JESUS
  MAGDALENE : JEWEL OF JESUS 


She was the Chosen
a beckoned one
to ignite His speeches 
smooth it with her own
illustrious strength
‘Courage against Odds’
marked her...

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Categories: metaphor, character, courage, death, emotions,

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: metaphor, adventure, beautiful, death, deep,

Premium Member Death Knocked at My Door
Death knocked at my door
last night but no one was home.
Pity, I might have invited him in or
ask “are you here on business?”
lest it was...

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Categories: death, metaphor,

Lying to myself
I stumbled into a village of gold and brick,
The sound of life a chime to the homesick.
There are gardens, a butcher, furnaces,
Whose warmth seems to...

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© Shane Zhao  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: metaphor, 12th grade, allegory, extended

Premium Member Dance with Delusions
Dancing with delusions, sparks of hellfire
Course through my lugubrious quill pen.
Distorted words igniting fear,
Anxiety fills crevices,
Encircling, silencing,
Asphyxiating.
Walls closing in,
Compressing.
Hope fades,
Doom.
Dread
Runs cold.
Veins poisoned,
Sanity slips
Unmercifully.
The angels are...

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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, gothic, imagery, metaphor,

Premium Member Felix Culpa
We quarreled to bitter, burning degrees 
(you)loving me 
as a tender trespasser 
     a chew toy 
    ...

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Categories: metaphor, allusion, blessing, freedom, hyperbole,


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