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Allusion Poems | Examples of Allusion Poetry

Allusion Poems - Examples of all types of allusion poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for allusion.
Premium Member The Pressed Rose
(a collaboration with Dilly Dally, great fun, thank you) Lost as the night wraps its ebony shades round red lips like the petals on roses unfurled; in the mist, the soft crimson of beckoning smiles leave me hopeless to...Read the rest...
Categories: allusion, dream,
Form: Blank verse



Passion
Your passion ignites your soul The flames burning tirelessly But your fire isn't immortal Deprived and starved of the things you crave....Read the rest...
Categories: allusion, cry, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
A letter to my muse
To my muse; This poem you surely must peruse. Many of these lines, I will lose- But look around and into my clues As I look deep into your soul, Bits of love fill that hole. For a...Read the rest...
Categories: allusion, cute, first love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chapter 160-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Property improvement Projects and Prosperity
Date: June 2051 8:15 am-- Damian scheduled to have A few improvements and modifications. Family in The house were alert and Present. Molly and Holly were in the Children's room bathing all 6 of them The five...Read the rest...
Categories: allusion, best friend, birth,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member HEART BEAT
Soars beating is my heart as it flex it's muscle so in part it's flat Like an Eagle abreast breath hovering over its nest Elder Statesman and women sleep depressed Nonchalantly inadvertently not aware that they are...Read the rest...
Categories: allusion, analogy, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Rhyme



TEARS GOT NO PAIN
Tears Got No Pain For Daisy Kirui Can you hear the call far the yonder? The still and clear mystery that afternoon? When Daisy took her heart to see you her son? And...And you still ponder? "It's over, son,...Read the rest...
Categories: allusion, 12th grade, abuse, adventure,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Rainbow's End
I’ve walked Many a mile Since every Rainbow’s End Was just a wish away Every pot of gold Has stayed a wish ahead I’ve walked Many a mile Through smoke-filled haze And alcoholic daze Melody now gone From lonesome cities I took no time To listen...Read the rest...
Categories: 12th grade, addiction, allusion,
Form: Free verse
EL NO SABER
NOT KNOWING There are things that we have in mind that sometimes we believe them so much to the point of not listening to other voices that do not support what we believe today. There are...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, allusion, anger, art,
Form: Blank verse
'bout voila'z
. 'tiz true i'll visit the b&b with the softest ...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, allusion, beautiful, character,
Form: Carpe Diem
'bout Voila
Categories: adventure, allusion, beautiful, character,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member look closely
invisible men see through nakedness ~ they do not need x-ray specs said the wife to her unfaithful husband ~ she was laid bare on her ex ...Read the rest...
Categories: allusion, betrayal, perspective,
Form: Monoku
hole'lup uh minute
. don't y'all move not uh muscle ...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, allusion,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Filling Up Spaces With Words
Does anyone have the conception that I'm disconnected from reality, so fearful to face more hardships? All I do is filling up spaces with words, they fit perfectly to make me feel easy: it's awful to be judged with...Read the rest...
Categories: allusion, bullying, change, culture,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member THE Drought -
Prickly are the waters drought no more do drops collected gallons of waters evaporated once was a lake than a pond now it's not even a fishing hole dust rise up we're vapors once vented ...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, allegory, allusion, assonance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member One Faithful heart, One Unfaithful Heart
How different we are now to have one faithful heart and one unfaithful heart; where's that bright glow? How much sadness we give to each other, instead of being unfair; distrust, rage and disloyalty are dangerous pitfalls... they can't avoid this tragedy! Truly, are all...Read the rest...
Categories: allusion, betrayal, desire, destiny,
Form: Lyric

Specific Types of Allusion Poems

Definition | What is Allusion in Poetry?


Book: Shattered Sighs