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The flame in the heartDon't give them power
I, the fuel to my fire
Can walk out through dark...
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Categories:
symbolism, love, motivation, passion, pride,
Form: Haiku
The Stain Crusaders
"The Stain Crusaders"
Plath left the pages long ago
and Bacharach’s Blue-on-Blue
is an ineffectual softer numb-shade-of-Blue
dear green green Anthropocene
this much is true
with all the I love you’s
the wandering crusaders
are far far removed
sitting atop their soap boxes
sudsing...
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Categories:
blue, dark, green, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
An Old Hand Reveals ItselfI see no sign of forced entry...
just copper suns and cornflower blue,
have you been here all this time?
I don't remember inviting you,
and now all my voices are a chatter,
with threats I cannot construe.
...
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Categories:
symbolism, confidence, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: Lyric
Serpentine
"Serpentine"
Give a woman enough rope
and She’ll show you
what hanging’s worth
the life coiled around
a body of work
could be misconstrued
serpentine
She draws from the rock
like it's Her cornerstone
creation
sexuality
fertility
the life force
of our...
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Categories:
muse, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
ice ice lady
the snow falls on her
her fingers red from the cold
frozen winter bones...
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Categories:
symbolism, december, girl, mental health,
Form: Haiku
The Neverending Freight TrainMy father explained it to me this way
“It was like getting on a freight train. There was no getting off,”
Those are the words he used when discussing commitment to my mother you see
I tried to...
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Categories:
symbolism, analogy, beautiful, forgiveness, imagery,
Form: Free verse
The Official ComedyMaybe I walk in your shoes,
Perhaps you sleep like my loops,
Probably, this is an unimaginable satire,
Inside your head, I can never born again and be a disaster.
Perhaps I am only your necessity,
Probably, I walk on...
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Categories:
symbolism, anxiety, depression, feelings, irony,
Form: Free verse
FragmentsLiving pigmentations of one’s imagination,
Inferring colors makes our vision blurry, but the scorching sun rests our eyes once again.
Fog covers the lenses of reality, making our eyes peel at the slightest sight of life....
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Categories:
symbolism, angst, deep, life, poems,
Form: Acrostic
CROSSROADSWell, here I am again… at my crossroads
I can tell they are mine
The marker I.D. reads “Between a rock and a hard place”
“What a shameful disgrace
As usual, I am not alone
We are not born alone
So,...
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Categories:
symbolism, destiny, journey, mythology, perspective,
Form: Prose Poetry
Hidden assetsEverything in your house is worth something -how bad do you need it?...
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Categories:
symbolism,
Form: Monoku
I am Lost-contaminatedIt’s hard for me to differentiate between Truth and lies.. it was hard to come to terms with the facts
But right now, the fact is I’m lost
I thought I was smarter i thought...
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Categories:
symbolism, deep, depression, light, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
A False CombinationSometimes I don't know you,
Other times I don't know me,
Sometimes, you are just a stranger crossing the sky's limit,
Other times, you are my dearest brethren.
You don't look beyond the surface,
My perceived height is nothing but...
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Categories:
symbolism, emotions, fate, heartbroken, irony,
Form: Free verse
I Am Made Of Rotton RootsI am made of rotten roots
flush with dead skeleton leaves
when touched, crumble
but moss grows on my rib-cage bones
and mold covers my heart
where there’s moisture
so something must live in me yet...
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Categories:
symbolism, deep, depression, endurance, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Are There Days Without DarknessDo others often ask themselves,
" Are there days without darkness...
when another storm shows fierceness?
Has hope dimmed for selfish reasons? "
And the living pay little attention to events,
although they grin and appear to be perplexed;
and...
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Categories:
symbolism, corruption, evil, fate, freedom,
Form: Lyric
The FlyI sat and watched as it continually banged it's head into the window pane, that fly.
My cat sits on the cill and swipes out at the fly as it buzzes around his head,
But he missed...
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Categories:
symbolism, crazy, emotions, feelings, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Symbolism Poems
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