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Symbolism Poems | Examples of Symbolism Poetry

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The flame in the heart
Don't give them power I, the fuel to my fire Can walk out through dark...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, love, motivation, passion, pride,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: blue, dark, green, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Old Hand Reveals Itself
I 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. ...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, confidence, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: muse, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
ice ice lady
the snow falls on her her fingers red from the cold frozen winter bones...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, december, girl, mental health,
Form: Haiku



The Neverending Freight Train
My 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...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, analogy, beautiful, forgiveness, imagery,
Form: Free verse
The Official Comedy
Maybe 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...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, anxiety, depression, feelings, irony,
Form: Free verse
Fragments
Living 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....Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, angst, deep, life, poems,
Form: Acrostic
CROSSROADS
Well, 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,...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, destiny, journey, mythology, perspective,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Hidden assets
Everything in your house is worth something -how bad do you need it?...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism,
Form: Monoku
I am Lost-contaminated
It’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...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, deep, depression, light, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
A False Combination
Sometimes 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...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, emotions, fate, heartbroken, irony,
Form: Free verse
I Am Made Of Rotton Roots
I 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...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, deep, depression, endurance, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Are There Days Without Darkness
Do 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...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, corruption, evil, fate, freedom,
Form: Lyric
The Fly
I 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...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, crazy, emotions, feelings, insect,
Form: Rhyme

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