Allegorical Poems - Poems about Allegorical

song of the mattress she slept, wrinkled and small on satin sheets, a band-aide covering her mattress, knees tucked tightly beneath her chin and legs pressed against her breasts as if waiting for a gigantic splash when she hit the water motionless, she dreamed of burgundy and peaches from georgia and hoped to drive...

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CRUCIFIED RESURRECTED TREE Sage crucified tree, gray, and buck naked, granted spring's resurrection... ...

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Be not like fall leaves, Dehydrated and in dry dirt; Be as frothing waves… ...

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once again the warmth of sunshine showered my being awakening the inkwell of mind overflowing in musing contemplations of allegorical messages of a fertile womb of mind seeking to inoculate others against infectious lies of deceit sowing apathtic seeds towards empty scales of justice and plowing that pandemic-abracadabra oppressor syndrome that we must uproot in the awareness of ancient poetic-tragedies being a thing of the past and that we must be even stronger than...

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An immigrant nation Imprisoning immigrants Not equally born or not born Of its natives and considered Criminals is indeed oxymoronic In a country founded by immigrants Thru usurping and uprooting indigenous People of their bordered lands And nearly extincting them Via hue-skin oppression In a supposedly new found nation Baptized with the the blood of those Who simply became natives of a new Claimed land...

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Living and dying, juxtaposed realities; life's cradles and graves:-...

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Dust shrouds the peeling varnish on the old church pew as Noah (first of his namesake, last of his namesake) thumbs an overripe orange in his patchwork coat pocket. The preacher, made an obelisk by distance and light looms against the marble cross, stark fragmented, like bullet holes through white fencing. He speaks. “Every Living Thing Has A Soul And...

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AN ALLEGORICAL COCOON LESSON (APROPOS OF POLLING) In preparation, ants are moulding And stacking their mounds; in hives, Bees reflect collective oneness In the sweetness of their unity; And in high distant places, black Widows meticulously spin their webs, While honing hornets harden their nests:- Cocooned in political and economic darkness, Let us not be dismayed, apathetic sojourners; Remember, while caterpillars are entombed To...

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(Apropos of Black Poetic Griots) We may not be deemed apostolic recorders But we poets, guided with divine wisdom, are The lay scribes thereof in the chronicling of Our life’s sojourn in the shadowing times we spend here on this parcel of what is An example of planetary creation; And we Poet-Griots who are of the hue of what was Before it was...

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In a mishmash of the ubiquitous Consonants peppered with vowels Thoughts flow as my hypergraphia grows Building fireworks of prose Upon scraps; line or unlined sheets With a restrictive verse I the Poeter can be quite terse A thought provoking reshaper A tessellation of text into rows As this near Rondeau Prime is set to close Lest, we not fail to mention semivowels With the aforementioned...

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Once again we’re wedged in a wrinkle of time in our lives; a wrinkle that can’t be so easily ironed out and pressed away. Yet the ironing board of solutions remain up and challenging steam continues to gush out; however, conflicting political sizing complicates the strained ironing out process…stalling progress. Those of us familiar with social distance look on in curious awe at...

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The Bible Itself, Explains Itself (2 Pet. 1: 20) Explains It Better, Than Anyone Else Once, It’s Taken Off The Shelf & Explore Complete Message Left The Bible Tells, Which Words Are Allegorical (Rev. 1: 1) The Bible Tells, Which Verses Are Metaphorical (Lu. 8: 10) The Bible States Which Are Proverbs...

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