Allusion Poems | Examples of Allusion Poetry

Shoreditch clung to its ruin Its roughhewn gate staring out at corpses And the clutch of travellers heading from the fields, The shepherds rambling onwards, The herders with their slow-moving cattle, hoofs Thudding on the stones. Amongst them the knights recently Back from troubles in the north, armour Burnished like Sunday roast yelling oaths Like washer women until they were, like the...

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The gaze transcends the confines of time, Recognizing that distance holds no limits, and The Moon yearns for kindness. If only they were aware of forever, Of transience, of what lies ahead... Everything whirls like a mill, Until time fades away Into realms unknown, Beyond the dreams...

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Writing this poem in an awful plight, I wonder when mr.nigeria would be safe and secure. Everyone running helter-skelter, Insecurity and kidnapping are our next door neighbours, Social vices are becoming rampant in the society at large. Injustice, corruption and inhuman killings are the order of the day, People are scared and filled with fear, Many innocent souls are lost in...

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the bringer of light morphs into thief in the night demigods' next plight...

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Why the weight of life? Why not just the lightness, even If unsustainable?...

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removing the transparent veil countless truths secrets revealed from you!...

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heart unhindered open doors subtle ...

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Ariana shrugged facing Josh’s mocking clap the stringy harmonica rang acrobatically on the streetlights. He handed her a firebomb, eyes sharp as vinegar. They ran across the hot asphalt, watching the brass kite rise. Both caught in the whirlpool of the maze, they guided the trumpet, mandolin filling the air, sinking into the smokehouse. Her jacket flared,...

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She inhales the aurora, breath laced with frozen with light speed Pulsar fingers stretch through cirrus gauze, her bodice bending like solar flares. Astronaut A quasar shudders behind her lips, erupting across the event horizon. Space folds— she unspools like a nebula unraveling, luminous in the underworld aphrodisiac of your vanilla fragrance...

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Moist sheets tossed aside soaked pillows Side by side single mattress She was exposed drippings Dime sack and tree rings brittle snowcats Green sight meet brown peepers Plumb late April Boreal Plains humidity Abittor Unami eau de cologne electricity Thin plain pink blanket on the window Air conditioner recirculating Salmon rays preen her face Noon spring afternoon the rain stopped the sun...

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full moon pours moonlight: of love silver platinum...!...

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Such an immense love disrupts my infinite thoughts can't know what to do...

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dreams fantasize eyes invite heart beats...

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Seek knowledge as one who mines precious treasures... ...

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-When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in the world. Today, I'm sure. !!!...

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