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Allusion Poems | Examples of Allusion Poetry

Birds and Bees
Birds and Bees The bunnies hop forever- as do birds and bees but I fear I'm subjugated by this horrible disease. I pick the poets, she loves me not. And I fear I cast my love into oceans naught. Full of fear and pain and haunting death. The screaming is so real now- when will I seek my last breath?...

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Categories: absence, addiction, adventure, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
The eyes of Gaza
The eyes of Gaza peek at the torn land Like a vanished fairy-tale with bursts of Tragic humor reverberating on Instagram. It’s not a video-game, the world of warcraft. Just ask the five year old amputated without anesthetic, And their ephemeral dream, of hiding under a sheet from The weight of bombs. Fixated on the casualty list like a...

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Categories: allusion,
Form: Free verse



pots and pans
Pots & Pans We see on the net a dust bowl of horror called Gaza people with remarkable pots and pans begging for food around an open kitchen; the thought is, do they keep the poets and pans so clean, do they take turns licking clean any vestige of nourishment of the said utensils, which tells me there is a Palestine under  the...

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Categories: age, allusion, america, april,
Form: ABC
Ingrate
Ingrate by Adejola Joseph Ingratitude of an ignorant A daylight robber and abuser of opportunities An ingrate is a time waster A simple murderer He doesn't appreciate And when he does it is flattery Helping an ingrate is like pouring water in the basket. Ingrate....

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Categories: allusion,
Form: Free verse
Identity
you have to heal to love, break to shake, and cut to bleed. you will never be capable of love if your not capable of being, tap into your feelings and live for peace, tap into the side thats to soft to see, because thats where you’ll find and come to see, that person you...

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Categories: allusion, angst, blessing, confusion,
Form: Free verse



Peace of mind
PEACE OF MIND left hurt and wounded by my own actions, yeah you started it but i didnt have to go there, i shouldve just minded my business, ignored the situation, but i didnt, i couldnt bite my tongue, i couldn’t refute the anger you sent me in shockwaves, words that i shouldve said but i didnt, words that i shouldnt of said...

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Categories: age, allusion, anger, care,
Form: Free verse
I Drank from an Hourglass
It has long ceased to rain here. The embers of drought are fanned by the merciless Hands of hell. The air is stifling, The heat insufferable. I cringe from a long wait on a queue in the narrow Trench at a fast-drying Brook. I wait from the crack of dawn to vespers time, But not an iota of liquid The size of miniaturised Sri Lanka...

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Categories: allusion, community, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
No Multiplicity
contest : multiplicity of self sponsor : Alice Reynolds 27.7.25 ——————————————- multiplicity self infinite and fractal god within found soul without thought ~ no thought...

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Categories: allusion, change, character, creation,
Form: Other
Punishment
Little boy drops over, The boys playing in the streets. It is done in the name of Stopping war, but punishing The fellows who don’t know What war is, how to fight, How to use weapons. They only ever fight with words And hands. ...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Categories: allusion, angst, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form: Free verse
YOU ARE MY FLOWER
You are a flower watered by pure desire Of a young heart so deep in love A red rose in the sun, you are my flower. I know you are a flower ready to blossom Gracefully dancing away in the wind of autumn I know you are my flower never to whither You are a flower...

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Categories: 12th grade, allegory, allusion,
Form: Free verse
HUMOROUS CONTRAST
In the Lady Godiva competition a nude lady won... Others in formal attire were disqualified!...

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Categories: allusion, perspective,
Form: Burlesque
ST FRANCIS AND ST CLARE : TWIN SOULS : PART 2
no turning back at nineteen years of age with bonded Love no eyes could see or earthly arms could hold dear into a fold of aligning human Heart with Divine injunction none could part self dies and dies some more mere cart dark night after dark night only He could lift in Time convoluted sore by suffering...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, character, courage,
Form: Epic
ST FRANCIS AND ST CLARE : TWIN SOULS : PART 1
separated by vows of abstinence but forever bonded by Light entwined two parallel Orders twinned in material poverty firm endured with One Heart beating to missions of Love ordained in living Truth never adjourned vessels of opposite gender each frolicking happy dancing and singing as children of holy futures Assisi blessed two exceptional...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, character, christian,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Thought of the day
thoughts are mere symbols, symbols illusion ~ why then do we languish in delusion...

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Categories: allusion, introspection, words,
Form: Couplet

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