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Allusion Poems | Examples of Allusion Poetry

Dinner Bell
The sun will shine, The moon will rise. The nights will always glimmer. The birds will fly, The bugs will glide, The people will hide for winter. Everyday subsidies, Everyday I survived, I still don’t feel like a winner. All the plates will be shined, All the guest get invites, But I’ll still eat alone for...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Trolls, Bots and Spidered Webs
Through false truth, the Rus reclaims hegemony, Farming trolls to be enrolled, 'Neath bridges, clowns, see enemies, Puking riddles on those tolled. Then the bots deliver the hurl, Regurgitate into the net, Till truth is common as a pearl, Yet what you see is what you get. Spidered webs entangle yonder, The language largely modeled, And artificial minds are left to ponder, Which words are...

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Categories: allusion, america, corruption, immigration,
Form: Rhyme



The Curcumstances
Is Calvinism the cousin of Providence And Mystery the brother of Fate Does Liberty relate to Religion And do Laws protect or berate Can Unity support Division Or Loves opposite other than Hate Can Truth be hidden from leaders and multiply the problems we face Can Time be suspended By the simple act of Faith Can Salvation find the Needy Before it is too late...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member ALTHOUSE POD-
Dun hill donuts don't make na change make no scents smelly, stinky non Everffiecent relvelenct tech no manure stench Come apart partly cleft ain't none sun bench Can't support the door when it hangs below the floor crist, krash, dung Life at the odhouse pod 4/24/25 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025© ...

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Categories: adventure, allusion, analogy, character,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Council of the Wicked
As the man walks alone he sees the joy from the counsel that has become the Pharisees. They have given the oath of rituals that pertain to the past and not for the future. Looking at the actions and expectations, he sees them like the corrupted Phrarisees. What they have done is go against the Edenic beauty of...

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Categories: allusion, analogy, conflict, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet



Shadows IV
The darkness settles in at 1400 and it is crying It has deal with pain in a manner that is becoming burdensome It is tired of all the disappoints and is still crying Physical pain would be less burdensome The connection of souls does not come to the lips HOPE is lost and not in any universe The constant disappointment has...

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Categories: absence, allusion, anxiety, depression,
Form: Sonnet
Night Terrors
Running down Chicago Ave barefoot brain buzzing hymns and static, neon crucifix blinking above a bodega, the gospel of smoke and piss, all-night diner flickering with ghosts of jukeboxes past—she laughs in her sleep, god I miss her already, dreaming of Congo drums, 3AM baptisms, ash on my tongue and wind in my coat, don’t...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
my soul in foreign lands, forgotten 1
The map unrolls, a skin of dust, where landmarks shift like whispers lost to a gust. I trace a fracture, jagged, unfamiliar... A place where my phantom feet wandered, chillier than memory allows. A tongue they spoke is lost, A melody unheard, for a dearly paid-for cost. within the crumbling walls of an infernal keep, A cracked, blackened mirror shows a face,...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, art, dark,
Form: Free verse
INCREDIBLE
Nothing has changed... but all is unlike from what it was seconds ago......

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Categories: allusion, perspective, time,
Form: Monoku
WALK poetrix
I walk stoically through life with complete certainty of arriving at some good place... when... I don't know! ...

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Categories: allusion, analogy, journey, life,
Form: Epigram
GOD THE WAY I REALIZE
God is nature, the universe, sum of all things and all that is good....

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Categories: allusion, god, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Monoku
love they say
Love, they say  When I was fifty-two, I fell in love and that was hard; I lost my sanity for the sake of love I had been married twice before I met my  undoing, learned the rope of living a pretense of love when the only thing of interest was sex I was never a family man, leaving me, the women did...

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Categories: addiction, age, allusion,
Form: ABC
A Muggy Day in Assam
The air is heavy— like a warm, wet blanket wrapped around everything. The sun? Hiding behind a cloud, like it doesn’t want to deal with the day. The Brahmaputra flows— slow, wide, calm. It mirrors the dull sky, grey and tired like it skipped breakfast. The trees don’t move. Not even a whisper of wind. Just leaves, soaked with sweat, hanging there like they’ve given up. The cicadas...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse
The Tree
Some see your for your beauty But I only see the pain No one at all can see inside Life travels on just like a train So strong you are, so full of life But there's something they can't know Deep inside the roots, a ghost through each season darkness grows A face so unforgiving guilt builds just like a trap It sucks you in,...

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Categories: allusion, anxiety, deep,
Form: Rhyme
UNIVERSAL REALITY
When we put on again the cloak of spiritual reality that truth will set us free......

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Categories: allusion, perspective, spiritual, truth,
Form: Epigram

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