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Water Allusion Poems

These Water Allusion poems are examples of Allusion poems about Water. These are the best examples of Allusion Water poems written by international poets.


Return My Tears
for : Choose a line 2
Sponsor : Joseph May
prompt: “The darkened sky stole my tears”
submission date :  27/5/25

   RETURN MY TEARS 

The...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, character, color,



Cantata
Cantata
He stood there on a plateau that only had a tree,
And since he had appeared from nowhere, there
Was there no past to bother with?
He sat...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allusion, absence, adventure, africa, age,

Premium Member Large Heads
Large heads
The Modern Slavery Crisis Must Be Addressed.
Calling on all poets for an urgent meet-up 
The Pied Piper has surfaced again in this world. 
On...

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Categories: abuse, allah, allusion, anti

when the ancient goes wild
When the ancient goes wild 
Our hotel in Porto was at the highest point
although we had been promised a room downtown we
didn’t have to walk so...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: age, allusion, baptism,

NATURAL INVISIBLE EVENT


             dawn breaks, the sun shines
       ...

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Categories: allusion, extended metaphor, magic,



FRANCISCO THE SIMPLE DIED


The simple, spontaneous man died
he died suffering, but happy as he always was;
he knew the spiritual value
of "putting more water on the beans"
He knew how...

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Categories: allusion, death, words,

Premium Member Kiss and Run
Please kiss and run, my only son
Her body is on fire.

Water rises,
Whisky on the table, 
A unique type of gold in a glass,
That type of...

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Categories: absence, addiction, allegory, allusion,

Premium Member The Matriarchs are Molting Again
Grandma’s ghost has taken up
knitting rattlesnakes in the drapes. 
They hiss when someone lies.

Now, my mother only speaks
in noodle metaphors.
I ask her how she is,...

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Categories: age, allusion, women, word

Unzipped

Defiled by being stuffed into a sac so tight,
A confinement that suffocates, a desperate plight.
Zipped to the end by thy very  blood's own right,
A...

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Categories: allusion, anger, art, betrayal,

Hot Rally Soup Note: Must be prepared in July
Take one demigod from the melting pot
Give it a Mega-phone (the louder the better)
Mix in a heavy dose of Fox News, make it a bit...

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Categories: abuse, allusion, anger, corruption,

FISH AND WATER


     The fish's home is
      the free water...
       running,
 ...

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Categories: allusion, analogy, extended metaphor,

Premium Member The Now Continuum
Line of inquiry:
“since thoughts speak in past tenses,

drop mind, rely on senses,

embracing and releasing,

pain pangs and pleasure pleasing”
———————————————————
Some look back despite shades of black
Or rose...

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Categories: allusion, angst, body, poetry,

WATER


             

        Water,
   a...

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Categories: allusion, analogy, blessing, extended

Premium Member Felix Culpa
We quarreled to bitter, burning degrees 
(you)loving me 
as a tender trespasser 
     a chew toy 
    ...

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Categories: allusion, blessing, freedom, hyperbole,

tin pan's corners
i'm whiskey beats outta country
jazz, too classic
old's city in LA
high damn
runnin up you like water
all most hiding skin

and overatures 
lest i grieve through absurd
trist's with...

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Categories: allusion, analogy, city, confusion,


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