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Best Allegory Poems

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Premium Member The Angel Inside
Coral life forms in copious swarms
feast in the Cambrian chyme,
dividing their cells and forming their shells
to end on the seafloor as lime.
Tectonic churning and magma...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allegory, angel, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
The Older I Get
I once heard the whisper of falling snow,
saw a spark in the eye of a coal-black crow,
felt the power and awe of a swift river's...

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Categories: allegory, angst, health
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member My Heart Skips a Beat My Love
My heart skips a beat my love each and every time 
I’m with you my dearest sweet and lovely Darling
Since the passions and feelings you...

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Categories: allegory, beauty, celebration, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Door To Nowhere
Door to Nowhere


Royalty have Chateau’s
With moats and drawbridges

Artists have colors
Paints and brushes and dreams

The poor have soup
And Marie's gateau’s

The lonely have open doors
To nowhere

I let...

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Categories: allegory, french, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



The Four Seasons
The Four Seasons…

It was spring and I was young when I had wine.
I was singing and dancing and doing fine. 
The wine was so divine,...

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Categories: age, allegory, allusion, seasons,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Be a Candle-POTD
nascent 
     dawn appears
kaleidoscope 
 of 
color
  midnight 
    sighs 
      ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: allegory, bereavement, emotions,
Form: Other
Premium Member Your Look of Precious Love
Your Look of Precious Love

Whilst I gaze so warmly in your eyes my dearest, 
I see deeply your pure angelic soul of love 
Reflecting like...

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Categories: allegory, beauty, emotions, feelings,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Freedom
In solitude I dream tonight
And watch a moth in fevered flight.

It’s drawn toward my quaint porch light
And flies consumed with all its might.

Through open window...

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Categories: allegory, death, dream, flying,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Elephant and the Ant
There once was a little mighty ant
Who was extravagant and arrogant 
Known to be exorbitantly militant 
She was so combatant and petulant
They nicknamed her My...

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Categories: allegory, animal, change, cute,
Form: Monorhyme
The Blood Stained Bridge
Into the timeless wood he fled, running from the night
While demons of his past gave chase beneath the pale moonlight
The man dressed in soiled rags,...

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Categories: allegory,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Premium Member We, Nasty Women
must refuse relegation, obey
only the roar of our own angels, then reshape 

breastplates to shield the motherland
from any warlord who dares 

to pimp our flag.
Battlefields...

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Categories: allegory, history, political,
Form: Ekphrasis
Crescent Waltz
She slants her shining, golden glance
Across desert, mountains, rivers, plants
Greets her rising, true romance
In the purpling, opposite skies

Her lunar love, her heart’s delight
Soars to ever...

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Categories: allegory, friendship, life, love,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Ode To Spring
The light breaks free from winter’s bone
to cast its warmth; to life atone,

to warm the dark; to thaw the chill,
to synthesize through chlorophyll,
a dormant seed...

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Categories: allegory, analogy, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Freedom Finds the Fire
You'll find it in the crimson eyes
of a throwaway photo somehow frozen in time.
When the past painted us like demons
with secret fury.
And you'll find it...

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Categories: allegory, analogy, beauty, deep,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Shattered Sighs