Best Allegory Poems
Below are the all-time best Allegory poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of allegory poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Angel InsideCoral 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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Categories:
allegory, angel, art, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
A Kept WomanDream-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 GetI 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
My Heart Skips a Beat My LoveMy 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
Door To NowhereDoor 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 SeasonsThe 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
Categories:
allegory, bereavement, emotions,
Form:
Other
Your Look of Precious LoveYour 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
FreedomIn 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
The Elephant and the AntThere 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 BridgeInto 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
Ode To SpringThe 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
We, Nasty Womenmust 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 WaltzShe 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
Where Freedom Finds the FireYou'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