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Best Symbol Poems

Below are the all-time best Symbol poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of symbol poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member That Starry Night
Like no one before, nor since
 you painted that starry night in oils
  superimposing your life story.

I feel I know this idyllic village
 blanketed...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: symbol, art, depression, night, passion,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: symbol, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member This Spring the Poppies Bloomed
A field afire
papery petals glow like ruby votive candles
a collection of cupped solar flames
vowed to shine despite the dew before dawn
evaporating any doubt the sun...

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Categories: symbol, beauty, flower, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bio:Closing Time,Memories



       CLOSING TIME AT THE PUB


The joy, the camaraderie, the smoke.
The great ale, my great friends in Chicago.
Old Town,...

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Categories: symbol, chicago, friendship, memory, mental
Form: Bio
Premium Member Plethora of Poetry
~STRIP TEASE~     Featuring:) SKAT

Silver Skimpy Ink, String, A POET DESTROYER's bling, bling
Think of me as a human ditty delicious decoration,
Something along...

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Categories: symbol, addiction, adventure, beauty, passion,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Of Infinity
In the land of finite, measurable calculus of existence,
You are a silhouette of mystique, esoteric obscurity,
A symbol ambiguous, living among realm of precision, 
Unreachable to...

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Categories: symbol, perspective,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Hourglass Wears Wings
In shadow 'neath the shining of a soul 
a heart trembles
for her lost 
control.
Hope 
lives 
in Him
who forgives
trespass and sin
as flight with Mercy’s angel does...

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Categories: symbol, angel, death, faith, forgiveness,
Form: Tetractys
Premium Member Nemesis-POTD
In the realm of battles waged by fate,
Where heroes rise and villains bait,
There dwells a force, unconquerable, vast,
A nemesis, whose shadow is cast.

With nefarious intent,...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: symbol, analogy, appreciation, creation, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Love Is
Love is a rainbow mirrored in the sky
Its free, its beautiful and tells no lies

A gleaming reflection
Upon the still of a pond
The dewy mist on...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: symbol, beautiful, devotion, happiness, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sweet Ghost Valentine
An old house I am led to -it is the symbol of
Memories in cobwebs - like those of old lost love.

A storehouse for so many...

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Categories: symbol, lost love, love, me,
Form: Couplet
In the Name of Dove -With Ram R V
little Rock
               Doves at my feet
     ...

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Categories: symbol, appreciation, bird, , cute,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Garden of a Wounded Soul
Like an ebony rose in a province 
of ivory and golden flowers,
you poisoned each peaceful petal
with your senseless scent of death.

You were never just another...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: symbol, analogy, angst, forgiveness, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Famous Last Line
India (Original Poem)

I hear much joy in the music,
View elation in the dance
Feel happiness in the laughter,
Soulful spirit in poetic romance.

I feel love in the...

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Categories: symbol, hindi, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poet Convention 2014
Poet Convention

Lost in a poets convention, 
I can't recall every poem, I've read through the years
50518, unique comments I 'validate'--- 
Thank You For Sharing Your...

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Categories: symbol, celebration, character, dedication, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soaring Hawk - a Haiku Series
Soaring Hawk poised high
Back drop a deep sapphire sky 
Winds in attendance

Mighty wings unfold
Caressing the Wind Spirits
They lift and support

Circling Hawk perceives
Rainbow circle on a...

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Categories: symbol, beach, beauty, bird, flower,
Form: Haiku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things