Best Symbolism Poems
Below are the all-time best Symbolism poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of symbolism poems written by PoetrySoup members
THE ROSE~THE ROSE~
This is not a poem about a rose
Nor a poem about diligence and beauty
Today, I sit and stare at the walls
Walls ...
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Categories:
symbolism, absence, allusion, death, depression,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The EndThe End
Seeing through these cold dead eyes now,
This world looks much different.
The scars of one’s life entire,
Appear now for all to see.
What once meant everything,
Really...
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Categories:
symbolism, change, death, god, heaven,
Form:
Lyric
The Age of Poet Destroyer
A diamond in the Frost ... I am Emily, gazing through the years,
Like Poe from rancid taste and dark smoke shadows
Florescent waste escaping a...
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Categories:
symbolism, community, pride, princess, strength,
Form:
Epic
Love's Alchemy is EternalLove’s Alchemy is Eternal
Your look, touch, and scent now so perfect pure,
Enchants my true emotions and soaring passion.
I knoweth now our love shall always endure,
As...
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Categories:
symbolism, dream, emotions, god, heaven,
Form:
Sonnet
Texian Macabre ArenaThe First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...
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Categories:
pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form:
Ballad
Venus Gifts A Yarrow's Kiss
O, weeping willow shed your sorrow
on whispering breeze to soothe your grief
within whose breath's a healing yarrow
to whisk away tears upon your leaf.
Sweet rustling zephyr...
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Categories:
symbolism, emotions, heartbreak, hope, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
BASTARD "All Children Are Beautiful"
His heart of white, deep shallow wells, -yet beautiful
He smirks with a grin, an ego that won't...
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Categories:
symbolism, art, beauty, betrayal, child,
Form:
Ballad
Diamond Cut"A Broken Demo"
In a desperate cry for help
She hires every jeweler
A cheap sheep crying, Wolf!
Using old repeating politic
utilizing lies * manipulation
To cover the Glass...
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Categories:
symbolism, abuse, evil, leadership, political,
Form:
Free verse
Vincent van Gogh: Cafe Terrace At Night
from beyond his
vibrant palette
that bore all his
lifelong scars
is what I see
beneath his sky
and myriad
of stars
a scene of shades
and silhouettes
formed by the
yellow light
that hints at
The...
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Categories:
appreciation, art, symbolism,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Floccinaucinihilipilification And Very Little BreadFloccinaucinihilipilification And Very Little Bread
( First of Three Poem Trilogy )
I
I've no problem with bardolatry fans
their barmecide and...
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Categories:
symbolism, appreciation, art, character, meaningful,
Form:
Rhyme
RETREAT TO HEED OUR HONEST DEEDSRETREAT TO HEED OUR HONEST DEEDS
Two old oak trees weathered by winds and rain
with fallen leaves, branches and toughened bark
to shield a core of grandeur,...
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Categories:
symbolism, art, friendship, meaningful, nature,
Form:
Sonnet
Here, Again: The Autumn EquinoxWritten for the Avebury Gorsedd, 24th September 2016
I wish you well...
I’m here, again…
Come riding in, upon the western wave
My hair all wove with...
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Categories:
symbolism, autumn, england, myth, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Price of Free WillMedicine Hat Appaloosa
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Remember free will too has been gifted,
with freedom allied to fate's fickle choice.
Tendered words uttered still..now uplifted,
God provides each one a life...
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Categories:
symbolism, 6th grade, earth, god,
Form:
Sonnet
Out my windowthe moon swoons in enfolding arms of sky -
a glassed-out world I cannot touch,
seen through pain and this pane
my four sycamores, sick to the core...
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Categories:
depression, nature, symbolism, tree,
Form:
Free verse
The Ballad Of Poet Destroyer"The Ballad of The Poet Destroyer"
Destroyer, and creator of words
Flying high on the wings of a bird
Drowning every inch, by foes and friends
Where has she...
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Categories:
symbolism, absence, courage, me, missing
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm into the DarknessA Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm into the Darkness
Entering the dark side of a moonbeam on this evil lens of life,
A gruesome old man recreates...
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Categories:
symbolism, dark, evil, fantasy, horror,
Form:
Narrative
The VoiceThe Voice…
On a dark night that was darker than my pain,
nothing was there for me except to complain.
I hid myself...
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Categories:
imagination, journey, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Masnavi
Quietus
In a mire brewed
betwixt puddles of hell and mute dissent
a martyr wades -
weighed down by chains of shame and disdain, alas
the thirsting self-absorbed...
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Categories:
symbolism, angst, conflict, dark, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Breaking BadBreaking Bad
Criminals
dance with slum lords
they shed fake tears
victims they shout
from Ivory towers
Mock and attack
they of dark cloth and deceit
possesses no real God
they whoreship only their...
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Categories:
symbolism, abuse, art, bullying, kindergarten,
Form:
Quatrain
Ageless Seeds Of Simple JoysAgeless Seeds Of Simple Joys
When walking in splatter of Spring's anticipated rains
blessed is the youth in you, if wearing no shoes;
further given if you can...
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Categories:
symbolism, appreciation, art, beautiful, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
I Saw The Great And Mighty WaveI Saw The Great And Mighty Wave
I saw the great and mighty wave
As it came,
The emerald glistening of its heart,
A chasing spasm under blue-lit sky
Dawn's...
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Categories:
symbolism, art, deep, emotions, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Doomed To Feel That Bite And Hear Serpent's Wicked Hiss(1A.)
Doomed To Feel That Bite And Hear Serpent's Wicked Hiss
Beyond mingling of Light, Matter, Human thought
reams of coils within darkest abyss are there caught
denied rays...
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Categories:
symbolism, art, creation, dark, deep,
Form:
Rhyme
The True Mother
“The True Mother”
What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow
bleed out Life’s...
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Categories:
symbolism, betrayal, imagery, love, mother
Form:
Free verse
Whisky Moment ~the Fear of Never~ A DRINK TO REMEMBER!
And the fire catches every time, my heart needs a sip
I bear no shame pouring,...
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Categories:
symbolism, abuse, addiction, celebration, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Soul mates solaceWhen my final shadows cling on desperately
Where I fight formidable battles
to merely hold the light
I send you loving vibrations
and soul sustenance
Deep from the cathedral
of one...
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Categories:
symbolism, art, bereavement, body, care,
Form:
Free verse