Mythology Poems - Examples of all types of mythology poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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A Return to Seasons in ShadowA Return to Seasons in Shadow
A Season for war
We rage in twilight…
At the edge of our reason.
Winter surges at the realm,
Summer comes to slay,
Spring tries to heal,
Fall loves the decay.
Black branches clutch;
Sun rays oppress the...
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Categories:
mythology, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
LABYRINTHINE
A TRAITOROUS PATH
The coil of the labyrinth winds deep into the night.
A path that is tortuous and falls
into terror turning left then suddenly right.
Something sits in a dark room
pondering the moves of...
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Categories:
mythology, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse
MINDS EMPIRE
In the empires of my mind...
Searching for the Divine.
...
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Categories:
mythology, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Fractured Lands I
Impressions:
I reflect...
Impressions retract...
In composite cycles.
Burning optics of set cycles
Spins,
around,
falling
Down,
Swirls, twirls to a stop.
I see lightning striking the ground.
Echos of reality
Excite liquids of light.
Nanoseconds of thought!
Spun perceptions like spiders at night
Memories are snared here...
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Categories:
mythology, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,
Form: Free verse
infamy
In every effigy there is infamy...
I conceive every domain.
That is my immortal doctrine...
I see into the shadowy corners of its? facade...
Feel its faded power and ruined
opulence? The cracks remain...
I construct the lines of...
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Categories:
mythology, allegory, allusion, analogy, art,
Form: Free verse
Ananais and Sapphira - Peter and SpiritI
Spirit of God gives wisdom:
Read Acts, chapters 4 & 5
Doing charity and kicked down
Ananais & Sapphira: not alive
II
Peter sensed this couple, Christian
Had ignoble motives, sold land
Lied to him, they donated everything
At his feet. Scary bible...
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Categories:
bible, character, christian, mythology,
Form: Didactic
Medusa and her SistersThree sisters
Medusa, Stheno and Euryale
From Greek mythology
Winged women
With venomous snakes for hair
Two immortal, one not
King recruits Perseus to slay Medusa
The only mortal one
She happened to be pregnant
Out of her headless body sprang
Pegasus a winged horse
and...
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Categories:
mythology,
Form: Free verse
Moonlight in the SeaHair the color of saffron
undulating slowly
capturing the sunlight
entangling pearls in her curls
mesmerizing
Surrounded by life
bursting around her
some billowing with the ebb and flow
in time with her glorious hair
some moving through...
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Categories:
fantasy, myth, mythology, ocean,
Form: Free verse
I Searched Centuries for you, My LoveSeveral times I have glances of a,
Past life in a time that is,
So familiar to me, just not this one.
The one thing I always remember is a,
Woman whose beauty and those,
Deep blue eyes I will...
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Categories:
mythology, dedication, destiny, heart, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
On the Trail, Are We Truly Here IVBarken, History of the Midlands, Midpoint in the Beginning II
The Wanderer’s Story - the Wounded Man, part c
...
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Categories:
mythology, conflict, fantasy, history, journey,
Form: Haiku
Bedlam BluesCain killed Abel on a Monday night
Abel didn’t get a chance to put up much of a fight
Cain said, “am I my brother’s keeper?” God said, “yeah,” but Cain said, “nah”
Adam just shook his...
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Categories:
allegory, funny, murder, mythology,
Form: Political Verse
The goddess AppetiteyThe goddess Appetitey,
a figure I have known
The mirror makes it all so clear
...
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Categories:
mythology, fantasy, food, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Desolations Midnight Snow
It falls softly as it tumbles...
Down from the sky darkly...
Deep in the heart of midnight.
Not a deity stirs at this moment out of time.
As young eyes stare into the void of an empty room.
Something...
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Categories:
mythology, absence, abuse, addiction, allegory,
Form: Free verse
VENGEANCE
The day is long as my time is short
I walk the course of vengeance with a heavy heart
I see the pillars of flame...?
I see the roots of my shame...?
I see the orb, In the last...
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Categories:
mythology, allegory, allusion, analogy, angel,
Form: Free verse
a turning of the page
To Babylon, we came...
To watch the rise of Tower
The Tower of Cain
A fortress of dark n eternal pain
Stretching to the vaults of heaven
to quite the RAGE of Man
to challenge the reign of divinity...
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Categories:
mythology, allegory, allusion, analogy, art,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Mythology Poems
Definition | What is Mythology in Poetry?
Poems Related to Mythology
lore, belief, tradition, legend, conviction, mythos, myths, stories, folk tales, mythicism,