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Parable Poems - Poems about Parable

Parable Poems - Examples of all types of poems about parable to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for parable.
Premium Member Pondering Parables
Among tales told long ago were those of finding hidden buried treasures, of growing seeds in diverse soils, of building homes on sand or rock, of sorting worthy sheep from wicked goats, of inviting multitudes to a banquet, of celebrating a...Read the rest...
Categories: parable, faith, fantasy, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Revisiting a Zen parable
Zen master ...Read the rest...
Categories: parable, analogy, uplifting,
Form: Concrete



Parable paired in a pairing unit, you knead--- A Translation of Nirmalendu Goon
You and your pliant touch lit me up, there my diva, morn. After the shower, your wet hair and your braid, in trying untangling Humble effort, down to earth I rush to thee, my open palm , water...Read the rest...
Categories: parable, absence, january,
Form: Free verse

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Parable Of The Seed
Into the hard ground A seed has fallen in despair Unto grace His care....Read the rest...
Categories: parable, faith, gospel, humanity, life,
Form: Haiku
A Sunflower Parable
When the sunflowers awake they will follow a blind sun. For now, they are cold hard seeds in a softening earth. The dark is their light, just as the light can be dark, in the sleeping mind. When tall, some taller than I, some...Read the rest...
Categories: parable, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Parable Terrible and Unbearable
heard a parable which had been unbearable sounding terrible they would enable you to hide under a table which was in a stable when you will appall where you have started to stall like humpty may fall ...Read the rest...
Categories: parable, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Prepared Parable Horn Haiku
prepared parabola when high on chair and noble will be great and global Karen Krutsinger Murder should be spelled MURDER. Comments Turned Off Horn Haiku sorry that comments by you will have been turned off why I do not know Now 8,960 poems and shooting for...Read the rest...
Categories: parable, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Two Mountains Crumbling In Daylight
Eons ago, near two flowing rivers in old China Lived an old, white clothed man ninety-nine years of age Who glared at two mountains he knew from his long-dead childhood Who glared at the giants...Read the rest...
Categories: parable, dedication, endurance, heaven, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
The Parable of the Pipe-Down Piper
Behold the Pied Piper has tossed his pipe belatedly in the trash Having led folks down some garden paths he trousered wads of cash Dollars, pounds, euros, rolls of wallpaper - the currency didn’t...Read the rest...
Categories: parable, confidence, dance, devotion, hyperbole,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reposted Black Friday, Parable To Broad Way, a Narrow Way
This is a parable how so many on the highway to death Following and fighting over material things Caught up in this world following the crowd We have Jesus on the other end with the self check out Have...Read the rest...
Categories: parable, fate,
Form: Free verse
Uncle Patience and His Wife
PATIENCE AND IMPATIENCE. Patience is morality they say, That: does not function with a noblewoman whose man is far away. Won't she alleviate her fever with another man? Perhaps the one who is not apt of being with...Read the rest...
Categories: parable, 12th grade, allusion, art,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member While I Whisper
With tendencies towards modes abhorrent, I operate Hone deterrence to deserved carnal pleasure consolidate Intentional extension of potential paths provoke Libidinous grasping of bliss platter's swift...Read the rest...
Categories: parable, analogy, betrayal, christian, conflict,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Merlin the Magic Cat
Merlin the cranky cat sat around getting fat. Wanting to be heard he mewed and purred. He yowled and howled and even growled all with the same result. He felt it quite the insult. He snarled and hissed What had he missed? He tried...Read the rest...
Categories: parable, allegory, cat, cute, magic,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Pitiful Parable of Pistol Pete
Pistol Pete is Peaceful Peter now, Married life has altered him, and how. He used to be a honky tonker Always spoiling for a fight, Now he's always home with Mama And in bed by nine each night. It was a...Read the rest...
Categories: parable, funeral, husband, marriage, wife,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Parable of the Shell Game
Come, self-taught, and look at this! A game for wicked guides, A game of hit-or-miss, A game My truth decides. The leaders of this nation, They conspire against Me. Time for revelation, About My sovereign pea. I draw them to My table, My shell...Read the rest...
Categories: parable, analogy, bible, conflict, faith,
Form: Rhyme

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