Short Symbolically Poems

John Melhuish Srudwick
religious painting made him tick
Legends depicted symbolically
renaissance art for all to see...

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Buddha numerics
Time between death and rebirth
cosmic waiting room















(bardo- intermediate space of time between 
death and rebirth. Symbolically, 7 to
49 days in Buddhist time.)...

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Late for the Nativity
I stand among the throng
Self-consciously
Singing with the angels 
Quietly
Sensing the future
Yearning out
In front of me
Revealed 
Symbolically
How it will 
Always be
Odd one out
For all to see

The only angel
Without wings

by Gail...

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To once again hear the renditions of the
songbird’s morning trill as leaves upon the
trees tremble in triad tones within the
moorside tempest; and lyrical waves in unsung
meadows symbolically crash against limestone walls
and telephone wires in viola whines
an archaic symphony.

© Harry J Horsman 2022...

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the pharaohs phallus
          mummified stiff as a board
               tut tut naughty boy

By
David Kavanagh


True story this, when they opened Tutankhamuns 
Sarcophagus, Imagine their bewilderment to 
find King Tut's mummy, and his symbolically 
embalmed erect phallus
Perhaps this is what Lord Carnarvon thought...

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it so came to pass
that bliss magnetism 
rose from root to crown
along the spinal column
then dipped over the front
descending all the way down
completing the highway of love
that divides our form into two halves
symbolically depicted as Ardhnarishwara 
reunited as the cosmic egg, Hiranyagarbha 
essence of our Self embodied in organic form...

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Verily do I separate myself from her celestial face; seems thorough that symbolically setting the tune
For a ceremony of God's grace
Acting only by reacting to what's enate 
As if I've been lifted skyward to God's plate 
To rule over all that God's created 
With a kiss from her lips
She seduces all man's passions
No should I miss your warming embrace
I've subdued my passions
A visionaries vitality...

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All along, it’s always spinning!
Spinning always out of control!!
The whole time never falling, but
It never had a soul! Symbolically
Becoming, the meaning of our 
Lives, the spinning top keeps
Spinning, as if it was alive!
So when you feel the
Spiral and not know
Where begins,
Look for
The top
That
Sp
I
N
S
!
…………Let the top spin and fall so you don’t have to!.................

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Slowly the fog comes creeping, then swish
Fog covers all thickening fast 
Swirling, shawl like, curtaining
Sunflower's yellow gone
Wrapped in tapestry
Waiting for sun's
Appearance
Lifted
Veil 

Allegory: Symbolic work:
A work in which the characters
and events are to be understood 
as representing other things 
and symbolically expressing 
a deeper, often spiritual, moral,
or political meaning..

Giorgio...

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It feels like yesterday
but looking at them I know it’s not
as they got so big and so fast too.

I only wish, right now,
that somehow I could turn back clocks.
Yes, that is what I really wish to do.

For there was such joy
each and every time I heard them cry.
Symbolically from the womb of love, they were torn.

I look back and now smile,
as four of the greatest gifts I had received
were given on the days my children were born....

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dogs cower, as craven yellow stars
circle like collars above their heads

fishermen delight in the blue sea air:
spectacular jellyfish, tentacles dangling

a big kettle of popcorn symbolically popping
revolutionary “shots heard round the world”

one wish wands, sparkle in fairies’ hands
like sand in an hourglass, embers tick tock

rockets move the night air in concentric circles.
playful children, eyes ignited, break out in raucous laughter...

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