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A Deeper ReflectionI look into a mirror,
Do I like what I see?
Staring at my conscience,
Reflecting back at me.
Inside of this mirror, there’s always more.
So don’t just look, at what’s lying on the shore.
...
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Categories:
symbolism, beautiful, character, deep, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Hire a KeyThe queen has all the power
while foot soldiers goad the king
though he maybe important
the church ahead of hymn
as too crusading bishops
diagonally move to sing
the knights gallant in battle
before a fall within
the castle's rabble- rousers
encircled...
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Categories:
symbolism, conflict, courage, games, power,
Form: Rhyme
Surviving the Storm
Thrust within,
I could not focus.
Lights sizzled,
blistering
and slashing the jagged sky
with vile lightening.
Your visage
materialized
from nowhere,
beckoning,
guiding my path with sure wake
safely to the shore.
You became
my anchored buoy.
Just for you
I inhale.
My heart will always seek berth
in your...
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Categories:
faith, love, storm, symbolism,
Form: Shadorma
TetherIs there any point
to please thine eye
if not reciprocated
with a resonance more
...
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Categories:
symbolism, devotion, love, metaphor, romance,
Form: Free verse
if the sea ran dryif the sea ran dry
every soul would know it
die; then be noticed...
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Categories:
symbolism, absence, betrayal, death, loneliness,
Form: Haiku
SkullsSkulls and roses, skulls and crossbones, most of people who died alone.
Skulls in corpses, skulls in the living, ‘til they decompose, protection is what they’re giving.
Protect the mind, that tissue so soft, but...
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Categories:
religion, remember, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
DisconnectedDisconnected
In a world woven with wires,
I stand still,
a stranger in the hum of voices,
the glow of screens reflecting
a pale loneliness against my skin.
Friendships flicker like dying flames,
texts sent into the void,
echoes of laughter lost
in the...
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Categories:
symbolism, inspirational, poetry, poets, spoken
Form: Free verse
Felix CulpaSome time ago, when we were free to do;
ten I was, or twelve?
I walked along a misty lane to school
the etched patterns of ferns and trees
on my window when I awoke
...
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Categories:
symbolism,
Form: Free verse
disorderedam i going crazy?
those words will consistently ring out in my head
like a bomb that has just struck land
sometimes it feels like you're walking on eggshells
forever i am labelled as i am unbalanced
unstable
my head is...
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Categories:
symbolism, abuse, child abuse, depression,
Form: I do not know?
Elegy of Divine Cross
I
The bell the Town Courier want to toll
To salute the day of reckoning in Getham City
Is now on the neck of the scary-witty cat her paws like dragon
Saints, Publicans looking on at each other nose
Of...
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Categories:
christian, devotion, life, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Elegy of Divine Cross
I
The bell the Town Courier want to toll
To salute the day of reckoning in Getham City
Is now on the neck of the scary-witty cat her paws like dragon
Saints, Publicans looking on at each other nose
Of...
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Categories:
christian, devotion, life, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
New ChangeA little bit flashy
A little bit dainty,
Who cares about consistency
If effect turns stimulatory.
Intellectuals surrendering
To timely electrifying pleasure,
Intoxicated memory
Forgets everything they assure.
What about all those years-
The men behind you struggled to reform
What about all those...
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Categories:
symbolism, education, encouraging, endurance, pain,
Form: Rhyme
The Cruelty Of WealthWealth, a siren's charm, alluring and bright
A pillow's softness, a thimble's gentle might
It provides for earthly needs, a feast to behold
Yet, in its depths, a darkness unfolds
Oh, wealth! Where is thy dominion?
Poverty's cold grasp awaits,...
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Categories:
symbolism, allusion, hyperbole, imagery, irony,
Form: Blank verse
Felix culpaWhat if..?
The snake had not deceived the first human to eat that apple.
Like animals—naked, primitive, homeless, wanderers—
We would still have been only the salts of the earth in Eden.
Eating all fruits except those of knowledge...
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Categories:
symbolism, humanity, imagery, imagination, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Searching for Rainbows
The Trail of Tears was in men’s thoughts before 1492.
Almost four-hundred years cleared the Cherokee-Selma path.
Blood dries up like rain.
Stains fade from red to black.
Rainbows are present only in discarded kaleidoscopes.
Czars scattered the seed of...
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Categories:
symbolism, betrayal, change, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Symbolism Poems
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