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Symbolism Poems | Examples of Symbolism Poetry

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Everything in your house is worth something -how bad do you need it?...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism,
Form: Monoku



I am Lost-contaminated
It’s hard for me to differentiate between Truth and lies.. it was hard to come to terms with the facts But right now, the fact is I’m lost I thought I was smarter i thought...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, deep, depression, light, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
A False Combination
Sometimes I don't know you, Other times I don't know me, Sometimes, you are just a stranger crossing the sky's limit, Other times, you are my dearest brethren. You don't look beyond the surface, My perceived height is nothing but...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, emotions, fate, heartbroken, irony,
Form: Free verse
I Am Made Of Rotton Roots
I am made of rotten roots flush with dead skeleton leaves when touched, crumble but moss grows on my rib-cage bones and mold covers my heart where there’s moisture so something must live in me yet...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, deep, depression, endurance, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Are There Days Without Darkness
Do others often ask themselves, " Are there days without darkness... when another storm shows fierceness? Has hope dimmed for selfish reasons? " And the living pay little attention to events, although they grin and appear to be perplexed; and...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, corruption, evil, fate, freedom,
Form: Lyric



The Fly
I sat and watched as it continually banged it's head into the window pane, that fly. My cat sits on the cill and swipes out at the fly as it buzzes around his head, But he missed...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, crazy, emotions, feelings, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Walking in The Sky
"Walking in The Sky" When you caught me up in your Blue Sky I considered madness IS preferrable in some circumstances; I walked towards you in the astral and found myself falling “walk across the water to me “,...Read the rest...
Categories: metaphor, muse, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Revealed
In Battery Point, two centuries stayed Settlers’ cottage, compact, sandstone stoic Paired attic windows see civility made From...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, animal, april, business, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Psychological Warfare
A very fine line... Pulling and pushing. Certain or not? Real or fake? Tangible or imaginary? Confused or sure? Do or don't? A storm. An oasis. A tsunami. A river. A whirlwind. A beach. To trust or not? To give or to take? Make a choice or Bury the head in...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Wind of the past
The autumn that had remained monotonous- For many decades, Now tears and takes pieces of hearts, Along with its old leaves, flowers, Leaving a nostalgic scent behind. Every preceding winter that...Read the rest...
Categories: nostalgia, seasons, symbolism,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Charlotte
Charlotte You were smiling at me As you were looking right Through him Or were you Looking right through me As you were smiling at him? False subtleties From dew to dust From dawn to dusk All the things that you have...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, analogy, anger, betrayal, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fire
Fire I may be a deity, I do not know, People talk around me But have never told me so. They gather all around me,like a holy worship ring,and stare into my depths..I am mesmerizing. My powers are...Read the rest...
Categories: fire, god, symbolism,
Form: Personification
Harvest of Wisdom
Before you get married, my child There are a few things you should remember The most important being To always tend to your farm You should look for a tool That makes you sing for all its worth That doesn't break...Read the rest...
Categories: farm, meaningful, symbolism, truth,
Form: Didactic
Cut it apart
Disjointed, dissection. Like that which came before. Dissection like that which, came before disjointed. Like that which disjointed, dissection came before. Like that which came before. Dissection, disjointed. ...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Gilgamesh
The house used to be warm when they were all home Not the house is gone and I'm all alone A stray on the street with no where to go I wish I could tell...Read the rest...
Categories: symbolism, angst, art, dog, loss,
Form: Rhyme

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