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Categories:
allegory, bible, christian, irony,
Form: Grook
THE Drought -Prickly are the waters drought
no more do drops collected
gallons of waters evaporated
once was a lake than a pond
now it's not even a fishing hole
dust rise up we're vapors once vented
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Categories:
absence, allegory, allusion, assonance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Lavender Lays DeadNight and day, I have wept,
for the lavender lays dead,
& my locks have disintegrated,
down to the screw.
What am I to do?
When all hope is lost,
except extend my apology,
& find another place,
to pull me out...
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Categories:
allegory, death, deep, flower,
Form: Free verse
i guess i'm not az much solomon.
yellow flower blooms
'guiled poet takes one flower
from all uv the blooms...
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Categories:
allegory,
Form: Haiku
Life's soundtrack
Awesome sunset, silence talks, only the birds' soundtrack on.
A huge red sun sinks into the sea, the horizon is the artist
painting different pictures to admire. What a magnificent show our nature offers to our...
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Categories:
allegory, beach, beauty, bird,
Form: Free verse
day light
Whence
day lighted Anthem(s)
in metamorphosis for one Haiku included
Jackson Street in the city of Edinburg ,
even though a Duke outlook
in Cans,
Sardin
Oil blessing in assimilating such and so!
Why Haiku? Why...
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Categories:
allegory,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
adventure, allegory, fish, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Soul River
Lemmings run in tunnels deep,
The obsessed won't let the phantoms sleep,
But I can't stampede with brainwashed sheep,
I plunged into the soul river.
Leaving the crowd was hard to do
My heart, deceived, believed it knew,
But I left...
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Categories:
allegory, culture, integrity, perspective,
Form: Lyric
A Brief History of the Snake
The snake sidles up to Eve
from God she soon seeks reprieve
With us yet, it slithers into Halls of Power
injects...
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Categories:
allegory, creation, crush, history,
Form: Couplet
Leave Me HereI wander alone at dawn,
dreaming over cobblestones,
when light strikes four, fifty three,
uninvited, I have little choice,
than to still and see,
muzzled, while my night,
is stripped of wonder, and,
my sun declares,
supposedly,
I'm free.
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Categories:
allegory, dream, freedom, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Oh Christ! The Train's a Comin'
Categories:
allegory,
Form: Free verse
Black bird
Dead
petals
dropping down
with the soft wind
~fall on a black bird~.
It sings nicely
admiring
Its chicks'
life....
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, beauty, bird,
Form: Ninette
Love on the rocks
Another sunset kissed the ocean before going to sleep.
Another moon to welcome lovers to meet.
Saturday night, love promises under the dancing lights.
Awakenings next to a stranger
happens when somebody lies. Perhaps the wine on the rocks...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, destiny, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
allegory, analogy,
Form: Questionku
Tracing PaperHunted.
By the humanity of her movement.
Still.
Then slow…Calculated.
Tracing each step of damage,
left in her wake.
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Categories:
allegory, dark, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Allegory Poems
Definition | What is Allegory in Poetry?
Poems Related to Allegory
figuration, parable, emblem, myth, symbol, story, tale, moral, fable, symbolism, apologue, symbolization, typification,