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She-my sunShe is distant but warm,
She doesn’t need to be spoken to,
or be touched to be known.
I’ve travelled great distances in my life,
But she’s the only constant I’ve known.
I see her everyday through all...
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Categories:
symbolism, appreciation, beautiful, sun, sunshine,
Form: Free verse
Typical Destiny In the journey of life, when paths seem unclear,
Take up the book, let wisdom appear.
With stick in hand, carve your own way,
Through challenges and trials, come what may.
Luck may falter, but faith holds strong,
With pen...
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Categories:
symbolism, beautiful, books, confidence, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
A Touch O' LightMine o’ quick heart, 'neath powdered mist o’ light,
Before dawn's chance to sway thy command,
Hold me here, still, delay this cloak o’ night,
And return my love with thy gentlest hand.
Tell the story o’...
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Categories:
symbolism, devotion, emotions, longing, love,
Form: Sonnet
Do It AnywaysThe wind blows in any desired style
Any day every once in a while,
Man's comments to it are just a riffraff pile.
The sun will give you some chilli sensation,
With no fear for it needs to take...
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Categories:
symbolism, character, growth, inspiration, remember,
Form: Carpe Diem
The SymphonySometimes, always,
& rather unsurprisingly,
I start to wonder…
why...my heart cannot explain,
the corporeal notes,
of music,
in just a droplet,
of rain.
...
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Categories:
symbolism, confusion, extended metaphor, introspection,
Form: Free verse
DarkDark is the light in us all
Death destruction and poverty consumes all
But there is a light
A light so bright
A light in us all
In a world full of complexities
The light seems to fade
Humanity in...
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Categories:
humanity, mystery, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
The Conversation of SleepI dreamt only of green alkanet.
One by one,
I'd see another,
mutilate my view,
talking in tongues of five,
as they destroy the delicate balance,
between this world and new.
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Categories:
symbolism, dark, dream, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
A Rose's WisdomBeauty hides beneath
open yourself up to it
but beware its thorns...
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Categories:
symbolism, conflict, dark, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Haiku
The Two WitnessesGod spoke to men in visions and dreams.
Their words are like unpolluted streams,
offering dying souls life-giving drink,
and giving hope to those on the brink.
These witnesses, both the old and the new,
were written down by a...
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Categories:
symbolism, christian, extended metaphor, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
The Great Indian KitchenIn my kitchen's grasp, where spices hop free,
Whispers of our memories, in each recipe.
Khichdi's humble grace, a bow to our roots,
In grains and lentils, tradition assent.
Herbal notes linger, a fragrant ballet, a scenic design.
As...
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Categories:
symbolism, culture, family, grandmother, hindi,
Form: Free verse
A Paradox of Time Reborn
The sun, resplendent in its blazing might,
Burns fiercely o'er a barren, lifeless waste,
A desert dry and vast where earth is scorched
By searing radiation, deathly bright.
No sign of life but one lone phoenix flies,
Soaring precarious, close...
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Categories:
symbolism, allegory, creation, death, destiny,
Form: Blank verse
I See TremorsI see tremors…
dancing between the dust,
as the sunlight hits your hands,
they recite their symphony, of silence,
for me…
from a distant land.
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Categories:
symbolism, beauty, dance, deep, imagery,
Form: Lyric
Sterling
Shall there be a soothing rest within the arms of a shallow grove, from whence the aches of an early dawn arise in its presence, as a burning flame before the veiled eyes of a...
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Categories:
love, symbolism, truth,
Form: Free verse
The flame in the heartDon't give them power
I, the fuel to my fire
Can walk out through dark...
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Categories:
symbolism, love, motivation, passion, pride,
Form: Haiku
The Stain Crusaders
"The Stain Crusaders"
Plath left the pages long ago
and Bacharach’s Blue-on-Blue
is an ineffectual softer numb-shade-of-Blue
dear green green Anthropocene
this much is true
with all the I love you’s
the wandering crusaders
are far far removed
sitting atop their soap boxes
sudsing...
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Categories:
blue, dark, green, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Symbolism Poems
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