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Allegory Poems | Examples of Allegory Poetry

Allegory Poems. Read and share great examples of poetry about allegories. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for allegory.
Rooms to go
O Monami! Fiancé these days! They forgot to pick wrought iron In their unsung Mays! In seasons, they sprinkled In salts they tried, In their secret recipes Even my Clover died! PS. It is still poetry! ...Read the rest...
Categories: age, allegory, april, arabic,
Form: Personification



Premium Member as homily
results may vary when words pursue their quarry people turn wary simple is better even in Dear John letter feelings unfetter angry verbs go rogue no matter how softly spoke estrangements invoke lurking cold as ice gray emptiness can entice psyche pays the price assessing regret of what...Read the rest...
Categories: allegory, anxiety, change, confusion,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member imitating life
much of what's behind lies buried within the mind revised or maligned boiling down this life using memory as knife won't halt inner strife trying to avoid staring straight into the void ego was destroyed filling empty lines outside truth's murky confines too soon undermines join the...Read the rest...
Categories: allegory, change, imagery, life,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: allegory, creation, death, destiny,
Form: Blank verse
a barron coast
looking into the horizon I see things as they once were all drawn in sharp colors and defined lines now fading as time travels from one point to the next I see all in my dusty history images tattered and bled...Read the rest...
Categories: allegory, allusion, angst, creation,
Form: Free verse



Not the crow's nest
. lady that thar...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, allegory, crazy, devotion,
Form: Romanticism
bend o' the gunnel
. that's the skull and ...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, allegory, passion,
Form: Romanticism
off wit the slops
. noth'n sounds more sweeter than the jamaican windz help'n the salty wet slap 'gainst mine ...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, allegory, beautiful, blue,
Form: Romanticism
her's slip'd on she in mate's slops
. Yarrrrr ...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, allegory, character, courage,
Form: Romanticism
ephemeral
Always wrote about everything but myself It's difficult to be honest although ephemeral I'm failing at everything I try because of you I can't keep my focus when you're lingering The back of my mind has been caged off...Read the rest...
Categories: 12th grade, allegory, angel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blooming
Light finds its way to come through, after a nightmare at night heart beats fast. My dog is lying next to me, I open the blinds another morning to see. Sadness invades me, you are not with me. Alone in the bed, clouds and...Read the rest...
Categories: allegory, allusion, best friend,
Form: Free verse
KALI MAA: THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU SCREAM
I swear to tell you the truth Nothing but the truth But your heart is so feeble And your spirit so brittle A whiff of it will make you syncope A little tyrant I am glad...Read the rest...
Categories: allegory, allusion, dark, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Nymph'd by the Spring
. Hern purty bedroom eyne glinting blue eye'd mine torso's thump echoed az up her's shouted out the Spring hern gray lock'd twixt mine...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, allegory, crazy, crush,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Ship of Fools
On a ship of fools without direction, Along a circuitous trajection, Sailors from every land and nation Drift not by chart, but hallucination, And their lofty voices, at once speaking A bit louder than the planks...Read the rest...
Categories: allegory, environment, humanity, political,
Form: Rhyme
Man in thuh garden
. In the garden man belongs ...Read the rest...
Categories: allegory, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Specific Types of Allegory Poems

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