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No Looking Back
P r o c r a s t i n a t i o n
Seems doggedly determined
To anchor me...
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Categories:
allegory, motivation, symbolism,
Form: Alliteration
Solus An owl descends
from cloudy grey skies,
Dropping alongside
a single tear.
It dares not speak to the owner -
only keeping company.
Quiet, solitary company.
It knows what tears are –
for when alone,
the tears of its mother skies above
are all...
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Categories:
symbolism, cry, loneliness, solitude, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Something Afar
Cobwebs hung in dust of stars
the moon a cracked pale marble
balanced on a razor’s edge
Pools of sun rays n midnight bars
Phantom voices call me, from afar
Things seen; springs ring echoes
Fade as headlights blaze...
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Categories:
symbolism, allegory, angst, art, dark,
Form: Free verse
FallThere’s a girl, her name’s Michelle,
She hides her heart away
Behind the lights, the masks, the roles
And the plays,
Afraid to love, Afraid to break
Her smile is a mask,
And her tears form a lake
You see her upon...
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Categories:
symbolism, celebrity, courage, cry, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
2024-7-29Day after day for decades, away the ocean waves wash the Apostles pieces by pieces.
Hourd by hours some projects drain people's time and energy bits by bits.
Now, only 6+ Apostles left standing there smiley.
Who...
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Categories:
symbolism, devotion, emotions, feelings, nature,
Form: Free verse
RosesIt’s almost laughable how often I’m found rotting inside myself.
Knees curled to my chest, lungs expanding and hesitating.
Sobs racking my body in violent tremors.
Silent.
Exhaling jagged breaths with trembling fingers.
You should...
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Categories:
symbolism, anger, depression, family, heart,
Form: Free verse
Before they goCatch the waves
Before they go
Catch the waves
Gentle, quiet.
Catch them quick
Dabble, ripple in them
And set asail –
On your journey afresh
Before they rage
In mountainous forms
Of dark fury
And fiery froths –
Before they rock the
Ship asunder –
Devouring, consuming
In their...
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Categories:
symbolism, allusion, imagery, meaningful, sea,
Form: Free verse
WallI lie down in my four-poster bed,
facing the pale yellow wall.
The same that I see above,
behind my headboard,
opposite me.
I drown in the sickly pale.
I dare not turn around
to...
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Categories:
symbolism, extended metaphor, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Free verse
The Other Half of MeMany years ago, I’d been seeing
My whole life in front of me.
Like a tale, I could tell how it’d end,
By simply looking at how it begins.
Thinking I’d been born this way,
Without any luck.
With no other...
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Categories:
symbolism, growth, introspection, longing, loss,
Form: Narrative
Silver snowflakessilver snowflakes shine
showing seasonal secrets
slumbers stayed somber...
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Categories:
symbolism, imagery, seasons, sleep, snow,
Form: Haiku
Purely psychosomaticWhere liveth preen for empathy
Drew ragged,
Poor sawbones perscribed
"where in pain warrants lithe deformities"
Swimming,
Loathed from the east
Collared,
Hung dry,
Pruned by the sweat of a racing night
When in dawn's bleached seamstress
Sought a grim vow
Erelong...
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Categories:
symbolism, absence, deep, depression, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The Hound of SleepI see thee yet, mine eyes on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Thus to mine eyes, o'er th'one half world 'pon the sacred curtained sleep,
Seek thou sure and firm, set stepp'd earth nigh summon...
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Categories:
symbolism, blessing, deep, depression, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Tangerine SkyLost and floundering in an unwholesome fog,
time stood as if in freeze-framed mental log;
roiling clouds swirled and hovered beneath the sun,
Tangerine streaks sketched on the horizon.
Amazing was this view and it...
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Categories:
symbolism, angel, appreciation, beauty, depression,
Form: Rhyme
To Be A PoemIf to be a sonnet is to be vain, then to be a sonnet is to be a friend.
If to be a limerick is to be laughed at, then to be a limerick is...
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Categories:
symbolism, writing,
Form: Free verse
Lull
Bitter winter.
Thief of warm pleasure.
Looming forever...and a cozy day.
No... Please stay!
At least until you've had your say.
In your own frigid way.
Carried in shades of slate.
Against arid blue skyline.
This must be where love hides.
Until the spring...
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Categories:
earth, nature, planet, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Symbolism Poems
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