Symbolism Poems
#symbolism
Here you'll find poems which use symbols to represent intentions or ideas. Symbols include metaphors and similes. A range of poetry where symbols evoke images matching the tone and meaning of the poems.
TheOralizer
Poem Published
7th Nov 2024 2:07pm
7th Nov 2024 2:07pm
10 COMMANDMENTS FOR POETS
1. THOU SHALL write to please self.
2. THOU SHALL not be a slave to rules.
3. THOU SHALL not be afraid of rejection.
4. THOU SHALL not expect every poem to be perfect.
5. THOU SHALL read the works of others.
6. THOU SHALL always be looking for ideas.
7. THOU SHALL not confuse inspiration with perspiration.
8. THOU SHALL remember writing poetry makes you a poet.
9. THOU SHALL not be a plagiarist.
10. THOU SHALL not quit!
2. THOU SHALL not be a slave to rules.
3. THOU SHALL not be afraid of rejection.
4. THOU SHALL not expect every poem to be perfect.
5. THOU SHALL read the works of others.
6. THOU SHALL always be looking for ideas.
7. THOU SHALL not confuse inspiration with perspiration.
8. THOU SHALL remember writing poetry makes you a poet.
9. THOU SHALL not be a plagiarist.
10. THOU SHALL not quit!
#emotional
#metaphor
#StreamOfConsciousness
#symbolism
#uplifting
95 reads
13 Comments
oldmanG
Poem Published
25th Oct 2024 4:45am
25th Oct 2024 4:45am
Teeth
Alien Predator within me
My teeth are sinking into my core
My tail is razor sharp but predator has weapons
Teeth to teeth Jaw to jaw pull us both under me
Going down the depths of misery
Still clamped jaw to jaw and soul to devil
Stretcher lifts me up takes me
Back down where I started in me
Eyes are closed I feel my sins
Building a coffin of my deeds
Predator alive alien within me breathing
We are predators of innocence
Get you close enough to sink in
My...
My teeth are sinking into my core
My tail is razor sharp but predator has weapons
Teeth to teeth Jaw to jaw pull us both under me
Going down the depths of misery
Still clamped jaw to jaw and soul to devil
Stretcher lifts me up takes me
Back down where I started in me
Eyes are closed I feel my sins
Building a coffin of my deeds
Predator alive alien within me breathing
We are predators of innocence
Get you close enough to sink in
My...
#aliens
#myself
#shadows #symbolism
#shadows #symbolism
48 reads
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BaldyBrown
Poem Published
24th Oct 2024 6:25am
24th Oct 2024 6:25am
Seeds
The bee and the flower, how could either know
that because of their little dance the world lives?
Writing words is like waxing one’s carrot, to borrow from a colorful George Carlin metaphor. One sees something and it sets off a spark in the loins. What are words on a page but the end result of the same spark? and what is a sperm cell that is produced without first being a very pleasant hit of dopamine .
This is our process, displayed through a billion variations on the same life-giving theme and force.
But for every word written in this single suspended...
that because of their little dance the world lives?
Writing words is like waxing one’s carrot, to borrow from a colorful George Carlin metaphor. One sees something and it sets off a spark in the loins. What are words on a page but the end result of the same spark? and what is a sperm cell that is produced without first being a very pleasant hit of dopamine .
This is our process, displayed through a billion variations on the same life-giving theme and force.
But for every word written in this single suspended...
#philosophical
#prose
#StreamOfConsciousness #symbolism
#StreamOfConsciousness #symbolism
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BaldyBrown
Poem Published
24th Oct 2024 4:56am
24th Oct 2024 4:56am
Fruit Jar Fileflies
I see words, and they see me
It’s true they are sentient, quite
But they will never see
my world through my loins
They keep floating by, ever speaking
never ceasing like tinnitus to my transient sight
Like orphans somewhere never
Their little fingers grope as they look at me squarely
Speaking barely, “nurse me into your light”
just before they are gone forever
So much needless loss
I spill my precious sperms on the ground
and kill my darlings before they become darlings
Their lot is to die in the silence...
It’s true they are sentient, quite
But they will never see
my world through my loins
They keep floating by, ever speaking
never ceasing like tinnitus to my transient sight
Like orphans somewhere never
Their little fingers grope as they look at me squarely
Speaking barely, “nurse me into your light”
just before they are gone forever
So much needless loss
I spill my precious sperms on the ground
and kill my darlings before they become darlings
Their lot is to die in the silence...
#rhyming
#symbolism
68 reads
3 Comments
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
23rd Oct 2024 10:16pm
23rd Oct 2024 10:16pm
SACRED LOVE
WOMAN TO MAN AND MAN TO WOMAN 💞 From the deepness of your heart have you ever had a sacred love, that fell into your laps that just makes you feel like a good thing. JUST 🤫happen to change your whole entire perspective. 🤫 For sure no one is sent to you, by chance or accident, yet sometimes that's not true. 😔 For sure actions speak louder than words, for wouldn't you rather have truth of telling me just show me. 🤔 Do you have a sense of real commitment with consistency, that has real communications skills to articulate. Your thoughts and insight and...
#dialogue
#emotional
#philosophical
#StreamOfConsciousness
#symbolism
98 reads
4 Comments
BaldyBrown
Poem Published
21st Oct 2024 7:42am
21st Oct 2024 7:42am
Worms
What-if will tomorrow be what-is, maybe
Yesterday and tomorrow have become lovers today
because they know they can never marry
Tomorrow’s today is no man’s bride
And yesterday’s worm becomes who we thot
today and forever, until we’re not
The earthworm drinks its love from the soil
and the cankerworm gratifies itself slowly
For this I have learned to be most grateful.
Each of us thinks we decide
but is that right? No, it is this way
because the worms say it is so
Yesterday and tomorrow have become lovers today
because they know they can never marry
Tomorrow’s today is no man’s bride
And yesterday’s worm becomes who we thot
today and forever, until we’re not
The earthworm drinks its love from the soil
and the cankerworm gratifies itself slowly
For this I have learned to be most grateful.
Each of us thinks we decide
but is that right? No, it is this way
because the worms say it is so
#earth
#philosophical
#StreamOfConsciousness #symbolism
#StreamOfConsciousness #symbolism
50 reads
2 Comments
ThePalestRider
Poem Published
21st Oct 2024 1:00am
21st Oct 2024 1:00am
Exodite's Clarity of Stolen Stars
In circles thrice entwined
By sacred numbers torn
The Nine and Seven bind
Where stars are now forlorn
Unholy shapes are cast
In Fivefold glyphs of woe
The heavens turn at last
And to the Void they go
By crooked angles made
The Six betrays the light
Its secrets now displayed
In patterns bent by night
The stars, devoured whole
In thirteens they collapse
A darkness takes its toll
And snaps their cosmic lapse
The diviner counts the lines
In symbols traced by Three
Their meaning...
By sacred numbers torn
The Nine and Seven bind
Where stars are now forlorn
Unholy shapes are cast
In Fivefold glyphs of woe
The heavens turn at last
And to the Void they go
By crooked angles made
The Six betrays the light
Its secrets now displayed
In patterns bent by night
The stars, devoured whole
In thirteens they collapse
A darkness takes its toll
And snaps their cosmic lapse
The diviner counts the lines
In symbols traced by Three
Their meaning...
#astronomy
#dark
#death
#symbolism
#universe
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0 Comments
Anne-Ri999
Poem Published
17th Oct 2024 10:07am
17th Oct 2024 10:07am
Vetrnaetr, winter nights beginning
once more
I become her
silver silken haired
as she swims turmoil tides
diadems from dew
bend their fragile heads
floating in lunar light
cosmic clams open
blood of my brethren
sea faring
one eyed
as last leaf leaves
from her torso
earth bore
a nameless child
vespers
whisper
vinter
for tonight
my bride
is winter
copyrights © owned by Rianne 2024
all rights...
I become her
silver silken haired
as she swims turmoil tides
diadems from dew
bend their fragile heads
floating in lunar light
cosmic clams open
blood of my brethren
sea faring
one eyed
as last leaf leaves
from her torso
earth bore
a nameless child
vespers
whisper
vinter
for tonight
my bride
is winter
copyrights © owned by Rianne 2024
all rights...
#spiritual
#symbolism
99 reads
2 Comments
doriann_barrere
Dorian
Dorian
Poem Published
13th Oct 2024 8:56pm
13th Oct 2024 8:56pm
Symphonia
Oh, radiant soul that gilds the ebon night,
Like Luna’s beams upon a sable sea,
Thy beauty sets my troubled heart alight,
And binds my soul in chains of ecstasy.
Thine eyes, twin stars that pierce the velvet dark,
Do blaze with fire no earthly flame could hold,
They light my path like some celestial spark,
Yet burn with ice that makes my blood run cold.
O, how thy voice, a symphony divine,
Doth echo through the caverns of my mind!
Like seraphs’ hymns or siren’s wailing whine,
To thee I’m drawn, to madness thou consigned.
...
Like Luna’s beams upon a sable sea,
Thy beauty sets my troubled heart alight,
And binds my soul in chains of ecstasy.
Thine eyes, twin stars that pierce the velvet dark,
Do blaze with fire no earthly flame could hold,
They light my path like some celestial spark,
Yet burn with ice that makes my blood run cold.
O, how thy voice, a symphony divine,
Doth echo through the caverns of my mind!
Like seraphs’ hymns or siren’s wailing whine,
To thee I’m drawn, to madness thou consigned.
...
#emotional
#love
#passion
#romantic
#symbolism
69 reads
0 Comments
neves
Poem Published
5th Oct 2024 2:54am
5th Oct 2024 2:54am
Banquet
There's animals
in strange suits
consuming flesh
like red wine
spilling over
white satin,
I slow my gait
crossing over
noting the pure
gluttony hidden
in every pupil
as they speak
in small jargon
while mouths
slowly begin
to fill up.
in strange suits
consuming flesh
like red wine
spilling over
white satin,
I slow my gait
crossing over
noting the pure
gluttony hidden
in every pupil
as they speak
in small jargon
while mouths
slowly begin
to fill up.
#symbolism
132 reads
1 Comment
ceffs
Creg Effs
Creg Effs
Poem Published
22nd Sep 2024 11:36pm
22nd Sep 2024 11:36pm
The Lamp and the Mirror's Midnight Chat
In silence's hush, where shadows play,
a lamp and mirror conversed one day,
their voices whisper, soft and low,
as midnight's stillness let their secrets grow.
Lamp: "Oh, Mirror, reflector of the soul,
what tales you tell, in silvery role.
Do you see joy or sorrow's sway?"
Mirror: "Both, dear Lamp, in endless array."
Lamp: "I light the path, through darkest night,
guiding dreamers, banishing fright.
But do you think, my glow's enough?"
Mirror: "Your radiance, shines steadfast love." ...
a lamp and mirror conversed one day,
their voices whisper, soft and low,
as midnight's stillness let their secrets grow.
Lamp: "Oh, Mirror, reflector of the soul,
what tales you tell, in silvery role.
Do you see joy or sorrow's sway?"
Mirror: "Both, dear Lamp, in endless array."
Lamp: "I light the path, through darkest night,
guiding dreamers, banishing fright.
But do you think, my glow's enough?"
Mirror: "Your radiance, shines steadfast love." ...
#dialogue
#symbolism
99 reads
2 Comments
Duice
Poem Published
8th Sep 2024 1:25am
8th Sep 2024 1:25am
Deck of Cards (AfterSexDilemma collab)
AfterSexDilemma:
Falling to the ground, Big Bang,
That's the sound.
A big man balancing on a tricycle,
Dancing like a clown.
High in the Sefirot trying not to drop.
Opened my mouth couldn't get it to stop.
Pressure boiling in with hot steam,
Makes my ears pop.
The fish in the sky are going dry.
Start to flip flop.
High on my mind wasting time on the clock.
I'm in decline, getting behind, still in line,
Want fame from the tick tock.
The...
Falling to the ground, Big Bang,
That's the sound.
A big man balancing on a tricycle,
Dancing like a clown.
High in the Sefirot trying not to drop.
Opened my mouth couldn't get it to stop.
Pressure boiling in with hot steam,
Makes my ears pop.
The fish in the sky are going dry.
Start to flip flop.
High on my mind wasting time on the clock.
I'm in decline, getting behind, still in line,
Want fame from the tick tock.
The...
#collaboration
#escape
#satirical
#symbolism
#uplifting
169 reads
2 Comments
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