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.
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
106 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
189 reads
2 Comments
ThePalestRider
Poem Published
6th Sep 2024 5:07pm
6th Sep 2024 5:07pm
Diabolical Oculus
They walk behind with stolen tread
A mirror’s shade of pallid dread
No breath to speak, no eye to see
Yet mock the soul in mockery
They stalk the steps where shadows creep
And haunt the corners dark and deep
With hollow eyes and voiceless call
They mimic life, yet not at all
By Babylon's rivers, dark and wide
They steal the visions prophets cried
Like Jeremiah’s weeping scroll
They haunt the pathways of the soul
They carry words like whispers thin
With hints of wrath and hidden sin
Each gesture wrong, each smile askew...
A mirror’s shade of pallid dread
No breath to speak, no eye to see
Yet mock the soul in mockery
They stalk the steps where shadows creep
And haunt the corners dark and deep
With hollow eyes and voiceless call
They mimic life, yet not at all
By Babylon's rivers, dark and wide
They steal the visions prophets cried
Like Jeremiah’s weeping scroll
They haunt the pathways of the soul
They carry words like whispers thin
With hints of wrath and hidden sin
Each gesture wrong, each smile askew...
#dark
#ghosts
#gothic
#rhyming
#symbolism
146 reads
1 Comment
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
31st Aug 2024 10:57pm
31st Aug 2024 10:57pm
Before there were FIGHTERS
They say that the elders are spiritual souls, that speak with truth and genuine knowledge and wisdom. Yet before there were FIGHTERS they became WARRIORS of society, but yet they had strength and courage and perseverance with honor and respect. With the deepness of understanding of knowledge and wisdom. To serve and protect the emperor's of the empire of a nation. NOW let's fast forward before there were FIGHTERS, they were truly the SAMURAI WARRIORS, raising up from the deepness of the ashes and🔥fires to make a wrong RIGHT. Do you see a similarity from then to now, GOOD VERSES EVIL...
#dialogue
#philosophical
#StreamOfConsciousness
#symbolism
#uplifting
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goodwolf1966
jimmy
jimmy
Poem Published
31st Aug 2024 3:27am
31st Aug 2024 3:27am
giving birth (poetry)
you have
gave birth,
not to
something
new, but
something
old,
you are
the mother,
you are
the father,
each word
is breath,
each line
becomes
age,
now you
place them
out there,
on
their own.
gave birth,
not to
something
new, but
something
old,
you are
the mother,
you are
the father,
each word
is breath,
each line
becomes
age,
now you
place them
out there,
on
their own.
#emotional
#metaphor
#philosophical
#symbolism
#uplifting
111 reads
4 Comments
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
27th Aug 2024 7:23am
27th Aug 2024 7:23am
WHEN A MAN, LOVES A WOMAN
I would like to go back in time when a strong man loves a strong woman, for that was when we had that kind of mental realness of how precious life is worth. For sure there was a sense of real togetherness, in the factor of understanding as that in it's self built, a defense around the very foundation of family. For do you truly remember the rules of thoughts, back then between a man and a woman who were committed, to building, a strong and lasting relationship. There was no lying or creeping on the side thinking, 🤔 that the grass was greener on the other side of the tracks. For sure...
#LifeAsAWriter
#PowerOfWords
#StreamOfConsciousness
#symbolism
#uplifting
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xthan
Poem Published
16th Aug 2024 11:52am
16th Aug 2024 11:52am
What if wonderland
was the underbelly
of the world alice
thought they knew
the rabbit hole
being the spine
they fell through,
alice watches
a pocketwatch
ticking inside
their ribcage
as tea slowly
pumps around
their blue china
thread veins,
further down
alice greets
a posse of
whispering
flower buds
that bloom slowly
singing golden
afternoon in
their stomach,
spinning around
as their blue and
white clothes
puff inside ...
of the world alice
thought they knew
the rabbit hole
being the spine
they fell through,
alice watches
a pocketwatch
ticking inside
their ribcage
as tea slowly
pumps around
their blue china
thread veins,
further down
alice greets
a posse of
whispering
flower buds
that bloom slowly
singing golden
afternoon in
their stomach,
spinning around
as their blue and
white clothes
puff inside ...
#LGBT
#LifeCycle
#transgender
#symbolism
#evolution
177 reads
2 Comments
xthan
Poem Published
13th Aug 2024 9:34pm
13th Aug 2024 9:34pm
The unanswerable
An interesting question
I seem to get asked is:
Do you wear
any other clothes?
you might take this
as somewhat rude
but I always felt
less spoke more
and no, I don't
believe it's due
to age or any
myths we will
often say to
ourselves
I feel life can be
so complicated
so dressing like
it does must have
passed this frame
I have to work with
truth is, I will never
leave without my
sunglasses so
if I forget those I
insist on...
I seem to get asked is:
Do you wear
any other clothes?
you might take this
as somewhat rude
but I always felt
less spoke more
and no, I don't
believe it's due
to age or any
myths we will
often say to
ourselves
I feel life can be
so complicated
so dressing like
it does must have
passed this frame
I have to work with
truth is, I will never
leave without my
sunglasses so
if I forget those I
insist on...
#confessional
#metaphor
#symbolism
133 reads
1 Comment
xthan
Poem Published
13th Aug 2024 3:34pm
13th Aug 2024 3:34pm
Please write me down with your eyes
note the smile I gift
walking across these
white chlorine tiles,
did you believe I was broken
lost in strange text fonts
covered in hateful lies
does my irony upset you
as my scars dance naked
in broad daylight?
does my small frame offend you
as my body ripples water we
happen to share and glide
does my laughter slice
through your pupils
measured in media
sized ignorance?
please write me down
with your eyes,
my scars will
bare a smile
back at you.
walking across these
white chlorine tiles,
did you believe I was broken
lost in strange text fonts
covered in hateful lies
does my irony upset you
as my scars dance naked
in broad daylight?
does my small frame offend you
as my body ripples water we
happen to share and glide
does my laughter slice
through your pupils
measured in media
sized ignorance?
please write me down
with your eyes,
my scars will
bare a smile
back at you.
#LGBT
#metaphor
#transgender #symbolism
#transgender #symbolism
158 reads
2 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
9th Aug 2024 10:41am
9th Aug 2024 10:41am
The Cross
I die every day, not in body but in soul.
Every dawn brings a new absence,
a void that expands,
swallowing the colors of the world.
I walk through streets empty of emotions,
where faces are masks
and the smiles are empty reflections.
The human touch has been lost
replaced with mechanical gestures.
The heart beats, but does not feel,
eyes see, but do not see.
The mind screams in silence
in an endless search for meaning
in a barren land of non-empathy.
I die every day, being reborn in fragments,
trying...
Every dawn brings a new absence,
a void that expands,
swallowing the colors of the world.
I walk through streets empty of emotions,
where faces are masks
and the smiles are empty reflections.
The human touch has been lost
replaced with mechanical gestures.
The heart beats, but does not feel,
eyes see, but do not see.
The mind screams in silence
in an endless search for meaning
in a barren land of non-empathy.
I die every day, being reborn in fragments,
trying...
#apathy
#emotions
#emptiness
#sadness
#symbolism
137 reads
10 Comments
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
6th Aug 2024 7:11pm
6th Aug 2024 7:11pm
IN MY OWN MIND
Here I am as I sit here in this room, filled with nothing but the silents of my own voice and my thoughts. 🤔 For as I continue to release, the deepness of my thoughts and prayers, that are involved in this space without time. ⌚ FOR here I am sitting here watching how much, that it affects my own emotions and feelings. While giving me the opportunity to be able to relax my body and mind and spiritual subconsciousness of my own mind and soul. Yet as I look around me 👁️👁️ my attention is drawn to this crystal ball in case within Glass 🔮 A...
#dialogue
#emotional
#StreamOfConsciousness
#symbolism
#uplifting
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Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
4th Aug 2024 00:11am
4th Aug 2024 00:11am
WHY DOES LOVE GOT TO HURT
IF you knew what you know now 🤔 would you be willing and able, to share your inner thoughts with someone who appears, to be not honest with truth and genuine trust. IF you knew what you know now, that sometimes you may have to be able, to recognize the signs of deception and mistrust. For don't you remember the chaos and drama and the heated arguments, that went on constantly with your our own personal experiences of a relationship. HAVING to deal with the Constance lies with the creeping and cheating in the dark like some shadow trying to hide behind the darkness 🌑 IF YOU...
#emotional
#LifeCycle
#StreamOfConsciousness
#symbolism
#uplifting
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