SYMBOLIC POEMS
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Love - The Symbolic Soul
Love is a journey, only few dispatch it,
Not all can, the dream in life who loves,
Although millions of promises created.
It's fragile like a narrow glass, easily smart,
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Santosh Kumar
Matins
You want to know how I spend my time?
I walk the front lawn, pretending
to be weeding. You ought to know
I'm never weeding, on my knees, pulling
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Louise Gluck
Even When She Walks
Even when she walks she seems to dance!
Her garments writhe and glisten like long snakes
obedient to the rhythm of the wands
by which a fakir wakens them to grace.
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Charles Baudelaire
The Priceless Thing
THOSE are vulgar things we pay for, be they stones for crowns of kings;
While the precious and the peerless are unpriced symbolic things.
Common debts are scored and canceled, weighed and measured out for gold;
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John Boyle O'reilly
The Calm
Brothers, have you observed the calm?
Even the leaves of that symbolic palm
That denotes peace, political and otherwise, are scarcely stirred
By the faintest breath of controversy. Not a word
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Lohengrin: Proem
THE alert and valiant faith that could respond,
Upon life's threshold, to the highest call,
Unquestioning of what might lie beyond,â??
Courage afield and courtesy in hall,
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Emma Lazarus
Dolores
IS he well blessed who has no eyes to scan
The woeful things that shadow all our life:
The latent brute behind the eyes of man,
The place and power gained and stained by strife,
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John Boyle O'reilly
Two Visions
The curtains of the Night were folded
Over suspended sense;
So that the things I saw were moulded
I know not how nor whence.
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Alfred Austin
Illicit
Of what she said to me that nightâ??no matter.
The strange thing came next day.
My brain was full of musicâ??something she played me;
I couldn't remember it all, but phrases of it
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Conrad Potter Aiken
A Voyage To Cythera
My heart was like a bird that fluttered joyously
And glided free among the tackle and the lines!
The vessel rolled along under a cloudless sky
An angel, tipsy, gay, full of the radiant sun.
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Charles Baudelaire
Our Grandmothers
She lay, skin down in the moist dirt,
the canebrake rustling
with the whispers of leaves, and
loud longing of hounds and
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Maya Angelou
The Artist
In story books, when I was very young,
I knew you first, one of the Fairy Race;
And then it was your picture took its place,
Framed in with love's deep gold, and draped and hung
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Madison Julius Cawein
Contrast
Never ever shall the morn deny...
By tick of a clock
In a blink of an eye...
In brisk of a whisker
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Mr. Mohashoi
Dedication
Lord, I have seen at harvest festival
In a white lamp-lit fishing-village church,
How the poor folk, lacking fine decorations,
Offer the first-fruits of their various toils:
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John Collings Squire, Sir
Behram And Eddetma
Against each prince now she had held her own,
An easy victor for the seven years
O'er kings and sons of kings; Eddetma, she
Who, when much sought in marriage, hating men,
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Madison Julius Cawein
La Petite Mort
Straight to the cares of sweetest pleasure,
souls flying from hence to dopamine treasure.
Honey fragrance silver sensation well,
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Robert Rittel
The Illuminati
From the book of revelation the warning is clear,
people will be deceived in worshipping the master of fear.
Predicted in scripture to lead most into loosing their salvation,
when false Gods are the symbol of appreciation.
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Robert Rittel