Miracles are central to religious narratives, serving as signs of divine power, compassion, or validation of a prophet's message. They range from healing and exorcisms in the Gospels to the splitting of the sea in the Quran. In poetry, miracles symbolize the possibility of transcendence, the intrusion of grace into the mundane world, and the victory of faith over despair. Poets use them to question or affirm the supernatural, to highlight wonder, and to explore the boundaries between the possible and the impossible.

Miracles function not merely as supernatural interruptions but as signs (sēmeia in Greek) revealing divine character—compassion in healing, abundance in feeding, liberation in parting seas; in poetry, miracles often appear as moments where the ordinary is transfigured, inviting readers to perceive the sacred woven into daily life rather than as mere spectacle.