There is a difference between symbolism and imagery.

1. Images exist in their own right, as simple colors on canvas, or as the pictures we draw in our mind when reading descriptive verse.
2. Symbolism is the mind's interpretation of the image into another context.

The image of a flower symbolizes (to most people) the beauty of springtime. To some extent, florists will see a flower as a symbol of money, because that is the form into which they would translate the physical form of a flower. To an allergic individual, the image may represent suffering.

There can be an emotional reaction to the flower. Or, on the mental level, one might analyze it in terms of its species, the vibrational rate of its colors, and so on. Or we might see the flower simply as a flower.

Every interpretation is correct.

Before I added the chorus of this lyric -- the third section of the poem -- the words were just descriptions, and I did not read them on another level. How do you want to see them? Every meaning is right, in its own light.

There's a man growing sunshine
In an inlet by the bay.
At dawn, he casts it on the waves,
And it sails away.

A girl is growing flowers
Like plans she's had in mind.
And every one blossoms
In time.

Every dream I've seen
And every thing I've done
Is alive in the light
Of its own sun.

A man is chanting,
And every word turns true.
Soft colors blossom
In a hue.

Painters and singers
Play in love's embrace.
And the landscape rises
To a higher place.

Every dream I've seen
And every thing I've done
Is alive in the light
Of its own sun.