Best Symbolising Poems

Scratching their heads 
They look at me
Am I a tree stump
Am I a grotesque face
Inside I am  laughing
I know what I am.

Am a freak of nature
Plus the imaginative mind
Of my master
Stand back 
see the root of me
My ivy hair 
Sightless eyes
Garland of lemons garnish...

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United in isolated collectivity,
Standing erect for reflective solidarity,
Sited to enable individuality,
Symbolising the dead, the loss in totality.

So many damaged people, with so much to remind,
There are tear-laden memories for those left behind.
A tangible grief can still be heard in their voices,
Faltering as they speak out...

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Wreath ring of flowers holding hand-in-hand
Hands in circular unity symbolising eternity 
Eternal is belief in Trinity, Christianity and Christ
Christ a Messiah rising from dead absolving sins

Sins mounting, hoping Christ to descend from Heaven 
Heaven like atmosphere humans creating in Christmas
Christmas, festive season of family reunion...

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The centre of the wedding ring has seen some of the greatest fights
Set off by the wedding bells
Shiny and sparkling, its aesthetics deceiving
By invitation only, 
The contestants are lovers, often newlyweds
Candidates for eternal love and happiness
But finding only bitterness

Insecurity, jealousy, pride, ego and masculinity encircles...

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A wonderful sight to behold.
Your grandeur is more
Than meets the eye.

From absolutely spectacular bloom
Until you've fallen in grace
Meeting earth, withering 
Like snow with an ebb
And flow of gentle breezes.

Symbolising life;
Powerful, exhilarating, sublime 
Yet short lived.
Reminding us how brief our lives are.

Sweet cherry blossom 
Bringing hope,
Also...

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I just love the Christmas tree which we welcome into our homes, 
Symbolising nature, the natural, challenging our views and roams;
Settling in our cosy living rooms, the empire of many, each of us, 
Independent, not asking for anything: assistance, change or fuss.

The Christmas fir tree...

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Make a wish
Raising the bar
A shooting star

The truth
The truth untold 
Watch it unfold

Wings
Wanting to fly
In the sky

Sky's the limit
Dreams don't diminish 
Pushing to finish

Growth
My lost tooth
Symbolising my youth 

Love
Far from platonic
More than euphoric 




12/10/18, Six-Word Couplet Series Encore Poetry Contest,  Mark Toney...

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A speckle of green,
In a vast sea of concrete,
Quite an enchanting scene,
To the eyes a visual treat.

Through a crack in the pavement,
Slowly rises a tiny weed,
Free from all enslavement,
One in a million of its breed.

When I saw it,
My eyes filled with wonder,
Rising tiny bit by...

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Kingfisher courage
symbolising peaceful change
as she stares tranquil...

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It is always the same dream
You and I by the lakeside, watching the sun set
In silence and our bare feet feeling the stream
The fading sun closing a chapter hard to forget

It is always a cloudy and stormy night closing in
Vividly symbolising what losing you implies
Beyond...

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In a world of love I was befittingly born,
A time of respect and appreciation;
In one instinct I became destitute,
With one wrong step I fell into depreciation.

It had nothing to do with love or hate,
Money matters were neither the case;
In one instinct a life was dismantled,
By...

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The colour red has much meaning
it reveals so much energy to express
providing a passion that knows no end
action in the battlefield to victory no less

The lady who's young and so attractive
wears that red outfit makes the lad's click
has got them really under her spell
her lips...

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Blackened. Charred.
Are the blossoms of autumn's acclaimed abundance
No longer dance they in vivid wonderance,
Singed by the frigid frost,
Stand they forlorn and lost.

Barren. Desolate.
Stand the trees.
Marooned in an island of dry leaves.
Wracked by glacial winds
As deep winter imprints.

A few brave bougainvillea
Struggle in straggly strands
To defy winter's...

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he gazed at her face
and immediately juxtaposed two divergent elements,
the sun and the moon
in contrast to her smile that glowed with radiance
just like the sun,
her dine eyes symbolising the moon
held a pinch of melancholic charm in them...

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Your charming verbalising
Your charming whispering
Your charming smiling
Your charming dancing
All are in the train of my dreams.
And they always catching me like fire
Always making my slumber be placid,
Always baking a life without vain,
Always calling my name so sweetly,
Some people say I'm stuck in your love,
And I'll...

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