Best Token Poems
The Last Token
Be the halo of moon in a starless sky
Be the angel of smiles for tearful eyes
A beacon of hope in despair of grief
A lighthouse for the souls lost at sea
A gift of rose to lovelorn heartbeats
Be a rainbow that gleams opaque arc
An echo of peace from the hills of war
A blush of new dawn...
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Categories:
token, giving, perspective,
Form:
Verse
A Token Gesture
It was a token gesture
A hand he offered me
Emerging from my cab
Stormy night in the city
I didn’t know his name
But I’ll not forget his face
For he helped me gently
To a safer place
Blue eyes and thick black hair
He stepped in the rain-filled gutter
To close the taxi door
But not a word did he utter
Just a simple kindness
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Categories:
token, appreciation, light,
Form:
Rhyme
Richard's Request- the Angel Token
Richard Lamoureux has not forgotten me during my absence. He faithfully visits my older writes and leaves lovely encouraging comments. While I'm busy working on my thesis, I got this notification on this poem.
Richard's comment: I felt like I read it for the first time. This is such a special piece Eileen. You should...
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Categories:
token, angel, universe,
Form:
Free verse
The Last Token
I was five years old when the war was over
August, 1945, and my daddy sent word
He was on his way home from Guadalcanal.
Grandma was already preparing a feast
For the family to celebrate his homecoming.
Momma took her last ration token from the box
She kept high on the kitchen counter cabinet...
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Categories:
token, father son, memory, remember,
Form:
Narrative
The Token- Angel Contest
I see you bent low
Your head in your hands
Tears dropping on the table cloth
The heavy sighs that no one can hear
Fill my ear
Even past the wall
Between eternity and finite time
I hear
I see
Your guardian angel is near
My orders from the throne
To protect you from harm
Physical….spiritual
To guard your steps
Yet...I see you have not walked
For many...
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Categories:
token, angel, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Timeless Token
If rain poured
in susurrating sounds
of unshed tears,
will ungrateful dialects
change their insincere
expressions of speech,
or will this unheard
voice forever be
lost as echoes within
glass walls,
where lilac-feathered
letters of farewell
written in red diamonds,
illustrate illusive
narratives of an onyx heart
haunted by
holographic
harmonies,
in glitters...
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Categories:
token, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
A Token of Love
A loving gift of appreciation
all that you have done
throughout the times spent
out of others, you were the one
the person that saw me through
the one that understood
the person that cared the most
the one that showed support
a gift of love
a gift of appreciation
a reward that is so genuine
because you deserve the best
thanks for the great times
being so...
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Categories:
token, beautiful, giving, meaningful, woman,
Form:
Free verse
The Last Token Chance
So many times he’s needed a friend,
his wine only lasts until
the bottle reaches the end,
so many days in ruin
following the trend, those lost in hours
indulging in proof of the Scottish blend,
yet one day
at the crossroads he did linger,
four signs of directions
his mind forced into reflections,
lifts a hand and points a finger
remembers the days, before
those of...
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Categories:
token, addiction, love,
Form:
Rhyme
A Token of Troth
yellow ribbon tightly tied
on a stem of an oak tree
'tis a token of troth pledged
by two soon to wed.
Writing Challenge - Dodoitsu - Poetry Contest (Winner: 1st Place)
Sponsored by Constance La France
Date written: 10/02/2020...
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Categories:
token, imagery, love, romance, tree,
Form:
Dodoitsu
Token
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Token
by Patrick Cornwall on Friday, January 20, 2012 at 10:08am
He was the last of his kind and it was known.
Some dated him one hundred years and he had style.
Christmas was his time and the rest of the year he felt nothing.
But Thanksgiving came and some cared and tried to help.
They came in their vans with...
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Categories:
token, funny, old, thanksgiving, old,
Form:
Free verse
The Token Poetry Editor
THE TOKEN POETRY EDITOR
Sexless, unloved, this poem tycoon
Reads the heart’s treasures as the brain's boon,
And riven with erudition, explores the spaces
Where uninvited couplets kill the places
With talk of probity and probability.
This mortgaged toad of honesty gives glee
To those who find in truth a rash offence
And save their daily lies in deference
To a lone columnist like...
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Categories:
token, conflict, culture, gender, identity,
Form:
Sonnet
Token of Regret
Sparks fly, flames ignite
intoxicated passion
follies of greenness.
Haste vows in wishes
rapid change adaptation
birth of an angel.
Smoldered brawl outburst
pen scribbles by gavel's call
Fire sizzles then drown.
Comes winter anew
tears of the lonely angel
token of regret
Dovey Annie
(This is my first time writing a Haiku poem. It is raw and lack shine, but hope you guys will enjoy.)...
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Categories:
token, angst, life
Form:
Haiku
Last Token
my mother had two tokens she never parted with -
a book containing music notations,
and a flute, made of brass.
her favourite book had her name handwritten on the cover,
and the unadorned flute had a name engraved...
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Categories:
token, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
Token of Appreciation
For morning of day night of Danish wind tone beneath the grains of solomon steps
Travler journey note or notice is more then most can take of the meaning of found what is meant
Of good day.
More over any over time and age of grace of day has more meaning each every day.
(How)
For most a understanding...
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Categories:
token, art, love,
Form:
Free verse
Death's Token Veil
solemn dirge wailing
black-cloaked pall bearers enter
innocent child smiles...
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Categories:
token, death
Form:
Senryu