Short Signifying Poems

Resonance

Is not-knowing

Seeming to know..

An intuitive spontaneity

Often responding to

A flummoxing paradox

Signifying

Nothing......

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A spider web hangs
Off her eyes, sadly, palely
Dancing with darkness
Enhances plight of her eyes
Signifying Halloween

Russell Sivey...

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A beautiful sun floats on the horizon 
Signifying a rising joy
Blades of grass graze by
Our smiles become so coy

Clouds sweep in,
The grass gets stuck in our throats 
We turn away and close our eyes
The sun is drowning and it begins to choke...

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Symbol of nature and youth, signifying hope for
eternal life and respect for the environment,
green nestles happily in the spectrum between 
bright companions blue and yellow.

from "Character Sketch--The Incomparable Green"


November 15, 2021
for Liberum Divisa 8
Sponsor: Gregory Barden...

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She’s beautiful

The way she smiles

Her lips signifying safety

Questioning yet calm

Taking you to the ocean

Where she strokes your silky brown hair

Tattered from the salty air

She whispers in your ear

Telling you her secrets

Like a rare crystal

It’s not a mask she wears

Just a heartfelt song...

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Everywhere...
You search tirelessly
With much determination.

And every time you fall
The more stand
A total and united effort.

For at the end
At the barn, you'll
Find the biggest catch...

The mother duck
Her quackling never stopped
Signifying she lain, the GOLDEN EGG
A manifestation of hope, happiness and eternal love!...

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November first, day of the dead
Full of traditions, honoring the fallen
We light a red candle at sunset
Lay a table of food for the deceased
Eat sugar skulls, signifying bringing dead to life within ourselves
Masks and signs are paraded in a festival’s procession
Celebrating the cycle of life and death
November first, day of the dead...

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~strove abyss…
   gathering nothing…
   illusions…
   gross shadows… 
   signifying, not a thing…
   Love is the leaven…

~life is gift…
  precept is profit…
  abundant…
  wealthy store…
  Divine infinite, the source…
  immortal is Love!

For and in honor of Nette Onclaud
And contest: Share a Shadorma
Written by John Moses Freeman...

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The pumpkins brighten the area tonight
With the aura of fear brought into its wake
Their power absorbs life, signifying night
Creating direct line of turbulent hate
The light given off is a possessive hue
A grand display of ultimate sadness true
It’s a heartless shadow of a demons heart
Master of evil shown never breaks apart

Russell Sivey...

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Monday madness mauled my meandering melancholy mind
Tuesday tinkered tactlessly through tainted thoughtless taunts
Wednesday went without wonderful words whispered willingly
Thursday tempting taunting the tigresses to truant
Friday frivolously featured fruitful freaky fun frolics
Saturday simmered signifying sumptuous sultry spectacular scenes 
Sunday slow slovenly siesta singing sunny songs...

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My being here before thy faith,
a signifying turn of wait
Oh, halt the time within, not hate
the staleness, nor the sameness state.

And gratify me not with rate
that I am bettering by gate,
I tend to own not, that I fate
my real self's owning of abate.

A giving wield, a blessing's mate,
that Godly given finds relate.
His helping hand does indicate,
my soul's true stand in thy debate!...

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Filtering 	
her imprecise vision 
an array of ensign so diverse

Beautiful 
devoid of deception 
each one with its own story to tell

Just for her
they symbolize so much 
the dawdling return of her eyesight 

Suddenly
the shells became her all
confirmation and hope she prayed for


Inspired by Nette’s Parallelogram de crystalline Contest
Written by Wilma Neels


030420121857...

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Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace
from day to day.
To the last syllable
of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays
have lighted fools
The way to dusty death
Out, out ,brief candle
Life’s but a walking shadow
A poor player
That struts and frets his hour
Upon the stage
And then is heard
No more
It is a tale
Told by an idiot
Full of sound
And fury
Signifying nothing...

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The flag flies high
Above the ground beneath your feet 
The colors signifying all you fought for
And where your allegiance lies
You’re pride is seen in every face in a crowd
Everything you worked for in every smile
Their safety is entrusted in your hands
In which you hold to your heart
They will remain America’s
Unforgotten Sacrifices
Unforgotten Memories
Unforgotten Soldiers

Unforgotten Heroes!...

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Rain has become synonymous with gray

          signifying a storm is on its way.

A skittish sun silently shrinks away

          allowing shadows to overcome day

and clouds to release droplets straightaway.


(Rhyme)


April 21, 2019
Rithimus Divisa Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Gregory R Barden

* This is a "Rithimus Divisa", taken from the poem "Whirling Winds Wail", written on Dec. 29, 2018*...

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green grasshoppers- vivacious
gazelles
gaily observing  nurtured
exhibits
gossamer winged butterflies
gracefully
signifying natures colourful
kites
  gently touching floral
parades

perfumed yesterday, today 
tomorrow
garnet geraniums
whimsical gypsophila
dainty daisies
ravishing roses
timid pansies
different poses

 a gardens grasshopper showcase



© September 2013- Kim van Breda-...

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The office of credibility
Stamps their approval
Signifying
A latent rising over the stalk

Chafing, is the stigma
Medicalizing or criminalizing
The avid loophole watermarks
Blurry in their dispossesion
Searching for means to an end

What end of perspective?
Could ask for proof
Of insanity
In a doctors authoritative opinion

Avoid the brain drain
because the permanent records track
Putting the mark of cain
On social histories of the past...

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The day wakens smiling
Showering all with warmth
Freely given as flowers
Fragrance, fire to flames

United in questing,
Answer of brothers
Survivors sacred sharing,
Uniting hands, hearts.

Blessings of the spirit
What can be, will be
Describe the sacrifice
Signifying a gift of life.

Inheritance of earth, water
Sharing bodies, being
With all brethren united,
For those who would be free.
Who those, God rest, are freed....

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Every birth
A time of hope
And promise
Reconfiguration
Of the family circle

Every death
A final fulfilment
Even prematurely
Giving pause 
For reflection
On life 
As time stands still

One birth
Bearing
The seeds of salvation
Signifying 
Temporal tragedy
And eternal hope

One death
True completion
Offering 
Redemption
Behind 
The cruelty of man
With its pain
And torment
Masking
The divine message
We must give 
To receive...

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The two combatants were 
Cast in a deceitful duel
Enmeshed in the charming world
Of wounded psyche’s 
Where thoughts 
Take arms and batter one another
I opened the heavy fire door
On my private inferno
My chest decorated 
Rows of gleaming medals
Much like a Russian General
Each medal signifying some special action
A cowardly special action
So I yield my chest, my body
To the executioners, I willingly do it,
Because that’s what soldiers do....

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Through grains of sand tranquility flows
Random in order, angles repose
The mounds of time, etch the glass
So fine the stone, memories amassed


Chiseling and carving, concave to the bottom
The theory of physics, randomly quantum
Steadfastly pouring, ever so fast
Individual millions, to one they are cast

Inverse it to start over again
Each moment of life represented in sand
What once was last becomes the first
When hitting the bottom signifying rebirth...

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i printed off
all of my poems

i distributed them
at the traffic lights 

no one opened their car windows
except one poem i stuffed in a dog's face

a child laughed at me from his back seat
i laughed back

i stuffed the poems in drains
in supermarket trollies

i donated them at the
charity shop

i hammered this poem
into a lamppost

it blew away into the ether
i went home to pass a kidney stone

all the eggs in this box are double yoked
signifying nothing
...

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