Text flag poster idea

I was thinking of playing around with typography to create an image. Here are a few digital iterations of impactful words making up the flag. They are rather similar to my other, soldier-and-poppy poster design layout-wise though.
I made a lot of different iterations with different text, because I was trying to find exactly the right thing to say. I like how I used the letter 'T' and stretched it's tail to form the flag-pole - it's a nice, simplistic way of depicting one.

I coloured some of the words and letters red (and the rest blue) to make the text appear to be the New Zealand flag from a distance. This is very similar to the soldier-poppy flag, which is bad. Also, what is the visual rhetoric that I'm using? It's rather unclear.