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Best Mementoes Poems

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Premium Member Christmas, Minus One
We said our goodbyes in June,
and the months since blur into mist.
At unexpected moments, awareness
of loss hits; tears spill unbidden.

Family gathering, Christmas Eve 
as usual...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mementoes, childhood, christmas, food, fruit,
Form: Free verse



Theatrical Attraction
Curtains drawn drawing me in
past trinkets left as mementoes
reaching for stars and moments
filled with honeydew kisses
keepsakes kept inside 

Sugared apple blossom scents 
fill the void...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mementoes, fantasy, fate, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ephemera
She found some mementoes stored in a box
before the new owners came to change the locks.
An assortment of items almost forgotten
now partly hidden under protective...

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© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mementoes, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Barbed Wire Around My Heart Barbed Wire Around My Lips
My heart bares many wounds
that will not heal
mementoes of lost love
and heartache time hasn't heeled
I have cried so many internal tears
that burned inside me
as deep...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mementoes,
Form: Free verse
Love Forever Fades Away
 LOVE FOREVER FADES AWAY!!!!   wrote by Mrs.Madhavi
Waving like the sea,
Your decision was bias.
You ought to give me wedding ring,
But set my dreams...

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© Madhavi Sp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mementoes, angel, anger, autumn, beauty,
Form: Light Verse



The Loner
Like a shadow within a shadow merging with the darkness of night, I am the shadow merger
Like the sense of invisibility that cloaks my corpse...

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Categories: mementoes, solitude, , Lullaby,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve - Xxxv Part One
Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
 Part One           ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mementoes, august, autumn, farewell, september,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member On Hearing That Ronnie
for Ronald Hindmarsh-Midwood 
                     ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mementoes, friend, friendship, light, pain,
Form: Elegy
Setting Up House
I met a woman, fell in love
She was a gift from above
Soon she became my spouse
We gathered things and set up house.

Some things were new...

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Categories: mementoes, adventure, angst, caregiving, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 8
Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 8

The pain that M’m’selle inflicts on her toes
Twists itches in bums and bosoms of hope
Each in his own...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mementoes, birth, desire, pain, passion,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member That Final Day of the Holiday
There it is having so enjoyed it
full of sunshine there in the med
tomorrow is day to catch plane home
you wish to turn clock back instead

Each...

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Categories: mementoes, day, holiday, life,
Form: Rhyme
Scars and Stripes
They got them in service to their country
mementoes of it’s wars,
some for valor above and beyond
others for sweeping floors.

They all turned out in uniform
fulfilling the...

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© Bob Quinn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mementoes, thank you,
Form: Ballad
Loving Through a Microphone
Loving like a microphone
When we’re on the phone
You ignore everything  I’ve done
Our time together was fun, I guess?
Missing you in your summer dress
When I’m...

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© Skyy Allen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mementoes, lost love
Form: Free verse
Of Thee I Sang
Michael, the archangel,
was found dead on my lawn this morning -
stuffed inside a Gestapo boot. 
Crisp, black leather 
containing the remnants 
of abandoned halos and...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mementoes, loss, political, war
Form: Free verse
Bittersweet Serenity
Having flown with you.
  Having watched you wither.
    Beauty remains,
      But the most beautiful has blown...

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Categories: mementoes, angst, death, funeral, health,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs