Best Mementos Poems

Mementos in a box, from years gone by
Thought to have been disposed of long ago
A glance, when something purple caught my eye
A ribbon from someone...

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Sometimes, in uncertain outcomes, as life agitates,
It can sway either way, maneuvering on the edge,
For a difference rather modest, makes the final call,
When a narrow...

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 Was privileged to have sedentary on the seashore in seraphic poetic submersion;
 the ringing sounds from the distant horizon made me entirely lost in...

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  I'm phasing in a recurring monochrome dream,
    velvet whispers lead me to a sonorous stream,
  translucent visions fall as...

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Let’s fly to the celestial fiesta of the cherry blossom,
In the North Eastern Region of Shillong, named, “The Scotland of the East,
The abode of the...

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Memories Contest
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron


We built a remembrance sight just for you, dear sister,
   a granite bench with a poem engraved with your...

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Oh, take me home, sweet journey of the mind,
along the many roads I've known that wind
through times of blessedness. . . through spans of dearth,
past...

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Dear Southern Gals

Savannah - oh honey
You beautiful Belle
Your locks long and loose
And silver as well
Muted mementos
Of suffering of pain
Of tears you have wept
Long rivers of...

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All is serene tonight along the banks of Antietam Creek.
'Neath the brooding moon, the battlefield looks so bleak.
Bloodied ground was hallowed on this dire September...

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Nothing do I have of  him except some post cards
and the one picture of himself he sent me once he’d gone away.
No piece of...

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Slandered wavelengths
from an old worn out speaker
cracking with each unbalanced bass note
Finding my brain on overload
and a slower heart beat
out of tune 

Static becomes the...

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When roses proffer prickly thorns
And wilted flowers deliberately mock
Forlorn garden of my passions torn,

When winds of love are gusting cold
As night invokes banished woes
And horrid...

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POND
my frog
mementos

cute collectibles
their pond is my bedroom
where they are safer from snakes

"the pond, a frog sanctuary”


April 6, 2023

Sponsor	Joseph May
Contest Name	Pyramids 3

the "snakes" being grandchildren who...

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The time has come, the nest is bare.
The little ones have grown and flown elsewhere.
The house once filled with laughter, turmoil and noise
now echoes silence,...

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There is a comfort to the Sadness

There is a comfort
to the sadness,
not that it was
comforting,
more a realization
of necessity.
Oh, there were tears,
stories, followed by
laughter and melancholy.
A...

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