Best Mention Poems

On entering this contest I have to admit
The fame it will bring me when I push "submit"
Is all that I'm after -  my name in bright lights
The kind of attention I earned with my writes.

I used to get noticed for walking in late
To school,...

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Come sit with me my love
I’ve longed for you today
I see you my sweetness you’re tired
Let me give you rest
This world can beat you down
Leave you worn 
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Tell me
Have you ever had a dream
A dream where your own blood fell upon blue roses
And you fell through the ground as petals floated on the wind
Tangling in your hair
Red and blue rotting jewels 
The thick smell of old blood at the bottom of your...

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I Had to Mention That I Know You…
I Had to Mention Your Name
I Have to Mention Things About You…
… Over and Over Again…

I Want Any Reader to Take Note…
In Any Poem; In Every Book…
In any Words, That I Have Wrote;
Spoke, or Terms of Talk (or...

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Honorable mention, a clever invention
To stifle "not good enough"s blow 
An ego, conceited, though truly defeated
"So I am the champion?!" NO...

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When just a child the poet's mom said "Son
Throughout your life beware the sin of pride
Remember this when every day is done
What counts the most is who you are inside"

At first he thought his mother's words unfair
For recognition surely has its place
In time he witnessed...

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It is never one’s intention
Earning “honorable mention”
When you’re entered in a contest or a race.
Yes, you’ve gotten some attention
So that listing, by extension,
Means approval that you really should embrace.

Still, it’s not exactly winning
And it will not leave you grinning
For it feels more like a pat...

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THINGS  NOT  TO  MENTION

Condoms in the Vatican
Soul music to the klansman
      Pork chops to the rabbi
      Bomb joke on an aircraft in the sky
Children and any green vegetable
Supersize to the catwalk model
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Burning fire freezing air;
Heart’s desire feels impaired--
Nothing in this world is fair,
Burning fire freezing air.

Clip the crop with the sickle,
People fake; people fickle.
Greet the day and morning dew
With a smile not made for you.
Circumcise the newborn child,
Wonder why he grows up wild.
Send a hero straight...

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AND from the bell tower
   of my lonely brain
i have seen life down
 (as) little heads
with stalk-like legs
  whose long shadows
walk along these days
  
  they are odd ones
and when i meet heaven
i will embrace all the
grace and all your...

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Green girl
Green girl

She gathers leaves on a blue and green night
Her emerald eyes make me ignite

Dream catchers gather on her wall
She makes stars none shall fall

Green girl
Green girl

Light candles, red hair reminds me of autumn
Fire red forest she will come

Dream catchers gather on her wall
She...

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All alone in the hot sticky dark of the night,
When the howling wind wails its soft screams in starlight
And as creeping cross moons is the witches delight,
Still, and quietly weeping finds me in this fight

No woman or man, crazy sober or worse,
fearful even one touch,...

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A SUDDEN REIGN 

I can't avoid puddles or the rain
when seditious storms sneak up on me
wet, woeful and bound by pain
although I try to free myself, unsuccessfully

junkies are forever standing in storms
waiting, hoping and praying in silence
I run faster when I see black clouds beginning...

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I Must Mention

Things I must mention;
Dissension and division,
Cause apprehension.

Is an extension,
Of my mental retention,
At my convention.

Jim Horn...

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so i am not perfect you tell me
and i'm not concluded in your future
but i got this machine i made for us
that can throw time and us further

so give me a chance because you never did
your lips speak to me in words to attract me
i...

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