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Below are the all-time best Mentioned poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of mentioned poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member On One Knee
if you wanted to dance with me
i mean really wanted to dance with me
then i would
i would dance with you

if you needed me to walk...

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Categories: mentioned, celebration, for her, i
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mentioned, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Tribute
This is a well deserved tribute that I'd like to share
For those wonderful people working in our health care
Doctors, nurses, paramedics and admin staff too...

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Categories: mentioned, people, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Doomed To Feel That Bite and Hear Serpent's Wicked Hiss
(1A.)
Doomed To Feel That Bite And Hear Serpent's Wicked Hiss

Beyond mingling of Light, Matter, Human thought
reams of coils within darkest abyss are there caught
denied rays...

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Categories: mentioned, art, creation, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poet Convention 2014
Poet Convention

Lost in a poets convention, 
I can't recall every poem, I've read through the years
50518, unique comments I 'validate'--- 
Thank You For Sharing Your...

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Categories: mentioned, celebration, character, dedication, farewell,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member One Year Ago
Well, it has been one year since I joined Poetry Soup.
I smile now, because I have met this wonderfully diverse group.

August 7th, 2013 was a...

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Categories: mentioned, anniversary, appreciation, friendship, inspiration,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Soaring Hawk - a Haiku Series
Soaring Hawk poised high
Back drop a deep sapphire sky 
Winds in attendance

Mighty wings unfold
Caressing the Wind Spirits
They lift and support

Circling Hawk perceives
Rainbow circle on a...

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Categories: mentioned, beach, beauty, bird, flower,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Where Did the Years Go
Remember years ago, when you were fit
Now you can't stand too long, before you have to sit
And all the times that you ran to catch...

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Categories: mentioned, age, old, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Plane Crashes Fate Takes Over
It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps...

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Categories: mentioned, love,
Form: Free verse
'twas the Night
‘Twas the night before Christmas and I didn’t care;
I had dozens of latkes I had to prepare.
The menorah was ready, with candles to light,
Waiting there...

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Categories: mentioned, chanukah,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Our Friend
Hey there Mister Bobby May,
I am sure I speak for all
When I say, 
That you are a steadfast poet
On Soup, your poems are of note,
Your...

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Categories: mentioned, friend, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
When a Woman Is Just a Woman
When a woman is just a woman
She's nobody's but her own
She embraces truth in life
with compassion in her soul
When a woman is just a...

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Categories: mentioned, beauty, blessing, women,
Form: Light Verse
Procrastination
Skimming through paragraphs,
I seem to stretch time and shrink my attention 
Underlining words I can't grasp
With my limited span of concentration,
Creating art I can't explain...

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Categories: mentioned, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For Shame
The inky black water sucks her in further
As she descends into the black depths of the abyss
Cloying dark swirls cover her head as soundlessly it...

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Categories: mentioned, betrayal, environment, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No More Soup For Me
I sought a place to post my poems and thought I'd found a fit for me.
At first I was thrilled and felt I belonged to...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mentioned, me,
Form: Elegy

Book: Reflection on the Important Things