Best Mentis Poems


Unbroken Reconciliation

...18-12-1922.                    22-12-2018
A date of birth.               A date of rebirth
A male child.                   A female child
Tenth in line.                   Third then first
    Dea......

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Categories: mentis, december, father daughter, how
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Heedless P-L-A-N-T

...Plant Not your seeds in Poor
soil. Heinous and Quagmire
loves society. Yet,
you seclude yourselves from
your very own seed that
you have planted. But, Why?!

Non compos mentis
at the time?!........

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Categories: mentis, angst, life, people,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse

Poetic Justice - Part 1

...When stretched forever is my day                   
I while the empty hours away                          
in courtrooms dank with men of silk                
proud and tall                       ......

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Categories: mentis, funny
Form: Rhyme

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Couch Potato

...The Potato expanded to fit the Couch,
Bathing in the light of the God of Radiation,
A many hued attack on whatever senses remained.

Froth overflowing from his beer and his brain
Machinegun-like......

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Categories: mentis, corruption, dark, symbolism,
Form: Narrative

Animosity Vessel

...ANIMOSITY VESSEL :
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
VERSE 1:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
Here she sit at her thresholds corner;
Looks pity but craving to blow a vandal,
Crazely permittin......

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Categories: mentis, abuse, evil,
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Salvation According To Faith

...SALVATION ACCORDING TO FAITH


“Help, help!”, I shout out loud, in fear.
‘HELP, HELP!’, echoes of my voice I hear.
Over and over, impinge in my mind
Closer and closer, it gets so near.
Louder ......

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Categories: mentis, blessing, christian, faith, visionary,
Form:


The Stranger Man 3

...THE STRANGER MAN (3)

But let life live its life and I mine.
I ease myself of all worries
And drift where I may such as liberal
As a wind and unheeding to the obstruction
Where of the fate of t......

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Categories: mentis, adventure, feelings, freedom, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Foil Between Love and Lust

...THE FOIL BETWEEN LOVE AND LUST


Who dares me; I lust, to hold utter sway over the flesh!
I love, but can at least assume claim upon the heart.
Well, I swore that from the flesh comes the sweete......

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Categories: mentis, analogy, desire, emotions, love,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Poetic License Sic Stet Amor

...Alter-ego                                                                                                                                                                             ......

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mentis, allusion, art, language, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Tolerance

...Brutalising rights
The delinquent youth,
Turns opportune,
Moral disgrace
Knows no precincts,
Beyond all tolerance !

How much can
One allow leeway,
Racial bigotry
Blot on humanism,
Indifference or to......

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Categories: mentis, irony, sad,
Form: Free verse

Sanity

...Sanity

At a interview with a well-known Greenwich based hedge fund, 
my corporate destiny hinged on the man across the desk from me.
From pierced ears protruded tufts of wiry hair stained by yellow ......

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© Jay Herman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mentis, funny,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Slander Back Hander 9 of 11

...Anyone can make a man look namby-pamby
if they slander and obsess with non compos mentis,
take reputations down, you're as hard as Bambi,
even admitting you completely meant this

cus you were d......

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mentis, motivation, pain,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Appreciation Day

...*Image of State Bar of Texas by Articles.
AUDIO: Tip; Right-click on volume then click on Loop of the drop-down menu for continuous play.

Appreciation Day

I have not y......

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mentis, appreciation, character, children, father,
Form: Rhyme

The Tug

...There's no need for you to worry
No need for you to fret 
I've been to see the doctor 
And he says I'm not a threat 

He says that I'm not dangerous
And I will be okay
And that the voices in m......

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Categories: mentis, crazy, fun, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Premium Member Schizophrenia

...
When did you start hearing voices,
when did they start making choices
to determine your world

and crack that first bottle
or did the first pipe full smash on the throttle
sending you racing
......

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Categories: mentis, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
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