Best Momento Poems

(Dedication: This poem is for Linda,
aka "A Poet Destroyer" one of my
many friends at PoetrySoup online.)
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A curious soul lives in this space:
Moves with a style that shapes good cheer;
Often she gives a boost to trace
More than a smile to works right here;
Entreats our best to...

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Autumn moon
Cloudy hide-and-seek;
A celestial play

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Old folks home
In distant suburbs;
Desolate aura

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Moon cake festival
Chinese mid-autumn moods;
A lovers' tryst

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Chinese medicine man
Consult for pain remedy;
Acupuncture and heat

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Evening stroll
Fresh air after rain;
Wet pathways

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Street commotion
Fiery tempers flare;
Accidental collision

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Sundry shopping list
So much to buy;
Procure a helper first

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Stray mongrel barks
Empty park bench;
Invisible outcomes

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Silent...

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time standing stlll
arrested
   moments revealed
in stimulations
of the mind

revealed lluminations
of the past yesterdays
becoming today
tomorrow's postponed
memory

past pictures live again
momento mori in hypereality
as monuments
to past existence
from shadows of transience

sentient touchstones
in memorials of perception
aesthetic sublimations
of immersive
spontaneity


fascinating expectations
in a visual  genesis
of  suspended animation
 still distant
now living...

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November plays
With rainy moods;
Overcast sky


Audience gathers
Teenagers align;
Protocol dictates


School talk moment
Share the writer's way;
Story persuasion


Curious faces
Sit and stare blankly;
Open box mystery


Play wit and urge
Thirteen-year olds;
"Do what you love..."


Pun with fun factor
Takeaway message;
"Love what you do..."


Exhort tomorrow's crowd
"Dream big. Work on it."
Too late can come too soon


Plant...

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Momento Mori 
Remember you must die

We must walk thru the valley of the skulls
You can get there by using the proper tools
Everlasting life is for the fools

Old age can't be defied 
The grim reaper can't be denied
He's waiting on the other side 
Knock on the...

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Oh come, my love, to tranquil shores
             follow paths of lilies
                     to me.

By...

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leaves fall from branches in the autumn
branches fall from trees a a storm
the tree however knows no time
It knows only day, and night, and that short time in between
when you can't quite tell
what exactly it is.
It is not dawn nor dusk but a moment
one short...

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DISQUIETING MEMENTO

Lone leaf upon the earth is red,
amidst the mountain’s grief of dust.

A civil war sent boys to bed.
Lone leaf upon the earth is red.

“War is hell,” the old have said.
 Why does it steal the youth, robust?

Amidst the mountain’s grief of dust,
Lone leaf upon...

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They say it’s no bigger than a helmet, 
 Half-sunk in moondust, beside a crater’s lip— 
 A sculpture of a child's hand, reaching 
 upward, fingers curled mid-gesture, 
 as if to catch a star that isn’t falling. 

Polished titanium, etched with breath— 
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On a road away from here... 
Peace vaguely shows itsself. 
I'm headed where I shouldn't be 
With nothing left, here to fear. 
All hope I had has gone away... 
My loss, I can no longer stop. 
This pain swelling within me, 
Is here to stay....

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Glimpse cheery chimes, glimpse charming poise;
Echo bold plans, echo fine feel;
Rise to fond times, rise to warm voice;
Move all you can, move with kind will;
Abide in truth, abide in hope;
Impact and see, impact and be;
Now feel life's proof, now sense life's scope;
Etch love surely, etch...

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un desconocido
me dio un beso
salvation
a los labios
mi naris sangro
la difusion
roja al mar
flores encantadas
vestido para dar
la beinvenida
conceive y suelte
recuerdo del pasado
de la muerte
condenacion
volver en este
momento...

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an oversized ego shaped as our head
carved out of a block of translucent gold
a dead tree stump, no longer by love fed
fall of Midas in hushed whispers retold

a wabi-sabi stain etched in blood red
casts on the moon a shadow of deep gloom
of how man’s heart...

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On this paper you’ll read what killed our humanity
  The simple answer: it died to corporate greed
  Our race is alive, our morals are not
  But we’re just simply doing what we were taught
  We murder and steal, then fine and...

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He was a gentle giant - towering
Bigger than the notorious Claus
His jolly and joy were never overpowering
His gift was a reminder of grandma’s
He represented Santa - his love the cause









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