Mentioning Poems

Premium MemberRecent updates Q and A

...Q  Was yesterday, August 3, 2025 considered 'the 9th of Av?' on the Jewish 
     calendar?

A   Yes, it was.

Q  Why is it considered to be 'a national day of mourning for the Jewish people?'

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Categories: mentioning, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose

Due to be a Good One

...I sat next the guy who sat to that"ole Gal"
that night that they talked it over.
Over and Over again
they talked about it.
I heard words of love
and endearing concerns.
They talked about everyt...
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Categories: mentioning, business, encouraging, music,
Form: Ballad


Cheese

...Ella Dit......Capture
 finding something reavant
sorta elegant
something worth mentioning
something just to say
stumbling over my words
haven't you heard
or is it just something to say
Il Dil...
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Categories: mentioning, music,
Form: Ballade

Premium MemberStark in Glacier Park

...We planned for cycling in Northern Montana
Me, Marvin, Louis, and Anna
I had doubts about them, though they were healthy
For Anna could never resist a selfie
Marvin couldn't plan, Louis attracted...
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Categories: mentioning, friend, fun, hilarious, humor,
Form: Lyric

An unplanned nice trip

...20250525
After missing the train to Swan Hill.
I went Frankston and got off at Currum station.
A local bus 833 to Lake Patterson.
Walked right into a Retirement.
I was drawn to the Patterson Lak...
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Categories: mentioning, blessing, places, travel,
Form: Free verse


A Poet Dies and is Bored with Heaven

...I lounge about, walk about, crocking
a hymn of praise or two.

Heaven, is heavenly,
or is it a fake and fanciful heaven
created
for fanciful and fake poets?

I sit by a sweetly flowing stream...
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Categories: mentioning, poetry,
Form: Free verse

What you Say

...misogamists
Just my luck
to fall in love
who is so uncaring
I think it's me
it's got to be me

there is this guy
who loves you
everything about you
I think you who it is
you never want to ...
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Categories: mentioning, music, perspective,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberAn Interview with the Color Purple

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Hello, everyone. Today we welcome the famous color Purple to our show. 

Hello. I’m so happy to be here.

So, tell me, Purple, Why do people refer to prose sometimes as purple?

Ha!...
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Categories: mentioning, color,
Form: Narrative

Love Is Something That Cannot Be Explained

...What about love
Is dating for fun
Being attracted to each other
Is a very interesting thing
However, if the passion fades
And the love disappears it will be boring
Just like you and your ex, yo...
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Categories: mentioning, happiness, life, love, prejudice,
Form: Narrative

Pillow Talk

...hanging out amongst those who are like minded
new to the group naive to the lies and deceptions
groomed with gifts fun spotlight low expectations
time goes by everything great money had you blinde...
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Categories: mentioning, identity, image, scary, violence,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Not so Non-Profit

...I was referred to your organization for shelter
what was offered was totally helter skelter
first week a birdie gave the scoop of the place
a dirty dark seedy operation without any grace 

Your ...
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Categories: mentioning, abuse, community, dark, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme

I Wish For The Death of Me, My Ghost To Resurrect, and Haunt You Infinitely

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"Silenced tears, muffled screams, A storm penetrating in your chest that seizes your soul, 
Is god watching the world burn? The bricks that create a barricade were the ones confiscated within me, ...
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Categories: mentioning, absence, addiction, anger, corruption,
Form: Free verse

1-1-2096 Yeilded These Words

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----------The Future from a Variety of perspectives and Disciplines---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
He told a crowd of ...
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Categories: mentioning, character, clothes, film,
Form: Ballade

Premium MemberMontague Middleton

...Montague Middleton’s matronly mother made marvellous munchy meringues 
Montague Middleton’s most massive midriff made many a menu mistake
Montague Middleton met many maidens; Mother made mincemeat ...
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Categories: mentioning, humor, marriage,
Form: Alliteration

I should've stayed on the side but I am hiding already

...Now my hands rest in my pockets and I stay still and don't bend.
You know I still can't see the end, well one thing I sticked on.
But still the only thing I wanted to go away.
You really did as If...
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Categories: mentioning, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse

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