Short Mementos Poems

fossilized moments ;
preserved in your amber heart - 
mementos of love 


11.09.2017...

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gimmicks
used
as 
means 
to an 
end
to
try
and  
create 
lasting 
memories
kept 
within
the 
heart
as 
emotional 
mementos...

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In a drifted breeze

— we parachute 

a misted fog enveloped

cutting deep

words tripped up

lost 

mementos 

moving on

with or without me...

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Artistry seeps ripe

Bearing pine

An opiate gem


A seasoned refrain

Sound evolves

E-sugar delight


Quite a lovely flare

A scarce gift

7th world pixels


Mementos I chase

Span a void

Download...

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I have fallen into serenity.
 In the sweet complacent symphony
Of the humble mementos of life.

I have reached into my soul.
 In the core of my heart identity
Into the attainment of unfeigned love....

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Thundering through the warm ocean 
Their spirit seems to fly
on waves 

Running with total devotion 
As the Sun burns the sky
Hope saves.



Melani Udaeta
Mementos of Waters Contest
Visuals #3   3/10/15...

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River knows it all -
hidden secrets of a mountain afar

Carries pebbles along -
as mementos of her short lived love

Love still evaporates 
from her salt laden soul - eternal flow


(C) Anindya Mohan Tagore (Bobby)
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PIERCED

we grow together
and know not why
scarlet crevices
mementos that bind
and hide the world till
all are blind and left 
behind with pierced
hearts and threads of
blood that line the sins
that we define


© Kim van Breda—13 January 2016...

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Lilly pads watch infinity.
Floating on still waters,
Frogs sigh.
Flowers glide to God Almighty.
Alluring admirers,
Birds fly.

I selected image 1

Copyright March 9, 2015
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen

Written for Poetry Soup Member Contest: MEMENTO OF WATERS – 
Sponsor nette onclaud...

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Touch is fleeting, never a foot hold.
Warmth succumbs to growing old's cold.
Value lies unfounded, hidden in treasure's chest.
For life's obsession is driven by mementos' quest.
Gold that glitters, when buried, fades decays to dust.
All structure and order is dismembered by entropy's thrust....

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"Facts"

A burning furnace, a ruthless season. Marrying Janes, getting stood up by nerds.
It's a hopeless escapade,looking in the mirror l can see the frustration lined on the bloodshot eyes, l realise we are doomed!
No one wants to age like milk and let mementos fade away in a coffin...
Damn!...

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Antiques


He is there,
Grandfather Clock like,
a throwback to another era.

His finely chiseled and polished edges,
the scrapings of life,
the worn, faded, varnish.

His value
should have increased with age,
as with the clock.

Their timeless presence
sweet mementos
of a dusted past....

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Each scar had a story to be told
For each time when he had been bold
For time healed the open wounds made
And scars were left  as a memento of the escapade

So mementos of being brave
Hold this bravery up and save
Them for your story to be told
To you now when our stories aren’t old.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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POND
my frog
mementos

cute collectibles
their pond is my bedroom
where they are safer from snakes

"the pond, a frog sanctuary”


April 6, 2023

Sponsor	Joseph May
Contest Name	Pyramids 3

the "snakes" being grandchildren who like to play
with my over 200 collection of frogs....

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his glossy brown eyes
"pizza face"--
red acne scars spreading
like tomato sauce
from his eyes to his chin

the way he solved
those wiggly equations
on the blackboard
like numbers and symbols
poured from his skull

my fingers trembled
snapping photos of him
to keep as mementos
this crush I had on him
that never blossomed...

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Hawaii football beat BYU three times in December
Those were my greatest holiday mementos to crow
Of all the holiday gifts those I'll always remember
To see our team in green blow by blue added to my glow 
BYU's Goliath and seeing David sling his shot like woe

12/10/22

A DECEMBER MEMENTO Poetry Contest

Sponsor-Andrea Dietrich

5th...

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There is no music like this music
Neither banjo nor drum
Neither organ nor horn
Neither keyboard nor fife can hum
Like the breeze blowing
The bambos 
Shaking the long poicianna pods
Bones and mementos
Of dry ossicles living again
And I stood in the whip of rain
Just to hear, and feel
My body shiver as if to dance
The knowledge of an old romance...

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The bakery was closed
family only an echo of long ago
no mementos of love
loneliness built
into my spinal chord
musical notes exposing
a weeping child
within an old man
a broken guitar sits on the floor

The grave yard across the street
beckons
the next day a friend
brings birthday candles
it took only one match
to burn down the rest of my life...

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Looking for a Clearing 
Time in the win
Stop lights confusion 
Without a mend
No time for a stall
Moving with the quickness
Doubting in the far mist
Bringing home the prize 
Great desire 
Longing in a stand still
Meeting the true call
Private mementos
Searching high and low
Treasure 
A cleaned house
Not on the market 
No sale sign
Just quality dine...

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the clock ticks again and again,
a reminder of each treasured moment,
as some moments pass and need to be left behind,
bread crumbs on the path of living,
illustrating a path that will not be walked in return,
mementos of unknown significance that can not be cashed in for anything of value yet priceless in the living,
until the living ends and the ticking continues....

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When our mother passed
Family went through her stuff
Most of what she owned
Went into the garbage
I sorted through the garbage
As I did this I came across
A plain keepsake box

A plain dull keepsake box
Curious I grabbed the box
Opened the box to find
An eighteen carrot gold ring
From that day on I kept
Both the keepsake box
I wear the ring I found
Inside the keepsake box...

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How do you do?
I missed you.
Day and night
In every twilight
Never wane about you.
Gliding in the snow,
  like you always do

In the middle of the Alps
Not between gaps
Sceneries of you 
  are my portrait.
In every eclipse
Dashing to the strait
Everglades wrap up my glimpse

Mementos of nexus
Yonder of hiatus.
Shimmer of yoke
Exalting joke.
Leverage of time
Fantasy of mime...

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You never meant
a thing to me.
Why then, does
your memory berate
me?

I wish I
had amnesia,
for mementos
of the past,
love to ambush me.

They pick through
the rubble of my mind.
Recounting each and every
time we were together.
Making me hate myself
for ever loving you.

Why, oh why,
did we ever
have to meet?

Why did you leave me?

Why do I kid myself?

You meant everything
to me....

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A grey movie playing with quicksilver moments create murals of memories. Strolling a beach arm in arm, did the wind blow away something ? Sands of time slipped beyond grasp, but never stopped. Wounds healed, scars never faded though.

mosaic  pieces
love bathed in mist and shadow
hide your mementos




Dated 5th July 2020


Sponsor	Line Gauthier
Contest Name	A MEMORY
Prose has 38 words, haiku 5/7/5...

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my heart has come up missing
the search shall continue long into this life

I think of you not for the pleasure 
of a clandestine rendezvous 
no not the shallow ego of my loins

the perception that you will answer when I call 
brings me back to the caress of your fingers 
through my hair, your eyes softly in mine 
the nooks and corners that gave us refuge

these etched mementos 
some dog-eared 
some new...

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