Short Mentions Poems

rewards
recompense,
await your best-
within literature's
harvest...

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If I read one more poem that mentions God, I’m gonna scream
Good grief, people, don’t you realize it’s a dream!...

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Best wishes in mentions . Less mess with which best left to rest . More distance distillates dislike that dawns delight . Illumination lifts hates distraught brought to rot with lips on eerie words . So set in settle if rest feels eerie , distance brings distillation to dismiss ....

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Some Siberian
Or could be Nigerian
Opposite climates.

My Forward Day by Day for Sunday
January 17th mentions Diocese of
Akoko Edo, Bendel, Nigeria. Other
dioceses of Ondo, Aguata, Niger and
Ahoada, Niger Delta are also mentioned.
Jim Horn, Episcopalian and Retired Veteran...

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Rider cracks his whip
       thousand people enjoy race
      forced Horse leaps with pain 




Honorable Mention in contest sponsored by: Dana'lynn Smith
Written on 11/01/2011

Now again for Contest Sponsored by: Richard Lamoureux 
in Battle of the Honorable Mentions - Poetry Contest...

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When i first met you I never would have imagined that I would have such strong feelings for you.
I never would have thought that I would dream about you
or miss being by your side
or get butterflies when someone mentions your name.
when i first met you i never would have thought
that i would love you....

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Poetic thoughts would be halted
The community would not exist
This family that's been created would not be mourned or missed
There would be no contests, prizes, or honorable mentions
There would be no smiles, frowns, or conventions
There would be no thoughts written down in oodles
There would be no need for us -As Soupers...

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No longer are you in my mentions
Evil hidden in good intentions
How could anything be understood
When I wanted nothing good
Wondering why there's so much pain
Working selfishly out of my own gain
Drinking away tomorrow
Hoping for a better day a better tomorrow
How can this be true
Never did I think i would see myself in you...

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In January’s chill, my woe is exposed 
Like a mesh of rough woolen lint
Hanging on thick icicles when hours pale ;
As brittle fleece of dreariness
Grips my pores, longing for a cashmere night.



Battle of Honorable Mentions
Sponsor: Richard Lamoureaux
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Former Contest using Verse in 5 Lines ...

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Whenever a soul mentions your name
I can assure you, it doesn't spark a flame
When you trail off like contrails in the sky
You're so far gone; invisible in my mind's eye



Arbitrium Divisa Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by: Gregory R Barden 
Taken from Stanza 2 of my own poem, "I Do Not Miss You When You're Gone"
Date submitted: 05/26/2019...

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As a committed Christian my expectation is experiential since Jesus promise in my life since turning back to God has proved to be  accurate in so many ways expecially in regard to the Holy Spirit as helper healer guide &counsellor.So the expectation of rewards He mentions & records in regard to the first & second resurrections are indeed my esperance....

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Adam is out
on a hot date
has a good time
until the fruit plate

Eve gets cranky
says ''I'm late
my nipples hurt
and you I hate''

He yells at the cook
''Worst I ever ate!''
she glares in silence
at her lousy mate

He gets on up
feels low rate
she calls him a slob
he mentions her weight

It's not going good
they've sealed our fate
the meal cost too much
and smells like bait...

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Welcome as you left
Happenings in touch
Feeling all in family 
As all we stand lively

Same group of gang
As you touch my body
Tides rides high as locked
 In memory of splash
Wash my body in shore


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This is how grow up. . No names mentions  but  awkardly they  were with me as much as they could.  Now it is your turn....

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Remember the 1967 hit "Ode to Billy Joe"?
Number one on the music charts is where it would go.
It was recorded by country-western singer Bobbie Gentry.
This singer-songwriter reached world-wide popularity.
Something she mentions in the song remains a mystery.
Bobbie, when you and Billy Joe were up on Choctaw Ridge,
what exactly did you throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge?
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My Deadly Sin

Apathy lets evil win. 
Gossip is among the Ten. 

Cruelty is simply barbarous. 
Three of Seven mentions avarice.

Hell burns hot for hypocrites.
Stygian fates await the bigots.

And may there be little respite,
For the tyrant nor the despot.

These are sins that I abhor,
But, alas, there is one more.
Among them all, it's even worse;
It's penning lists of bad to verse....

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content warning: briefly mentions death and describes a heartbeat



I have been shoved through the keyhole of death.
On the other side of then and now
you halt. 
Once I was nursed by the wet thump of a heartbeat.
Shaken 
by a sweet drip, 
an everlasting quenching,
that once suddenly started wasting.
my misplaced thing: 
memory of heart shaped fur
keeps me in this room of forever dreams...

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Listen to poem:

heated Breath   
David J Walker 

In the beginning 
	I knew nothing  
The end will be the same

Bourn of a single drop of water 
	heated by the breath of God
Odd the
mix of mire 

Refined in fire
And I am Adam lying in the grass
missing a rib

A woman named Eve mentions
Honeymoon options in Mexico

The next I know
The boys are arguing… again

Who is in charge of this scene 
It can’t be the snake…....

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Cold and Misty
By: Miracle Man
12-15-2019

This blustery day finds me quietened inside,
Weighing my thoughts before going to ink.
Most thoughts arriving my pen has denied,
I’m carefully bound and thoughts I bethink.

I gaze outside and observe leaves blowing,
A Northwester wind, gale force, is howling.
Today’s forecast mentions sleet and snowing,
Which means today will be spent scowling.
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The Pale Mariachi
by FD F.D. Ravenskraft
He plays and delays
and he obeys the tunes that command
His ways. To lust only for it.
the guitars need attention
as the player mentions
that I dedicate his life to it 
to only die alone in the slums of misery
without the pity of the world
my guitar is what you heard
singing with the songs of birds
I broke my mentality
in the smoke of mirrors
 The Mariachi of a Pale Reflection...

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Contradicting everything 
one might think of love
or the act of being in love
yawn when the flowers
grow to bloom
and warm air
a night sky with a moon
us under this starry sky
embracing to remember our
reasons why
those who have caused us
to meet like this
might think we
are full of vain and selfishness
those who wish to see us part
are jealous and foolish
they refuse to understand
I am your lover
and you are my man...

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Suddenly,
Heartbeat trumpeting in my throat,
Her presence,
It does that to me, sometimes,
I force myself to
To neutrality, absurdity, mask,
We talk,
I remain, the elephant in the room,
I talk,
No one mentions that I am the elephant in the room,
I remain,
Iron cored neutrality,
Masked girl,
Forever masquerade,
Questions set me grasping for straws at the end,
Each day,
Best friends, always,
My heart still beating in its cage....

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Out with some friends,
They're talking about men,
I'm thinking about business,
Music and what I'll write with this pen,

Someone mentions the Kardashians,
I just think “The Karsmashians?,
They love reality T.V.,
I' d rather see Me, Myself, and Irene,

They talk about bars and clubs,
all the drunken nights and men invites,
Id rather be at home with my man,
my loves already in high demand,
Watching movies kickin back,
Guess I don't belong with the cat pack...

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I checked my watch and checked my phone,
but everyone’s in a different zone,
Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific,
maybe I should be more specific,
some schmuck mentions god and trust,
tough luck thy neighbour hit the dust,
when I wasn't feeling too great,
after that late night altered state,
reaching for my mourning shoes,
it's all-American breakfast news,
a gunman shot the truth, the eagle and the dove,
why can't anyone tell me, what time is love?
...

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Reading, writing, and commenting too
Awards, honorable mentions, songwriting, ooh!
All of this is because of you
Thank you all for caring and sharing through you words
Poet Destroyer A, and Carol Sunshine Brown
Because of people like you, I constantly abound
Ruben O, Ralph Taylor, and Anne Lise Andresen
I Thank all of you from beginning to end
Writing poetry is a pleasure, a treasure, hidden inside
Thanks to all who comment
You help to keep poetry alive...

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It caused us all to be obessed
with creation.
A tune which greww from a curious hummed tune:
into a full song with intro's, outro's bridges and verses.
It's chorus required a full range of voices to
really express the song's meaning.
They love to make us want them
satisfing them causes us to
be creative
in our creation we share the songs worth.
Those specail ah ooh's
and the ooh ah's
allows those who voice in
expresssion to
give perfect mentions
in each overlap....

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