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Two is for TangoMe and the dance floor don't really get along, but she made me want to tango
So, against my introverted instincts I approached her with half a cup of confidence and the other half nerves
Only...
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Categories:
anxiety, dance, memory, missing
Form: Blank verse
Outside of TimeSome unions exist outside of time.
Eternal night scapes made from her first gasp,
Made from the very act of pulling him closer
And made from the act of pushing him away.
From the well-worn path his steps have...
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Categories:
death, heartbreak, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
MEMORY LANEMay you be blessed to contemplate…to ponder…to entertain
every now and then…a walk down memory lane.
You’ll find the walk is beautiful and you don’t have to travel very far
before you start running into
the people
the...
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Categories:
memory,
Form: Rhyme
Some Days~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Some days, memories knock the wind out of me,
like a gust of wind that catches me by surprise.
They come unbidden and with a force so strong,
that I am left reeling, my breath taken away.
...
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Categories:
memory,
Form: Free verse
ON MY MINDON MY MIND
You are or were, always on my mind
Like a backdrop to all my thoughts
To have lost you now, I am resigned
My world is now ones and noughts
Another such as you I will never...
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Categories:
lost love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To J DDrowning in my bitterness
and the smallness of reluctance
I refuse again to see
what life has gifted me unclaimed
Falling back into the prison of my dark
unfolding memoir
Drifting lost into an older time
— negativity...
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Categories:
memory,
Form: Free verse
The Yellow SwingThe yellow plastic swing once hung
From branches on a tree
And we would push our daughter there,
Not knowing what would be.
For when a baby’s young, the future’s
Filled with hope and dreams,
Yet every path ahead may...
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Categories:
daughter, memory,
Form: Rhyme
The Changing Face of Shame
So much has changed
in the past 50 years or so
one thing is the word shame
once a friend now our foe
Half a century ago it had a fear
a true fear of God was felt
among a generation...
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Categories:
change, god, memory,
Form: Rhyme
A Poet's Heartfelt Ode To ItalyA Poet's heartfelt ode to Italy
is the murmur of the calmest sea
heard at the close of a long day;
anchored boats in the bay of Amalfi
await sunset and nobody has a plea
to escape danger, so nostalgic...
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Categories:
beauty, emotions, joy, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Identity CrisisWould you remember me
When there's not much of me left?
When I'm faded,
Like a rock chipped away by erosion.
Would you remember me
When you're almost unrecognisable?
When I don't think I know who you are anymore;
Like a tree...
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Categories:
change, future, identity, memory,
Form: Free verse
Cold Case: A Missing Hour of Afternoon
I step out from a second-story window,
float along roads of slow-churning lullabies,
raptured in response to ice cream truck’s bellow.
A clear case of cold sugar—wide gumball eyes,
mobile memories wrapped in coats of corn-snow
hugged around a wood...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Ottava rima
My GrandmaI remember my grandma’s house
Spending so many hours with her
She always had that one special chair
No one but her was allowed to use
She always told stories of life in the old world
And I would listen...
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Categories:
family, grandmother, memory,
Form: Free verse
Message Left on the WindshieldThe rain fogged my window and thoughts
It triggered the grief of losing you
It cried for me when I couldn't
What I would give just to see you one more time
I just want to see you from...
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Categories:
memory, goodbye, grief, i love
Form: Blank verse
California MemoriesHer name was Charlie
And she is what I’d call poetry
In the way that dreamers hope to capsule up and be immortalized beyond the two hands that control it all
A wildflower twisted up with...
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Categories:
memory, adventure, art, crush, fun,
Form: Blank verse
Pools Of Memory~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
in the pools of gold
lie memories lost and found
beginnings, endings
...
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Categories:
memory,
Form: Senryu
Specific Types of Memory Poems
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christmas, dad, daughter, death, funeral, in loving, loss of, mom, quilt, son,
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Definition | What is Memory in Poetry?
Poems Related to Memory
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