Get Your Premium Membership

Looking Back Poems - Poems about Looking Back

Looking Back Poems - Examples of all types of poems about looking back to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for looking back.
Passage Of Time
...Passage of Time Time, that unforgiving mistress, whisks us away like autumn leaves on a gusty day, scattering our lives like petals in the wind. She wraps her bony fingers around our hearts, squeezi......Read the rest...
Categories: looking back, beautiful, betrayal, day, freedom,
Form: Free verse



The Dance
...Looking back On the memory of The dance we shared 'Neath the stars above For a moment All the world was right But how could I have known That you'd ever say goodbye And now I'm glad I didn't ......Read the rest...
Categories: looking back, appreciation, music,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Clowning around
...Sometimes I'm just a clown hanging around making others happy when I make funny sounds Jokes they tell at school that often break the rules Pretending to be something others think as cool I won......Read the rest...
Categories: looking back, allegory, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Timelapse
...You caught me running, constantly looking back, tears merging within the rain. If I took a leap, would I fly? Left behind, the mole above your lip, laughter in your eyes, jaded progression. I......Read the rest...
Categories: looking back, absence, care, cry, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Seasons of Our Love
...On summer nights Nostalgia's muse revives Scent of jasmine Fig tree fragrance fuses Memories meander Minty ice cream flavours Add sweetness to hungry kisses Star gazing to cricket symphony......Read the rest...
Categories: looking back, longing, lost love, nostalgia,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Having God's Good Hand Upon Me - Titus 3: 4,5
... Looking back having God's good hand throughout my life, I can testify of His goodness and mercy for He's heard my constant cry A few highlights along the way being adopted soon after birth ......Read the rest...
Categories: looking back, god, me, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member TWO OLD OPTIMISTS
... Deborah and I feel blessed to be optimists… to be able to find a bright spot in every day. Blessed because we have never had to work on this… we were both lucky to be born this way. For insta......Read the rest...
Categories: looking back, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Beneath the burdens of countless nights
...Beneath the burdens of countless nights, In the cursed silence of the soul's waiting room, I sat, the last one, loneliness carved by the chisel of forgetfulness into the stone of my heart, Blockin......Read the rest...
Categories: looking back, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Reality
...Be more of things that make you you Don't be like too good to be true Work more on things that bear your name For all humans are not the same It's not a sin to be fanatic But you can make......Read the rest...
Categories: looking back, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mirror of my Mind
..."As you look deeper in the heart the mirror gets clearer and cleaner...Rumi" The mirror of my mind, reflects the years of my heart leaving my face a wilderness of weathered wrinkles cau......Read the rest...
Categories: looking back, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member April Twenty Third
...April Twenty Third By Franklin Price 04/23/2024 Today is April twenty three It is the best day of my life Happy Birthday to you Barbara You are my dear departed wife You are still here w......Read the rest...
Categories: looking back, birthday, christian, love, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member That was then, this is now
...Cleaved from God’s light, we wished to be as He but one day we ate the forbidden fruit, whose toxins caused dread and in heart envy, darkening our luminous soul with soot. Though tempestuous and ......Read the rest...
Categories: looking back, god, heaven, love, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
New Pathways
...Tollgates on redemption road calling out my name Turnstiles of a fated past ... exiting the blame Looking back all fares are paid new pathways to begin Eyes now closing, heart at rest — ......Read the rest...
Categories: looking back, celebration, moving on,
Form: Rhyme
Your indifference, the breath that sparked the fire beneath bridges
...Your indifference, the breath that sparked the fire beneath bridges, Where my once sure steps now breach bonds and ridges. Your scars are but an alluring landscape, Their call, an echo urging me t......Read the rest...
Categories: looking back, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Fun House
...looking both ways down an infinite hall, looking back at myself endlessly, I turned right and followed for ages, until I realized I was always going left, How do I turn to where I meant, ......Read the rest...
Categories: looking back, change,
Form: Free verse

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things