It's rainingHer big beautiful eyes were piercing me up and close
Her playful smile playing all over, vainly trying to prepare me
But, as always, in a trance I lay, heart pounding, mind blanked out.
Completely unaware of everything, except her unabashedly gorgeous presence.
Moments passed, without a word, without an act
Didn't know it was that typical lull before the...
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Categories:
memory, rain, remember, romance,
Form: Free verse
Reflections in the River’s Wake
In life’s wake
Are trailing memories,
Born from dreams
With life’s bow fixed
Toward an unseen horizon.
Willed by bold stroke,
The soul is set afloat
Down a river never traveled—
A river of doubt.
Drifting
Under the dark forest canopy
The cacophony,
Nature’s chorus,
Is unusually silent.
Only imagination’s din
Echoes in the ears,
Stirring the heart.
An unuttered presage
Taming hubris
With its humbling message.
On the liquid canvas
Are sketches of nature
Flowing past,
Giving...
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Categories:
remember, allusion, analogy, imagery, journey,
Form: Free verse
Back to the BeginningWhat is the meaning of it all?
If I told you, you’d surely bawl.
Cry like a baby, yes you would,
If all of truth you understood.
Truth can be so enlightening,
Also, can be quite frightening.
For from the start, we’ve known it all.
Our greatest challenge is recall.
When recalled the truth is real,
All empty spaces it will fill.
We all were...
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Categories:
birth, creation, death, remember,
Form: Sonnet
The Mirror’s Gentle TruthWhen you stand before the mirror so still..
Do you count the years, against your will?
Trace each line like a fading chart..
And mourn the youth that did depart?
But what if mirrors told the tale..
Not of what's gone, but where you prevail?
Not just the texture, time, or trace..
But every triumph you now embrace.
The silvered reflection that greets...
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Categories:
remember, age, beauty, celebration, character,
Form: Rhyme
IF I WOULD HAVE KNOWN
When you're so low you have to reach up just to touch bottom.
Then when you've reached the bottom you still have to climb higher to reach the top.
This is what having depression feels like.
You see no end, unless you end.
There is no strength left within you to climb any higher, so you stay at the...
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Categories:
anxiety, death, depression, remember,
Form: Free verse
WE FORGOT RACISM TO REMEMBER SLAVERYAS THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS GATHER SLAVE DECENDANTS TO BE LYNCHED OVER AND OVER AGAIN SIMPLY BECAUSE PETER GARGANO WAS FIRCED TO FAKE HIS DEATH TO COVER DRUG SMUGGLERS FROM MILWAUKEE TO COVER CAR BOMBS IGNITING MY FACE I AM TRULY BLESSED MY WONDERFUL HUSBAND IS INDEED MY KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOUR WE FORGOT RACISM...
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Categories:
remember, allah,
Form: Naat
Young on a Dirt RoadBlack top was miles and miles away
Dirt road as far as you could see
The future just a minute away
Was everything you wanted it to be
Taking our time but not slowing down
Heads in the clouds, bare feet on the ground
Up with the sun, chasing the moon around
Dirt road living with a real country sound
The black top...
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Categories:
memory, remember, youth,
Form: Rhyme
The Grief I Feel is of Another KindThe grief I feel is of another kind
Sweeter than holy water
A deeper breath than moorland air to find
The black of midnight, not—
Of monstrous seas, but—
Of restful night, donated cloak
From a kindly gentleman to wear
Wrapped in coolest starlight, safe
Astride a destrier — galloping to water
Molted feather — fortuitously found
New flight, gentle wind...
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Categories:
remember, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Pause And RememberFor Jason and his Argonauts, golden wool was theirs to fleece
For the British, Iran's oil was theirs to drill and steal
In '53 the West led Iran's democracy into a tyrant's peace
Now we call the trouble since all part of God's grand will
So many harsh lessons are learned in winter's darkest days
Only to be forgotten as...
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Categories:
remember, history,
Form: Quatrain
WordsWords are soft or words are cold,
Words reject or words can hold.
They can warm the heart and free the soul,
Or wound a person and make a hole.
They can teach a world and build a nation,
Or cause a war and desolation.
To keep from wandering blindly,
Choose your words and use them wisely....
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Categories:
remember, character, forgiveness, language, meaningful,
Form: Didactic
Scrapbook One Days of
infant passage
stuck on album
fond memories linger
yet adult inkling whispers
please move on!!...
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Categories:
remember, age, beautiful, care, childhood,
Form: Verse
Wonder
Categories:
desire, faith, imagination, remember,
Form: Haiku
For the Story: If I Were Petty - Chapter One
I'd steal it back—
my poem that she posted as her own.
I'd name her plainly, demand
a public apology—
an admission of hypocrisy
from the one who keeps her hands clean,
grins like a simpleton, cackles
like she's getting away with it,
this even meaner magic.
Navel-gazing Narcissus
must not have realized
I was never planning to stay
quiet....
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Categories:
conflict, remember, writing,
Form: Free verse
Mindfulness
Woke up this morning
come to find
can’t recall a thing at all
really think I’ve lost my mind
after sleep digging deep
to collect my thoughts
and what I recollect
amounts to naught
insufficient hard drive RAM
my memory is shot
what I remember as best I can
is not a lot it's diddley-squat
it's failing me
old age is what's ailing me
and yet will I forget
such...
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Categories:
fun, humorous, me, remember,
Form: Rhyme
What Stones in Rivers Remember
Stones remember,
the first cold plunge
in ice-melt currents
hurling the sense of fear.
They remember
each bump, each grind,
each sudden collision,
that carved their surface
to soft compliance,
yielding to the drag.
They remember
the murmuring bobble,
as gentler waters
tumbled them together,
stone on stone mumbling
in the cobbled bed.
They remember
the drought years -
sun cracking their dried backs,
leaving flakes and crack lines,
on once-smooth sides.
They remember
the roaring...
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Categories:
remember, river,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Remember Poems
Definition | What is Remember in Poetry?
Poems Related to Remember
commemorate, get, recall, recognize, remind, learn, revoke, retrospect, memorize, extract, treasure, mind, revive, recollect, educe, reminisce, elicit, memorialize, retain, bethink, enshrine, cite, bear in mind, call to mind, conjure up