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Memory Absence Poems

These Memory Absence poems are examples of Absence poems about Memory. These are the best examples of Absence Memory poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Maybe We Can Use Electrolysis Instead of Immolation
to free this specter from its host
caught in a body like bear trap
a house made of arms that can't let go
my hearth’s flame is selfish,
unwilling...

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Categories: absence, break up, loss,



Premium Member Put a Light in that Attic
There's a space with no light.
So much crammed up there!
Wonderful treasures in the front,
Trash in behind.
Images and memories all muddled together.
Loads of ideas and half...

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Categories: absence, confusion, how i

When I think of you
When I think of you, a memory awaits.
So deep within me that walls crumble at the sheer force of your gaze.

When I think of you,...

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Categories: absence, cute love, dream,

rat catcher
Rat Catcher

I feel repulsed when he is near, I ought to have compassion
for this cripple, a twisted foot. an arm that does not 
function as...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: absence, break up, crush,

happiness is
Happiness is 

I this what I wanted, writing for no one in particular 
a few readers here and a few readers there
happiness is in what...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abortion, absence, abuse, africa,



Sleep When Im Awake
Sometimes the dreams are better than being awake, yet even when im sleep, from you I never get a break.
At least in my dreams I...

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Categories: absence, break up, heartbreak,

We Left Our Childhood Behind
Remember when we used to play
In our backyards every day
We built castles in the sand
And chased each other hand in hand

Remember when we used to...

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Categories: absence, childhood, feelings, friendship, innocence,

Just Beyond
He guides her hand from just beyond
With a ready black ink pen they share this bond
The words flow effortlessly as if not her own
Seems to...

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Categories: absence, father daughter, heartbroken, how

In Presence Dwells Absence - A Midnight Manifesto
~in presence dwells absence 
dialectic tangle empty mind inscribe     
upon cerebral core
edges sculpted troubadour 
delicate ghost print under water wane 
into...

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Categories: absence, conflict, memory, storm,

Premium Member For my mother
Like autumn leaves tossed by the wind,
Memories of you spring up
from the concrete corners of my mind.

The brilliant colors surprise me
and I smile at things...

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Categories: absence, autumn, memory, mother,

Premium Member Stained Glass Insecurities
I thought I saw the butterflies inked on your skin
Flying away 
Your vial of tears was spilled out on your journal page 
I couldn't see...

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Categories: absence, abuse, death of

In your absence, a ragged purple dusk stretches over the soul
In your absence, a ragged purple dusk stretches over the soul,
And is petrified, reliving at the frozen window of a heart invaded by silence,
I close...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: absence,

Premium Member All roads lead to you
Like a mad man
without a plan,
slightly insane,
dancing in the rain,
pixilated dreams
like shallow streams,
leave me bemused,
restless, but amused,
but my soul is tried
from those bullets fired,
when loved...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: absence,

Bending Shadow Folding Light
far beyond cold light window edge      
flirt and flutter
wild lashes of winter wink
wandering flakes
soundlessly sow
layers of lazy shadows, dust
over cool...

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Categories: absence, conflict, desire, light,

a short memory
a short memory

There were and still are two airports on the flatland 
outside of our town, therefore many German soldiers 
where stationed here.
Since roads, and...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: absence, age, best friend,


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