Best Distant Memory Poems

The cold is now a distant memory

As snowfall comes the heaviest in years
With drifts now formed of northern wind that blows
For all I see is...

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If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry...

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You waited for this moment,
As if you were an incomplete salutation

You waited for confessional breaths to alleviate this finite evening
Missing its constellations

You wept for their...

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Our shadows are silhouetted against the fading orange sky.
A blanket of russet and brown leaves carpet the ground
Like tiny children we kick the wind blown...

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Unrequited

The things i think about,
never settle below
they float instead
and fester inside
as I pluck your name in the air
a sacred memory folds over
foaming layers, floating vapors
Creating...

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To shivering seas 
   mirroring cracked crystals,
I am searching for a righteous rhyme,
to orchestrate eclipsed realms 
with blue orchids 
   ...

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You crept into our lives
silently stalking
like a cat burglar in the dead of night
invading every aspect of our world

Robotic treatment by the Da Vinci Machine
operated...

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Remember to smile
Even if you are dying inside
Remember to hold your head up high
Even if your knees feel like they want to yield 
Remember to...

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With unclosed lids, but yet I dream
I'm lulled with distant memory
A different place, my mind redeems
I'm drifting back to yesterday

I'm back in time, with younger...

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The Cider Gum (Eucalyptus Gunnii)

By 

Kevin L Fairbrother

The full Moon ablaze in the night sky

Beams down on the dead and dying Cider Gums

Their ghostly silhouettes,...

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And a thousand birds chant harmoniously, shrill and vibrant,
Bringing spring to forest creatures and urban dwellers;
Come out, come out and breathe the air,
Drink in the...

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True love is like a wild rose

It can bring so much joy
Beauty and vibrance to behold

Then when you reach out to your hearts desire
The thorns...

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November

Cool winds turn cold as the winds stir from the north
The sun, the life giving star, heats the tropics so far to the south
Its warmth...

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Upon her beauty his mind would often drift
But now he was just a sigh upon her lips
He missed her tender kiss and sweet caress
A distant...

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Lacy nights with tender touches, oh, how I crave your embrace,
for I’ve never known something so beautiful as you, my sweet-
I use my charcoal to...

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