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Best Flash Back Poems

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No Service
Discarded cotton t-shirt shrunken and stained
on the side of a street pot-holed and veined
pants sagging low with no shoes on his feet
headphones blaring to the...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flash back, change, nostalgia,
Form: Sonnet



Eulogy To the Almighty
Your love for me is invaluable,
When I flash back I dwell in wonderland,
Your grace upon me is immeasurable,
I have nothing to give but praises and...

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Categories: flash back, dedication, light, me, thank
Form: Free verse
Lifelines
A misty  reflection
in the mirror
of life


a fragile shadow
on the wall
of boundaries


A deep echo
in the tunnel
of thoughts

A  soft whisper
in the voice
of dreams


a broken emotion
in...

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Categories: flash back, confusion
Form: Light Verse
Never In My Wildest Dreams
Never did I dream 
No never.
At ALL.
That one can be controlled 
By something so small.
You think you have handles
You think you cant fall.
But my life...

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Categories: flash back, sports, dream, dream,
Form: I do not know?
Powerless
Six forty eight,
sitting in a cab at Madison and LaSalle.
Present in hand, Spongebob encased.
A look at the schedule just to confirm
the train leaves at seven...

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Categories: flash back,
Form: Free verse



My Train of Thought Now At 36
we stimulate our minds for our intellect to grow
becoming more technical
remaining spiritually slow

so we face trials and tribulation
crisis and complications
praising God, while serving Satan
expecting love...

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Categories: flash back, caregiving, faith, philosophy, song-pain,
Form: Rhyme
Left Behind
what a sunrise!
what a day!
God in front
to take all good deed people
all in line for god to select
I alone was left behind
unhappy unsatisfied i asked
"why...

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Categories: flash back, fantasy, happiness, imagination, lifegod,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why Are We Here
Nostalgic angst… 
keeps on gripping my soul 
while apprehended by the question:
"Why are we here?"

Yes, I confess that my soul repents 
for wasted opportunities and...

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Categories: flash back, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Undeveloped
on the edge
of this day
a monotone sky
rises dull
undeveloped
like all these rolls
of film
tucked away
in the drawer

sometimes
i want to peer
beneath the corners
see the negatives
exposed
remembering
each frame
of moments
captured
so long...

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Categories: flash back, day, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Suitcase
Every morning, when I walk under my cherry trees,
There is soothing breeze which awakens my senses,
The flash back of life events roll before my eyes,
I...

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© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flash back, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member In the Mood For Love Again
I dream of the lovely times we spent 
Nurturing our new found love.
   
The past is lovingly recalled in quiet
Hours, hours spent thinking...

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Categories: flash back, desire, devotion, love,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Questions Unanswered
Lightning flashes and the rain falls
as the storm rages on tonight,
the family is so worried about you
and wanting to know you're alright.

Late, last Sunday afternoon
you...

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Categories: flash back, depression, family, suicide, truth,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Community Starts Here
Community starts here
Under this tree of sprawling branches
With thighs pressed against sinuous gnarled roots,
Our heads nodding and shaking with whurring yellow leaves
Adorning our heads and...

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Categories: flash back, socialtree, community, tree, spoken
Form: Free verse
My Beautiful Death Note
My thoughts, they fade just like the words I try to speak.
They both have something in common,
they both want to seek.
Is there a solution?
Or any...

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Categories: flash back, beautiful, cry, dark, farewell,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
What I Wouldn'T Want To Relive
flash back a year,
how about even further
am I still hypocritical ?
how about a hypochondriac
look in the mirror, who's the hypocrite
who would start every brawl-
and yet...

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Categories: flash back, abuse, betrayal, break up,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs