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Best Flashback Poems

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Flashback To Present
The continuous memories scattered inside my mind
All the laughter and loving scenes are left behind
Leaving a life of bad possibilities where I came from
Never getting...

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Categories: flashback, childhood, conflict, emotions, family,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Shadowlands
One memory, found, has cradled this moment,
exquisitely composed with infinite detail.
Once lost with disease,
it is briefly retrieved,
just for this moment, before it is gone.

She smiles...

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Categories: flashback, memory,
Form: Free verse
I'M Just Getting Started
i'm just getting started
unraveling the threads
of this tattered lonely soul
sewn so long ago

apparition's crooked hands
grapples the rusty needle
as she unsteadily threads the eye
...flashback to childhood...

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Categories: flashback, child, mother, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost In a Shadow of Time
Her eyes appear brighter
Her voice whispers low
Her head on the pillow has risen, somehow
She is somewhere without us, somewhere back home 
Lost from the present,...

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Categories: flashback, confusion, memory,
Form: Free verse
A New Start
Plans for life at prolonged range
Where everything is glebe strange. 

No more strain prompt from the past
I have concealed it fully at long last. 

Memories...

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Categories: flashback, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Holiday's Past Reveries
As Christmas beckons with season of cheer
I recall how we met, a hallway outside
Year Nineteen-Eighty in a film's premiere;
Offering your neck- scarf, we gently smiled.
...

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Categories: flashback, christmas, nostalgia,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Chastity Vow- Double Tanka
Full and luscious lips
Tempting treat to hungry eye
Flashback memories
Hot lips in constant pursuit
Now chastity vow taken

Other lips await
Longing to explore and claim
Willing travelers  ...

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Categories: flashback, kiss,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member I Fell In Like With You
Inspired by one of my favorite bands, Rise Against, and the song is called,
“Ever-changing” (Acoustic). Please listen to this song if you don’t know of...

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Categories: flashback, friendship, girlfriend-boyfriend, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Paradise Lost
Today I could feel only burning salty tears of sadness 
Alone as I walked slowly along the beach pondering
Sweet memories pervading my inner psyche deeply...

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Categories: flashback, beauty, dream, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
School Bully
She is slowly slipping away, 
She sees no point laying waiting to decay,
Tired of the names shes starting to beleive,
The thought of leaving for good...

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Categories: flashback, abuse, anger, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Lyric
Lunar Ticking
American cosmonaut
	moonwalking
Humanity is tethered to the line,
sweating vacuum fear facing the void
Planet of the apes ...
	backwards talking
Silent film projector reel
spinning in reverse ... time capsule...

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Categories: flashback, allusion, dark, symbolism, word
Form: Free verse
At 3:00 Am
Still awake at 3 am
Listening to a mellow song
Waiting for the sun to rise
Holding back the tears in my eyes

Still up at 3 am
Doing some...

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Categories: flashback, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
The Music of My Soul
The Music of My Soul

And someone across the land fell asleep
Wondering for the flashback which slithered around the cerebrums and beats
Turbulences perched, paralyzing every moments...

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Categories: flashback, love, me, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
All Regrets
All regrets, in every backward flashback
leave bitter tastes like remorseful morsels
  left drowning in your tear welled eyes
    each day was...

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Categories: flashback, angst, forgiveness, introspection
Form: Free verse
Impressionable Scars
I know I am privileged 
when I see water in your eyes
One smell, one scene, one sound
- a flashback,
which only you can see

Only you can...

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Categories: flashback, life, memory, pain,
Form: Free verse

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