Best Flashback Poems
Below are the all-time best Flashback poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of flashback poems written by PoetrySoup members
Flashback To PresentThe 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
ShadowlandsOne 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 Startedi'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
Lost In a Shadow of TimeHer 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 StartPlans 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
Holiday's Past ReveriesAs 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
Chastity Vow- Double TankaFull 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
I Fell In Like With YouInspired 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
Paradise LostToday 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 BullyShe 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 AmStill 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 SoulThe 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 RegretsAll 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 ScarsI 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