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Best Forgetful Poems

Below are the all-time best Forgetful poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of forgetful poems written by PoetrySoup members


The Forgetful Man
O, what a forgetful man!

He forgot the wallet
in the car.

He forgot the car keys
in the restaurant.

He forgot to pay for a meal
in the restaurant.

He forgot...

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Categories: forgetful, crazy, funny, hilarious, humor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Well-Known Stranger
'Twas a sound I thought alarming, most assuredly disarming;
Up I rose from peaceful slumber to discern what it might be.
While my candle flickered, wavered; whilst...

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Categories: forgetful, absence, assonance, feelings, miss
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
Soft is the pillow beneath my head
as dread sweeps over the world
Haunting dreams with chilling screams
shrill as a lonely wind

Crisp and cool is the linen...

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Categories: forgetful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member O' Butterfly
O' Butterfly, a child, disgraced 
Bewitched without a chance
Beguiled, exquisitely endowed. Frail wings held no escape
Such innocence would glaze her eyes, as gossamer might do

He...

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Categories: forgetful, butterfly, , western,
Form: Free verse
Finding Happiness In Everyday Pleasures
Finding Happiness in Everyday Pleasures

Happiness is bathing in glorious, golden sunshine,
absorbing the beauty of sunsets deliciously divine.
Dancing through cool droplets of silvery rain,
feeling cleansed, refreshed,...

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Categories: forgetful, happiness, joy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Bit of Humour To Kick Start the Week
FRED THE PERV.

Kinky Fred stole knickers off the line
One summer night his haul totalled nine
His spree ended in tears
Got an extra ten years
When Judge Sue...

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Categories: forgetful, humor,
Form: Limerick
Torn and Tattered Wings
Torn and Tattered Wings

It’s not easy to have seen
All the darkness inside you
Places I have been
Sorrow and degrading
Thrusting their blades epithetize 
Hard into your heart

I...

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Categories: forgetful, inspirational, loveworld,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flashbacks - Four way collaboration
For turning you invisible,
I'll always be regretful,
when things got critical
was easy to be forgetful.
I left you in a state of shock , 
in tears heavier...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forgetful, angst,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Lover With Gentle Hands
Lover, touch her with a gentleness
which maker her quiver with passion;
when whispered words matter,
a delightful thought can enlighten
her sublime smile lost in happiness,
what else will...

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Categories: forgetful, girlfriend-boyfriend, happiness, love, passion,
Form: Ballade
I'M Turning Into Mother
I’m turning into mother
Eyebrows, nose, and lips.
Bosoms hanging, almost, to
my child bearing hips.

She’s grumpy and forgetful
And I’m growing much the same.
Tables now are turning
In the...

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© Kaye Locke  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forgetful, child, life, me, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Freed From My Shackles - Translation From Tagore
This is a poem (Original Title “Mukti” in Bengali, which means “Freedom”) by India's Nobel-laureate poet, Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) - a poet, writer,...

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Categories: forgetful, freedom, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Friend Knows
A FRIEND KNOWS
 DEDICALTED: TO CHANTELLE COOKE



       A friend knows what you need
      ...

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Categories: forgetful, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thor's Cave
In a small village in the green valleys of the Peak District, Sarah gave birth to a son, after a decade of trying for a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forgetful, allusion, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Recycled Souls Recycled Memories
Recycled souls have 
Many chances; many lives
The wheel of life turns
Education takes some time; 
Humans are quite forgetful.


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Categories: forgetful, education, introspection, life, poems,
Form: Tanka
I Have Loved So Cruelly
It’s truly Greek to me and you
“Agape” may sound like the English, agape
I gape; are we awed by Christ loving me and you

The human in...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: forgetful, bible, blessing, emotions, god,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs