Best Forgetfulness Poems

Tempt me to sing
My soulful siren song
Oh then tell me, tell me
I never do anything wrong
Ensconced in your arms
So safe and strong...

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from "Awaking", by Stephen Spender:
"After night the waking knowledge --
The gravel path searching the Way;
The cobweb crystal on the hedge,
The empty station of the day."

I have begun the process of forgetting
(and of selective remembrance),
apathetic to once-important retention
of what I thought defined me as myself.

The flow...

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Lost...
I am dormant on the ground
 In a dark alley not to be found.
A board opposite me writ in red, 
Lifeless I am, please no tip,
money I have, but my soul
deserted me, thats why I am here.
 
Useless...
When a passer by stared at me heartless,
how...

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Oh no!! I forgot –
 
I had a plate of dessert
 
In the cool freezer 


Oh no!! Dad forgot – 

He left his blue bowl of fruit

On the clean counter!...

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I had this poem 
I'd been working on
All about forgetfulness

Then made the mistake
Of setting it down one day
Now I've no idea where it is

I've look out, I've looked in
All the places that I'd been
On this endless search to find

I've looked high, I've looked low
Places I...

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FORGETFULNESS 

                older folks need circles
of golden rings

                so we don’t get excited
for youthful things

...

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Two palm shape a bowl for wound. 

My mouth is a big hole of cry
Ruminates in the dark the sorrow  

My legs flint-stone-
The hammers of night sparked
The cry from my chest 
The sleepers of the graveyard heard it.

This is the hell where heart melted....

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Thick, white, penetrating fog;    
humidity suspended in space and time.    
You go away, and although it fences, you are already distant,    
little drops merge with your body.    
    
I don't...

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Forgetfulness is not one of my better traits
Never the result of any foregone conclusion,
I could blame it on the narrow-minded fates
Or other faults my mind harbors in profusion.
Of all those ills, none causes me such anxiety
As forgetting a most important appointment,
And I try to make...

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She studied her shoes for ages, laces frayed from her obvious clumsiness

He touched her arm, lightly, as tornadoes settled themselves and memories
fought the weather,
her hair, it seemed, was nappier on Tuesdays, and he tousled her
when she woke up.


"Please" was always spoken too lightly,
she fell inside...

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To be insane and psychotic that is what I'm being called 
The tendencies that I find myself face; 
To lose my memories, my personality;
To forget myself, 

Only to be reborn time after time again,
With new experiences as they are 'new' 
Only to be forgotten again...
I...

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Forgetfulness, Who Me?

Sure I can go to lunch next Tuesday;
Will you call me and remind?
Sure, I'll call you on Monday,
We'll firm up the place and time.

Oh, it's Wednesday, I forgot to call you,
To remind you about yesterday;
Are you angry with me, why didn't YOU call,
Well...

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Vergessen sind die Tage, 
nebelleicht
wie Lichter aus der Ferne,
so leicht verschwommen.
Die Zukunft steigt herab
in uns're Zeit,
bedauerlich, 
die Tage so veronnen.
Doch schlimmer noch als täglich Leid 
in uns schlummernd
die Vergesslichkeit

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Gone are the days,
as free as fog
like distant lights,
and slightly blurred.
Future is stepping down 
from high above
to...

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When You Look Back, THERE IS THE CROSS!!

How many times over the last 40+ years have I looked back upon my
life, sin, failures and sometimes my successes but not as much as my
failures.  BUT GOD!

HE didn’t go to the cross for no reason; HE...

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In a flash, I sit at my desk 
Eating a grill cheese sandwich
Potato soup that is from scratch
It all tastes amazingly good
Before I am through, I get up
And check the knob on the stove
It’s turned off, but I need to know

A few moments later, I...

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