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Best Go Back Poems

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Premium Member A Near Death Experience of a Sweetheart
    "A Near-Death Experience of A Sweetheart"



Floating through a corridor between two different Worlds
among white fluffy clouds and shimmering stars awhile wind...

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Categories: go back, death, death, god, death,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Ballad of the Poet
*The Dead Poet*

Many blocks along the road, 
Kicking down walls of heavy stones, 
Yet no one could draw through the walls of her lonely bones.
A...

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Categories: go back, beauty, death, deep, emo,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Saint Patrick's Day Robbery At Milton Creek Bank
In the town of Milton Creek the sun was starting to rise
And Jenna was planning for Ranger David a lovely surprise
Unbeknown to him preparations were...

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Categories: go back, america, humor, ireland, western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Walk Tall
I was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...

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Categories: go back, america, death, drink, drug,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Stardust Road
“Stardust Road.”

"Soft defense is driven by my thoughts,
I vanish away into yesterday’s scenic road,
Set the mood among the dark clouds,
Wish I could go back to...

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Categories: go back, adventure, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Free verse



Do Not Grieve Your Muse
(For My Younger Self)



You have forgotten your muse.
You neglected her, in the hustle and bustle
of city life, in trying to carve a niche,
driving yourself too...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: go back, introspection, life, poetry, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bio:Closing Time,Memories



       CLOSING TIME AT THE PUB


The joy, the camaraderie, the smoke.
The great ale, my great friends in Chicago.
Old Town,...

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Categories: go back, chicago, friendship, memory, mental
Form: Bio
Premium Member Superstar
The adoring crowd here at Red Rocks amphitheatre awaits. Tonight, like every night, I will go out there and give them my best. They will...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: go back, addiction, anxiety, celebrity,
Form: Haibun
The Philosopher
*Based on Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Numb fists with bloody wrists 
chained to crumbling walls.
Glazed eyes that never spy 
a single truth or fault.
Dim light...

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Categories: go back, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Porcelain Doll
Porcelain doll, with a face so pretty 
a country gal, ran away to the city 
Worked in a bar, dancing on tables 
beat shovelling sh-it,...

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Categories: go back, age, allusion, girl, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Lottery Winner Helps Homeless
As I walked into the banquet hall of the 
 Goodman’s Inn, the first thing that stood
 out to me were the eyes of the...

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Categories: go back, care, celebration, christmas, giving,
Form: Narrative
The Ghost of My Lonely
Abandoned in the fifties after the war
A freight elevator stuck between floors
Obsolete machinery, splintered old chairs
In a warehouse in Newark, New Jersey somewhere

Dead air presses...

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Categories: go back, dream, me, mystery,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Hopeful
Time to go home there’s that cursed bell
Excitement for most - for him an impending hell
A torturous journey - that takes him down life’s dark...

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Categories: go back, anti bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Playground
Playground…

Playground…
I am making decisions every morning,
None of them comes along with any warning.
To go right or to go left, which one is right?
Living in darkness...

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Categories: go back, age, allusion, anger,
Form: Masnavi
Premium Member Tartan and Pipes
Tradition and dress
A nations finesse
Symbolic in style
By a country mile
 
The drone of the pipes
Tartan clad
Bonnie on the girls
Proud on the lads
 
Highland dancers
In kilted...

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Categories: go back, history, inspirational, passion, places
Form: Rhyme

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