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Best Irretrievable Poems

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Irretrievable
I stroll a silvered landscape
where trees are silhouetted spears,
stabbing memories of days first walked with you . . .
ice traceries, firey strands of longing lace,
wrap...

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Categories: irretrievable, betrayal, desire, loss, memory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Irretrievable Love
"You will forget me, the love we once shared 
Has vanished in the attempt at disguise         ...

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Categories: irretrievable, lost, love,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member The Formidable Gambit
"The Formidable Gambit"



Silence 
calculated and distinct

conspiring with rules
plays within the 
confined squares

of a strict and
ruthless mind
preying on all moves

untraceable 
unpredictable 
irretrievable 

in the opening move
the...

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Categories: irretrievable, courage, dark, faith, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Puzzle Stomped
"Puzzle Stomped"



Pieces scattered
placed on a table 
with boundaries 

between 
the incarcerated margins 
there are strict conditions

Time drips 
its wet connection
each piece a stair fitted 

imperfectly
perfect...

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Categories: irretrievable, dream, fate, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Big Guns
"The Big Guns"



A woman goes into war
with the matrimony of 
Life and Death 
a wound left empty
a gash pushing up 
daisies where bleeding
seeds don’t bloom...

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Categories: irretrievable, adventure, fun, romance,
Form: Free verse



Bereft
Priceless pearls scattered as the necklace
Was snapped, ripped away by greedy
Hands, envious of your sublime beauty
And even gentler encouragement. Bounc’d
Every one of them cross cobblestones,...

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Categories: irretrievable, betrayal, heartbroken, hurt,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Giving Me Hope and Faith
I once was childlike, pure of thought. I tasted and opened my eyes to the world; became flesh. Within myself, I occasionally lose all aspects...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: irretrievable, spiritual,
Form: Haibun
The Things You Do
Time to let this go 
The things you do 
The things I know 
The things that hurt me too 

These years 
So many tears 

I...

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Categories: irretrievable, angst, wife, heart, heart,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member An Easter Prayer
An Easter Prayer
(Esoteric Meaning of Christmas)

Let not the sun rise so high
that I may never again reach
its light -- 

nor set so low
that my spirit...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: irretrievable, christian, christmas, easter, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Idea Is To
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: irretrievable, angst, courage, fear, grief,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Half a Heart
You died, thus half of me died,
and my pain is unbearable!
There is nothing anyone can say or do
that can ease that hurt,
or bring me a...

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Categories: irretrievable, death, emotions, feelings, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Savior of Torch Lake
Arms and legs peddling struggling
I tread
In the middle of the lake

There is 300 feet of blue water
Between the soles of my feet
And the 10,000 year...

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Categories: irretrievable, angel, death, destiny, july,
Form: Free verse
Im Lost In Love Without Your Heart To Show the Way
Without your friendship I have gone astray

I'm lost in love without your heart to show the way

Roaming around I watched adulation turn dire

Looking for you...

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Categories: irretrievable, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Words and Void
I'm trying to write about something specific for a change.
''I'm bored,  and suffocating in a desert
Of dull yearnings that gulp down my stale breath
Full...

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Categories: irretrievable, emotions, introspection, words,
Form: Free verse
World Assimilators
World Assimilators

More and more to our suburban sprawl
Proliferating roads with rush hour crawl.
Crush of humanity completely unfurled
Replacing an irretrievable natural world
Along with farm lands never...

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Categories: irretrievable, creation, death, earth, environment,
Form: Shape

Book: Shattered Sighs