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Best Living In The Past Poems

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Living In the Past
Play for me, Long May You Run,
to shed a tear and reminisce
of open roads when life begun,
to think of those now gone and missed.

Play for...

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Categories: living in the past, best friend, loss, love,
Form: Quatrain



Within His Heart
He lays there in his own world
Living on memories of the past
life as it is now, is just existing,
memories, are remembered at last

No longer knows...

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Categories: living in the past, confusion, life,
Form: Verse
Carry My Shadow
To stop her tears flowing endlessly, 
remembering eleven years ago,
a helpless injured body, beaten
By her own hands,
 smashed her head on the wall, 
 dripping...

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Categories: living in the past, anxiety, cry,
Form: Bio
Premium Member There's Never Been a Time
There's never been a time I didn't love you.
No time at all, and foolish as it seems,
No day goes by when I'm not thinking of...

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Categories: living in the past, first love, nostalgia,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Letter To My Future Self
Hi, how are you doing? Are you still living in the past?
Don't you know life’s hourglass is running out really fast?
I know you were dealt...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: living in the past, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Life's a Roller Coaster Ride
Hard to fathom what makes us tick
We're all unique as they say
One person loves rock and roll music
Another loves Sammy Kaye

Was always a true Glenn...

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Categories: living in the past, life, love,
Form: Quatrain
Soul Search
Today I seek the sun,
it's gentle painless play-
words of winter warmth
spur me on my way,
away from death wish,
daily things gone wrong.

Today I seek the sky...

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Categories: living in the past, appreciation, celebration, how i
Form: Carpe Diem
Second Hand Love
Second hand smoke can kill you
But so can second hand love
Like a jumper on top of a building
'Til someone gives him a shove

You compare me...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: living in the past, sadme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Golden Memories
Reflecting on one's past is commonplace
We weigh our choices with old lessons learned.
When looking in a mirror at our face
Our youth is scarred with wrinkles,...

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Categories: living in the past, memory,
Form: Sonnet
The Past Haunts Me
The past is what haunts me.
Its what kicks me down.
Its what follows me...
I used to get bullied at school, all the time.
And i have noticed,...

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Categories: living in the past, confusion, life, sad, teenme,
Form: Free verse
One Day
These long and lonely days
Are very dangerous roads
Too much time for me to ponder
Can my heart carry this load
Plenty of time has gone by now...

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Categories: living in the past, depression, girlfriend-boyfriend, hope, lost
Form: Rhyme
Another Drop In the Glass
Another drop in the glass.

I see things from my past, which seemed happy but turn bad fast, seeing new faces around my house all the...

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Categories: living in the past, addiction, anger, blue, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Get Onboard
Been late for the past few hours, girl get out the shower
This don't make no sense
Slow to get up hills
afraid of making spills
Don't mean that...

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© Ts Lewis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: living in the past, music, song,
Form: Lyric
My Mistake
I messed up
I made a mistake
Embarrassed beyond words
I was lost
Living in the past
Nothing I could say
No excuse can I give
I was caught in the moment
And...

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© Laura Ann  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: living in the past, lost love
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Yellow Wood
”Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler...”       ...

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Categories: living in the past, age, meaningful, time,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs