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Best Look Back Poems

Below are the all-time best Look Back poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of look back poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Its a Part of Me
Our lives are not immune to the impact of time,
nor is our mind between the tensions of love and hate.
That's why I curse this wanderlust...

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Categories: look back, emotions, introspection, life,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Even In Silence We Have Our Words
sometimes
we are afraid to jump
but we take the leap

sometimes
when we fall deeply
it's not our limbs injured

sometimes
what is meant for us
hurts too much

sometimes
nothing makes sense
confusion reigns...

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Categories: look back, philosophy, poetry, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Black Cloak
It's like a black cloak around our world bringing misery and death
Virologists are saying " you ain't seen nothing yet" 
If only our leaders would...

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Categories: look back, death, evil, goodbye, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forget Our Hearts Visions
Now that only forgotten promises remain,
sounds of solitude are gifts I wish to obtain.
Sentiments are temporary in a world full of change,
affections are wasted in...

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Categories: look back, emotions, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Lyric
A Need To Be Somewhere Else
I’m the one who needs to be somewhere else, 
I cannot stay in one place.
The grass is green where I’ve never been
and never have shown...

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Categories: look back, moving on,
Form: Rhyme



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: look back, adventure, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Are One
We Are One


Dear Ancient Sister
I hear your distant calls finding me on a gentle breeze
You have lived in my dreams for many seasons

My voice 
Your...

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Categories: look back, blessing, celebration, community, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Train - POTD
 POTD 25 Nov 2020

Manage your Stress … a peeling faded poster boldly declares 
I do get it about advertising campaigns. 
Enough to know that,
‘strategically...

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Categories: look back, lost love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Memories In the Sand
If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry...

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Categories: look back, memory, missing you, passion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Holding Back the Time
In visions of yesteryear where there was love
Nothing but despair on the faces of hope
And shattered remains of a romantic fairytale
Whose happy ending has been...

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Categories: look back, lost love, sensual,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Letter from the Grave
Is the ship
still in its bottle..

Have your lips 
become dry,
tired from yearning.
Do you still wear 
my sage shirt.

Are you still crying,
are all those tears for...

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Categories: look back, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shattering Rose Glasses
Uncomplicated me
I thought I was coloured blind
free thinking and kind
with an evolved mind
Loving and accepting 
of the ones I find

Yet my blindness 
Is that of...

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Categories: look back, education, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Last Love Letter To the West
I can't recall the day you left
 Empty words going west

~To The West Coast~

My love, my sweet love -- my soulmate
I will cherish our time,...

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Categories: look back, deep, feelings, heart, leaving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shattering Rose Coloured Glasses
Uncomplicated me
I thought I was colour blind
free thinking and kind
with an evolved mind
Loving and accepting 
of the ones I find

Yet my blindness 
Is that of...

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Categories: look back, betrayal, black african american,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Butterflies
BUTTERFLIES

Clouds passing by swiftly.
Like the desert sands,
tiny grains rest in my hand.
Here I lay peaceful on the ground.
My life finally reached its final strand.
Breathing faintly...

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Categories: look back, death, life, me, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs