Best Look Back Poems

A Look Back at Eighteen Months Here-The Show is Over

When your poems reside in a shoe,
like mine,
pounding the pavement to nowhere.
The onset of blisters isn't imagined.
Those blisters take roots,
hindering your motivation
to move-
and to continue to write.
It hurts.
Seeing those poems take residence
in pity.
Sans the
comfort of
leather and...

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You don’t even look back, as I stand here in the rain,
I can see your shoulders shake as you walk towards the train, 
In-my-mind I see your mother, your walk, your hair the same,
But it’s you this time who’s leaving, will I see you again.
And...

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I remember how I would cry myself to sleep
Night after night then I would wake the next morning 
Dreading the moment I stepped into the 
School's doors where you would all be waiting.
You'd smile and pretend like we were the best of friends 
Till my...

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You played your pipe for me to dance,
as puppet master, worked the strings,
but today my heart will pirouette;
I am giving back the gold nose ring.

Last night I saw just how it is
Between yourself and naive me;
you are the wolf, I am the lamb
always destroyed ...

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A Deep And Saddened Look Back

On a very sad sunny day in summer's glory
that tragic ending came to our love story.
Midnight, a night filled with bright, full moon
misery blasted me that hot day in June!

Your phone call put me into epic shock
your hammer had just...

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Closer We Get, The Farther We Look Back

Sad dying embers of yesterday's feast 
interest and feed me not in the least 
For the hearty joys that future shall give 
heartens me to strive forever to live 

Great memories of my family's past 
flow blessedly with...

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Fingers linger
Thoughts flying everywhere and
Stumble
Crumble
What was I thinking, where does this 
word come from
How is it written
How come that in my head thousands of lines tumble
And not a word leaves my fingers

My thoughts fumble
What was I thinking, I cannot do this
They said I could never...

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A Look Back
 

Fleeting the moments of laughter and joy,
   Love promises so much more:
There is no finality in the life garnered
   Once we see the dread of its end.

So short were the days in the sun:
   Where shining...

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And some day you'll realize
That there too is a point of no return.
A point where you'll someday come
And looking back will be a thing of the past.
There are no layaways no payments plans
To genuinely be a blessing in someone else's life.
These things can't be repaid.
Can't...

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pain ...
the blood of her pen
a harlequin's hope ...
the thrum in her breast and being
no quarter given the issue of her barren womb
she looked back one last time
on the darkened house ...
things and thoughts and threadbare attentions
the labor of her love ... the love of...

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I can’t turn back and look at the past
My journey into solitude started all too soon
Harsh words were spoken
And then silence …

All you needed to do was look at my eyes
Eyes are the windows to my soul
But you were just too blind to see
The real...

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It's hard to shut someone out
when hope comes calling at night.
But facing feelings of doubt,
is lying more wrong than right?

Anxiety's all too real,
hidden behind disguises.
And no matter how you feel,
hurt comes in varied sizes.

Broken hearts beyond repair
become reservoirs of pain.
But you feel that isn't fair,
and...

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Take a Step Forward and Don't Look Back


Drama of lover’s fears and tears.  
I place my hands up to my ears, 
Roll my eyes, and walk away,
Oh, why does it have to be this way? 
Why can't things ever change for us? 

~

I take...

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Don’t dwell on the past; it cannot be changed
Today is the day you can rearrange
Put today to use and create more good
Do your work in love like you know you should
Today can bring glory where life abounds
The time has come to share your love around
There...

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Never look back
Never reminisce fondly
on things that weren't good for you in life
Don't be like Lot's wife ... don't look back
Righteous Lot went down to the land of Sodom
and got him a wife,
who bare him two daughters
Those three were the love of his life
But Lot...

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