Best Look Backward Poems
Below are the all-time best Look Backward poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of look backward poems written by PoetrySoup members
River StonesThese are the stones
that ground nails and sharpened talons,
they have slid under mountains of ice and fire,
have been polished by the glacial dead.
The stones endure...
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Categories:
look backward, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Spring FowardSilence, the power of noise that brings stillness to the ear
Power, the audacity of every man’s desire to manipulate
Resilience, what a way to bounce-back, the...
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Categories:
look backward, inspiration,
Form:
List
Contemporary Ode To a Mother Crying Out To Her ChildrenIn the presence of all to see, her world turns
and runs red with the blood of her children:
Blood flowing like a wandering stream.
The bloated bellies...
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Categories:
look backward, africa, allegory, analogy, cry,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Happy BirthdaySaying Happy Birthday to you
Really flatters you and me too
Wishing you a joyous day
Memorable… Never to fray
Do enjoy every bit of it
Until you fall in...
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Categories:
look backward, happinessbirthday, jesus, love,
Form:
Light Verse
A Look InwardA Look Inward
For all I ever once was
all I ever want to be,
fleeting mists singing
and rising fogs in morn
sunset views triumphant;
resting deep inside of me
shadows...
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Categories:
look backward, celebration, family, hope, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Silas Laughed Lastly.......On "the Death of the Hired Man" By Robert Frost“Poor Silas, so concerned for other folk,
And nothing to look backward to with pride,
And nothing to look forward to with hope,
So now and never any...
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Categories:
look backward, introspection, life, on writing
Form:
Free verse
ProphecyAmid the deceit and pain of this modern era,
one will be born
who shall embody bygone times and ways;
he will want naught more than an uncomplicated...
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Categories:
look backward, introspection, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
CrushingHey boy, I’m crushing on you;
Why is that so hard to admit to?
You once said you were under my skin,
I guess it’s time to tell...
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Categories:
look backward, crush, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Shadows In the DarkShadows in the dark are now what I see
Murky pictures of the loved ones no more with me
I stare at them with a trembling heavy...
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Categories:
look backward, angel, dark, death, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
The Covered BridgeThe covered bridge
The lover’s refuge
When in a huge crisis
The knife cuts into slices
The birds inside the ribs
When in a deluge
All the resource to be used...
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Categories:
look backward, beauty, bereavement, destiny, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
We Just Come Here and Go - Original By Rabindranath TagoreWe just come here and go
And go with the time's flow!
We only see things
And touch while going
And look back crying!
Only new bleak hopes
Take...
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Categories:
look backward, life, mystery, philosophy, song-
Form:
Rhyme
Evil EconomiesMore humans are needed, to have a good economy
so the powerful have seeded, that of a root, to be greeded
The greed of money, directs everyone...
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Categories:
look backward, earth, money, nature, political,
Form:
Rhyme
ReminiscenceOnce upon a time undefined by algorithm
In your arms you had me
As we slow dance to mild blues
Our hand and legs in a lover's...
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Categories:
look backward, dance, devotion, first love,
Form:
Rhyme
In Search of Yesterday"recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown ..."
Quote by _Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We often say that time waits on none...
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Categories:
look backward, memory, time,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
The LightThe light comes on
You can see the road
But you know not how long
You will carry the load
Don’t look backward or forward
Or stray side to side...
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Categories:
look backward, faith,
Form:
Rhyme