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Best Looking Back Poems

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


Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: looking back, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Best Paths Move Forward
The best paths move forward.
Don't waste your time looking back.
The things you've said, the things you've done,
Can never be brought back.

Don't waste the little time...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: looking back, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
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: looking back, memory, missing you, passion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Abigail's Spring - POTW
Abigail’s Spring  

Beneath the shelter of winter’s barren arbor
My winter abused heart
Watches the day’s light linger in the sky resisting darkness -
Begging to play...

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Categories: looking back, life, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To the Redwood
I was once a little twig with dreams of being a mighty tree
So people would come from all around just to look at me
As the...

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Categories: looking back, forgiveness, friendship, imagination, life,
Form: Personification



Premium Member In the Chill of An Open Door
Cleaning out my refrigerator, an ice cube slides to the floor
startling the cat, and interrupting a locomotive of thought
that often tracks me down in a...

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Categories: looking back, angst, caregiving, death, father,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member In Such Intense Flames, An Eternity May Be Born
In Such Intense Flames, An Eternity May Be Born

Hold your dreams, bind them with rainbow beams
tumble sweetly and let heart's passion arise
sow the seeds that...

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Categories: looking back, appreciation, art, care, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mirror Mirror
Your reflection is a liar
It makes no confessions 
The image reaches within
Cold fingers claw at your mind
A mirrored smile
Taunts you
Haunts you
No words spoken
Yet you hear...

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Categories: looking back, fantasy, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Intermingle
I wiped away a single tear
That had fallen from my eye
(You told me simply we were friends)
You left me after only a year
(But you conceal...

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Categories: looking back, loss, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Because of Just One Poetess
BECAUSE OF JUST ONE POETESS

I let go of living in sadness.
My life seemed going nowhere,
and looking back now, it all
seemed like madness!

It wasn't because she did
gymnastics...

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Categories: looking back, beautiful, celebration, encouraging, poetess,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Dust From the Past
Looking back again, back into the past, 
it was written in sand, all those questions we asked
on those last days of summer, something was wrong
as...

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Categories: looking back, age, memory, people, sad,
Form: Rhyme
A Tear Drop On a Rose
A Tear Drop on a Rose

For here I stand amongst the garden
Vines along the gated path
Songs of never left forgotten
Blooming in the aftermath

Thus I find...

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Categories: looking back, grief, heartbreak, loss, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pearl of a Great Price
Dancing with the sunbeams deep sea reflections 
so beautiful adoring on cloud nine sitting pretty 
upon golden sands shifting salt of the ocean turns 

Each...

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Categories: looking back, beautiful, blessing, creation, destiny,
Form: Terza Rima
Covered Silence
Empath whispers hold covered silence
desires whisk away with the moon
earth tone times of trepidation 
dragged off and hidden in the ruin

pain stains blush red under...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: looking back, character, confusion, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Imbedded In Pages
I picked up my tube of super glue
In hopes of piecing together
Sad lonely broken you
As I sifted through the bits
I wasn't sure what to do
Although...

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Categories: looking back, character, heartbroken, pain,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs