Best Looking Back Poems

BOOM!! Explosion,
   fire, smoke, serene...
As I realize what has happened;
  Just what i've done to me...
Focusing, I regain clear vision;
  As i'm gazing straight towards me,
  I see myself, Bloodied;
       Crumpled in a seat...
I...

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How do I tell them about your tiny fingers and toes?
The smell of your baby head on my chest?
The warmth of your skin as you slept in my arms?

How can they know of your first little words?
The times when only we knew what was funny?
The...

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You're spending time in isolation now
  Nobody comes to visit anymore
You've things to say, but really don't know how
  To get your message past the bedroom door

Try poetry! It's fun and it's quite cheap  
  Express yourself, whatever's on your mind
Plant...

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I stared along the littered street,
Recalled a former time,
Remembered walking hand in hand,
One day when you were mine.

And then I gasped and looked again -
I saw us standing there,
A younger you was kissing me,
I told myself,’ Beware.’

I stood alone and watched us kiss,
And couldn’t change...

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I don't know any happy
super rich people -- a
friend of wealth once 
told me: "See all this,
a huge property and
home, dripping gold
gilt, "I have nothing...."

I thought, myself spared
leaving, as I gave my vehicle
the usual primer finessing of
the gas pedal, before it would
prayerfully start -- 

Of...

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Dawn unfolds nicely
Darkness descends from the bed
Looking back at dreams

October 4, 2017...

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We were chasing each other through the woods,
behind the old neighborhood
where your parents still live.
I was heaving with bent-over laughter,
trying to catch up to your looking-back smile,
and then you disappeared into that opening
where the sun used to break through
during our childhood Summers,
shimmering across strained mirrors
and...

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I’ve not scaled the highest mountain, nor sailed the deepest sea,
But I’ve held my children in my arms and that’s enough for me.
I never walked upon the moon: repelled down steep ravines,
But the bedtime tale, told a little child, is far greater than it seems.

I...

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Life has been a journey looking back.
I was born into this world to watch my life begin;
Learning how to communicate with family and friends.
Like many trying to making sense of this emotion love and hate. 
There’s a retiring smile remembering those hopes and dreams.

I don’t...

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My past sits on a shelf, in pictures, books and letters
Occasionally I take it down, to make the present better
Those youthful days back at home, when life was in full bloom
Taken for granted they slipped away, while I chinned myself on the moon
Nameless faces and...

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Looking back it's no wonder why we had to leave
Such rhapsodic idyllic plethora, lost talisman
Felicity lost in radiant sapphire dulcet through
Our chrysalis once radiant, evenescent, blew



....

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Gazing into my bathroom mirror
My eyes looking back at me
Anguish and misery, all i see
Years just like groundhog day
Never seeing it any other way

Life is meant to be more than this
If only a genie, grant me a wish
We all experience pain this is true
Grant me...

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This photo is one of my favorites
                            Objects which are naturally decaying
      ...

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It's been 10 years today since you stood here with me.
Looking back now I realize I just couldn't see.
The pain and the torment you carried inside.
There was nowhere left to run and nowhere to hide.

Can we please spend sometime...just you and me
and try to recapture...

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Shadow Life

And the reaching
And the feeling
And the drops 
from the ceiling

On my head
On my shoulders
Weight of the 
world boulders

And the mornings
Not like night time
Offers brightness
But no lifeline

The mind calms in the dark
When it’s silent, 
And the silence is stark

And the reaching
Out for something
With this old...

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