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Best Lost In Thought Poems

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Premium Member As Fields Become Barren
What has become of me?
Like a madman laughing in the rain,
wandering through fields of barley,
where ghosts whisper my name.

Hesitantly venturing forward,
reluctant to turn back,
loved ones...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lost in thought, analogy, death,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Autumnal
I remember clinging on to the naked branch,
which had been my home since the season of birth.
In my days of botanical glory,
flourishing and nourishing in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lost in thought, analogy, autumn, innocence, perspective,
Form: Personification
Premium Member My Darling Little One, You Carried Me
A hardened and disciplined man drove to the grocery store lost in thought, 
with setting of sun, the long day's work almost found it's end.
Hoisting...

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Categories: lost in thought, child, dad, daughter, father,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Imagination
A muddy toad 'ribbits,'  
before leaping away -
to which I ponder,
if fairy tales were true,
who's 'Prince Charming.' would you be?

I smile,
in the quiet pond's reflection.
I can see...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lost in thought, imagination,
Form: Imagism
When Love Is Forever
Resting on the beige leather couch
 next to the dimly lit tiffany lamp
He dozed off into an early night sleep

She smiled looking at him
 as...

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Categories: lost in thought, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Frozen Soul In Silent Stillness
Like a frozen soul in silent stillness,
crisp mist returns like forgotten debris.
Carpet of scarlet leaves lay on green grass,
dew drops seem like tears from crying...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lost in thought, angst, confusion, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love blooms in four seasons

In my past existence,
circumstance sowed my roots
deep into woods of foreign soil,
slowly I ascended spreading my wings,
yearning to be evergreen,
blossoming in summer with glossy verdant...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lost in thought, analogy, emotions, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Man Called Leo
I tread between green mounds of decay
surrounded by rows of engraved stone.
Lost in thought, I lose track of the day
for I’ve seldom felt quite so...

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Categories: lost in thought, anxiety, emotions, father son,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Gift
From the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lost in thought, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Odyssey
"Human mind knows no constraints. Without spending time or money, one can make an odyssey into the outer space and even into other planets. What...

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Categories: lost in thought, adventure, moon, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chill Evening Mist
He almost said it, that one sweet word, but a moment lost it would not stay.
He reached for her hand, she lost in thought, pulled...

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Categories: lost in thought, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Holding a Wilting Red Rose
I carried it on my lap all the way to you,
    The bus ride was so long, so long, Mom;
Lost in old...

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Categories: lost in thought, death, mother, mothers day,
Form: Verse
The Visit
Go ahead, you freaking coward, I thought. You drove all this way, with your new 6" GPS. Now you’re a bowl of jello who can't...

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© Tom Arnone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lost in thought, best friend, death, first
Form: Narrative
Premium Member One Step Closer To the Edge
Beset by doubts before I rise from bed
Problems prey on my worrisome mind 
My ability to reason has been maligned
Cockamamie notions fill me with dread

I...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lost in thought, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member We Pass Each Other
He approaches fast

We bump - silly heart beats wildly
Him - lost in thought- No word of apology
We pass each other

He approaches fast

Eyes so blue -...

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Categories: lost in thought, crush, emotions, fantasy, teenage,
Form: Verse

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