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Best Loved And Lost Poems

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Loved and Lost -
To love
Is to remember
The touch of your hand
Your voice
When you called me cariad

My mouth remembers your kiss
The feel of your lips 
Sensual touch of your...

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Categories: loved and lost, lost love, love,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Tissue Box
like visitors from outer space
they came with tears, and lined the sidewalk
long in face, and arms embracing
some (I have no inkling) who
they were or why...

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Categories: loved and lost, child, cry, daughter, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Solitude Is My Silent Saviour
No one understands the reason for living,
many prefer to receive without giving.
In a world full of selfish behaviour,
solitude has become my silent saviour.

Instruments are repressed...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loved and lost, angst, love, solitude,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Mortality's Own Friend
(Inspired by Abe Lincoln’s poem “Memory”)

Mortality's Own Friend

So sadly here, among the dead,
I live - mortality's own friend.
Recalling all that's lost, I tread
so sadly here,...

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Categories: loved and lost, memory,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Fool of a Poet
the times I've been here, words in hand
          mind-sculpting verse of phrases, grand
   ...

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Categories: loved and lost, heartbreak, introspection, love, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Spirit of Christmastide
Spirit of Christmastide
Beneath the mantel's alabaster gleam
Where verdigris flames pirouette 
     in cerulean ballet's beam...
We gather close—a familial love—
In hallowed halls...

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Categories: loved and lost, christmas, december, joy, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member :: Box of Treasures ::
I pull down from the shelf
The beautiful box of treasures
Ornately carved
Warm, yet well worn 
To the gentle touch of my fingers

There is no rush
As I...

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© Sam Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loved and lost, family, friendship, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stream of Memories
Oh tell me where they are, the ones I miss
The ones I long to touch with ardent kiss
Where are the ones my heart is longing...

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Categories: loved and lost, missing you,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
My Mind a Ship In Darkness
My mind a ship in darkness                   ...

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Categories: loved and lost, adventure, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Eve of Eternity
She couldn't contain her rhapsody demeanor much more
hugging her husband and gushing with excitement as he closed the door
the third class cabin was modest but...

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Categories: loved and lost, boat, death, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Last Sigh of Goodbye
    "Last Sigh of Goodbye"



charming candlelight lost radiant glaze
emotions vanished into twilight dust
broken pieces of heart swallowed in maze
as passionate masquerade died...

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Categories: loved and lost, love, lost, goodbye, betrayal,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Life Memories
we have loved deeply

                     ...

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Categories: loved and lost, death, love,
Form: I do not know?
Famous Sayings
There’s many famous sayings I’ve heard
I’m sure you’ve heard them to,
So see if you remember
As I mention just a few.

There’s “Home is where the heart...

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Categories: loved and lost, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 'raising a Glass To You'
Here is to those who tiptoed out of my life 
Without explaining what I did wrong 
In order for me to do it better next...

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Categories: loved and lost, growth, life,
Form: Free verse
Time To Move On -
if she permitted
i would have curled in a ball
in a dark closet somewhere
and wept my whole life
“too many tears are too much“
“grief is a bottomless...

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Categories: loved and lost, bereavement, son,
Form: Choka

Book: Reflection on the Important Things