Best Memory Poems
Below are the all-time best Memory poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of memory poems written by PoetrySoup members
House On Memory LaneFeeling nostalgic, I went back home
To a house on Memory Lane
A sentimental trip, through the years that have flown
To a three bedroom, small white, wood...
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Categories:
memory, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Sleepless NightSleepless Night
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Teardrops, bagged eyes, a way of sin
The mirror reveals a lost eternal soul
A conniving move against tonight's phantom glow
Voices circle around the insomniac moon
Like...
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Categories:
anger, death, farewell, memory,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
LeafFloating down with grace and ease
Carried off by the Autumn breeze
Rich in hues of orange and red
Landing in the flower bed
What once was buzzing full...
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Categories:
memory, nature,
Form:
Sonnet
Amberina Ballerina
A born lioness
my untamed heart.. ha!
wild this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on a dare...
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Categories:
memory, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Once Upon a Purple SunriseOnce Upon a Purple Sunrise
Pretty as a Periwinkle,
in your frilly summer frock,
the one with purple polka dots
that matched the cool of early dawn.
Haloed in hazy...
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Categories:
memory, morning, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Coffee Colored MemoriesIt's quiet whisper stirs my languid mind
Inviting coffee colored memories
A young man's face with future yet defined
Each vapored breath a page in history
Familiar apparitions reappear
Whose...
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Categories:
memory, morning,
Form:
Sonnet
The RideThe old man looked a little out of place
Astride his pony on the carousel
A smile from yesterday across his face
As if he were entranced in...
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Categories:
imagination, memory, sad,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Recalling HerIt is thirty six years ago, and I am with her in the garden,
where July is a picnic of egg sandwiches, cress-stippled,
fuzzy-downed peaches, yellow-tangy lemonade.
Her...
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Categories:
grandmother, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Thoughts from the Battlefield
In sandy dunes on my back I lie
Dreaming of warm beaches, blue sky
And a girl named Lorelei
On memories I fly
War seen from on high
I...
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Categories:
memory, war,
Form:
Nonet
From Dovecote HillFROM DOVECOTE HILL
From Dovecote Hill, my thoughts spill down on drowsy mill-town streets
and run the maze of alleyways where once my youthful feet
traced winding paths...
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Categories:
home, memory, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Collector
I am a hoarder of antiquities,
offering longevity to ephemera.
Obsessed with an insatiable
urge for accumulation
I fill every available nook
stacking layer upon layer
of emotional possessions…...
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Categories:
memory,
Form:
Free verse
Dusty Old BooksA book that I plucked
from an antiquity of books
filled my nostrils
with a smell that I will always know
and always love.
This love cannot be explained,
but neither...
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Categories:
memory,
Form:
Free verse
When I Dream DeepAs the mornings sun - begins to shine
And memories of yesterday - I leave behind
I get to see - another rising sun
And...
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Categories:
memory,
Form:
Rhyme
BIO:CLOSING TIME,MEMORIES
CLOSING TIME AT THE PUB
The joy, the camaraderie, the smoke.
The great ale, my great friends in Chicago.
Old Town,...
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Categories:
chicago, friendship, memory,
Form:
Bio
White CaneHe walked down Goverment Road West
With a white cane, in shaking hand
Wearing Stevie wonder glasses
People called him the pop bottle man
With a white cane, in...
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Categories:
community, history, memory,
Form:
Pantoum
Sand Dollar DreamsIt's quiet here - quiet in a way that catches me off guard. The tranquility is almost tangible, something I can touch and hold and...
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Categories:
memory, nature,
Form:
Haibun
A Purple RibbonMementos in a box, from years gone by
Thought to have been disposed of long ago
A glance, when something purple caught my eye
A ribbon from someone...
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Categories:
first love, happy, memory,
Form:
Sonnet
The Bard of GortSpringing free from glistening
Fronds
The summers heat leaps for
Height;
Whilst drifting obscurely far
Above
A distant lark now hangs in
Flight.
Floats down his sweet trill,
Accompanied by...
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Categories:
memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Sleepwalking
I long to fold my eyes and softly creep
...
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Categories:
dream, fantasy, memory, remember,
Form:
Sonnet
Lady On the Church StepsI had seen her before in the spring and summer
The homeless lady sitting on the church steps
She would ask for help from people going into...
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Categories:
memory, appreciation, christmas, december, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
The Packing of a Suitcase Consider, Recall, Reflect, Hesitate, Tremble
Before your life's vast sweep.
...
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Categories:
memory, destiny, journey, life, meaningful,
Form:
Free verse
A Wild RoseThis bridge has arched the lake's narrows
for a century, flanked on either side
by Autumn trees shedding their faded leaves,
blowing with the first snowflakes
across worn gray...
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Categories:
death, memory, winter,
Form:
Free verse
ABANDONED
I'd married at 21 and moved overseas with my husband's work, so it had been many years since I had visited my gran at Rose...
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Categories:
growing up, house, memory,
Form:
Haibun
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:
memory, missing you, passion,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
OLD PHOTOGRAPHS
Opening the dusty leather bound album
Lots of memories come flooding back
Dad had a lot more hair back then!
Proud parents when our son was born
How he’s...
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Categories:
memory,
Form:
Acrostic