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Best Old Love Poems

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Premium Member Moving Lightly
I move lightly at sixty,
a little less than the max.
Any faster, and the sunflower shells I spit
blow back in my face,
and any slower and the...

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Categories: old love, allegory, introspection, life, seasons,
Form: Free verse



Swimming In Blood
Did I know this dissention might come to be?
Yes I was aware of its probability.
Did that make me any more prepared for the situation?
No I...

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Categories: old love, lost love, me, old,
Form: Free verse
For Grandmomma Pt 2
Con't from Pt 1

At two years old your motherly instincts took me away./ What could my "mother" say,/ she 
was married to a man who...

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Categories: old love, death, loss, love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Attraction Fate
	Any ~~ old or recent~~ love poem... the most loving poem... you've ever written  p.d.

Attraction Fate 

The law of attraction, when two worlds embrace,
The...

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Categories: old love, adventure, old, love, old,
Form: Rhyme
Special Forces
I ain't like nothing you ever heard before
 I tell you what when I get done
we'll see if you still feel the same


know im known,...

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Categories: old love, baptism, courage, tribute, old,
Form: Rhyme



On My Eighty Fifth Birthday
On My Eighty Fifth Birthday

Another Birthday…I’m still alive
Never thought that I’d survive
To the ripe old age of Eighty Five!
But here I am…feisty still
Even though I’m...

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Categories: old love, birthday, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Personification
Midnight Wandering
One Saturday I went walking through the deep dark woods at night
It was clear and cool, the stars were out , the moon shone bright...

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© Jim Joyce  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: old love, fear, old, love, old,
Form: Free verse
Roses Are Red
Roses are red 
Violets are blue
It's the same old poem
that means nothing to you.
I thought your love was strong.
I thought your love was true.
I guess...

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Categories: old love, love, old, love, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grandma's Attic
What better way to spend a rainy afternoon in May,
Than with Grandma in her attic where precious memories lay.
This was her treasure trove, cherished things...

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Categories: old love, nostalgiawedding, old, love, old,
Form: Rhyme
Come Back To Life
My resurrection of the dead
Are old pictures and what she said
A silent echo and an image framed
The place for my love that bared her name
I...

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Categories: old love, devotion, old, love, old,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Invisible Man
The end of us breaks open both old and new cracks in my heart.
How come I couldn't see where my blind love would lead us,
Ending...

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Categories: old love, angst, loss, lost love,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Country In Me--Redux
Muscadine grape vine
entwine...smell of bovine
forest edge
sedge
briars growing down the line.

I love the country
The country loves me
I’m as rock solid planted 
As my hundred year old...

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Categories: old love, people, old, love, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As Good As Any Place
I had been in town about a month or so
And I was thinking ‘bout settling down
After fifty years of always on the go
This was as...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: old love, song-old, love, old,
Form: Rhyme
The Yowah Addiction
Midst the mulga and the gidyea out beyond the old Paroo 
runs a road which leads to Yowah and a great place it is too....

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Categories: old love, funny, people, places, old,
Form: Narrative
Love Rekindled
Lovers each parted their ways,
Tears cause misty sprays.
Colder grew them both,
Love amid them was now an old growth.

Lovers wear on their poignant face a pair...

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Categories: old love, imagination, life, loss, lost
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs