Best Past Poems
Below are the all-time best Past poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of past poems written by PoetrySoup members
Past-Life NightmareA child of four suffers recurring dreams,
disturbing parents and siblings with screams.
When she awoke, always sore in one knee;
next to a birthmark, it throbbed painfully.
Night...
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Categories:
past, autumn, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
past, autumn, family, house, life,
Form:
Narrative
Love Passing ByWhen the crimson rose has faded
And our day at last is done;
In the forest dark and shaded
Blows the tempest, dims the sun.
When the night holds...
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Categories:
past, love, love, pride,
Form:
Rhyme
A Cathartic Weave of Three
listen,
the whispers
of leaves
turn colour
autumn is here.
now that you are gone
who will wake every morn
to lift the sun
unveil the sky
etch in the clouds
who will paint the...
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Categories:
past, break up, celebration, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Conversation With My SoulDwell not, O soul, on yesterday,
on sorrows past and gone -
the sketch you drew so long ago,
today may be...
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Categories:
past, giving, love, wisdom,
Form:
Verse
HandsWith all the time on my hands, I gave my hands one job.
My Hands -The Artist-
My hands paint everything in my life
they...
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Categories:
past, anxiety, beautiful, beauty, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
At the Footbridge - Limerick CollaborationAt the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...
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Categories:
past, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
Sleepless NightSleepless Night
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:
past, anger, death, farewell, memory,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Like Zephyr BreezeBefore I ever saw those eyes How deeply I loved you.
Before you read my first thought ...
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Categories:
past, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Touch Me"In Touch With Myself"
I can't seem to find her
The reminder of yesterday
I shut my eyes for a few seconds
Only there, can I reach to bear...
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Categories:
past, absence, confusion, imagination, mirror,
Form:
Free verse
Dreams of IndiaDreams of India
Her music haunts me
in such a knowing way
it makes me weep
and causes my heart to ache.
I become homesick for her
scents, her sounds, her...
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Categories:
past, beauty, culture, desire, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Its a Part of MeOur lives are not immune to the impact of time,
nor is our mind between the tensions of love and hate.
That's why I curse this wanderlust...
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Categories:
past, emotions, introspection, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Whispers SharedYour time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...
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Categories:
past, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form:
Free verse
Eternal Life and the Total Self
Life is but a fleeting whisper echoing through time,
never dying, always being- magnificent and sublime.
The body's a receptacle, a superficial shell,
but in it dwells the...
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Categories:
past, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Quarantine of the Soul-Quarantine of the Soul-
Tranquil pills fall deep like the night
A sweet fangless course
Bites with no remorse
Your eyes struggle to read my ageless soul
Lost
Dark
You open...
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Categories:
past, depression, emo, future, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse