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Best Recapture Poems

Below are the all-time best Recapture poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of recapture poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Life Through a Child's Eyes
finding shapes in clouds
or four-leaf clovers in fields . . .
the child’s eye searches

What does it mean to view life through a child’s eyes? For...

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Categories: recapture, child,
Form: Haibun



Dare We
 ~Dare We~
Side by side in the full moonlight, looking up in wonder
Shoulders rubbing, breaths, mingling hands begin to wander
Daringly we looked together, would we...

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Categories: recapture, funny, me,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Whisper
The balmy breeze wafted over the prairie,
Where yellow cowslips huddled in patches.
And here and there I heard a whisper echoing:
Love her, love her, love her.

...

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Categories: recapture, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Again
I see that acacia tree 
and I get vacuumed back to the past.

When we both had 
a different type of light in our eyes,
with the...

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Categories: recapture, recovery from..., me, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Speak Not To Me
Speak not to me of love, I cannot bear to hear
The fervent pleas you stoop to whisper in my ear
Speak not to me proclaiming staunch...

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Categories: recapture, betrayal, lost love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Photogragh of a Redwood Stump In Sepia
 The human spirit needs places where
nature has not been rearranged
by the hand of man
Author Unknown

A metal rail now mocks the space

where a massive trunk...

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Categories: recapture, environment, nature, sad, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member School's Out
Trying to recapture the joy of those winter days is difficult. School cancelled: sun shining through the sheer, white, curtains into an all too girlie...

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Categories: recapture, kiss, snow,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Dream Keeper
dreams tucked in my pocket as I journey through life

sometimes swept away by chilling breezes

but reach for them again, I will

recapture them

they’ve taken me this...

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Categories: recapture, introspectionme,
Form: Free verse
Rocky
each of us is naked inside our clothes left as a tender rose as you suppose
an untimely gift so you get my drift in a...

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Categories: recapture, appreciation, art, rap,
Form: Free verse
Yum Yum Girl
Who said the sun rises in the East?
That's not true in the very least....
The Sun rises and sets in the West
Where does dwell the very...

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Categories: recapture, girlfriend-boyfriend, happiness, love, passion,
Form: Lyric
Fading Love
You gave me a magic walk in the rain
Those beautiful sunsets time and again
You gave me glimpses of your beautiful mind
Love that is gentle, tender,...

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Categories: recapture, lost love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Empty Portrait
Once I dared render
A trapping of quintessence
To hold fast all that is you
Somewhere upon my canvas

To capture your beauty
In pastels of feigned adoration 
From charcoaled...

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Categories: recapture, life, love, passion, people,
Form: Free verse
Words
Words can paint colors no artist hand can draw.
Express such emotions which fill others with awe.
Describe a scene so vividly that one can see it...

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Categories: recapture, introspection, on writing and
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Palace of Aloneness
A Palace of Aloneness.

This palace of aloneness is not my home. 
It's bricks know only the time of run-off bygones.
Transition past it's thousand entrances 
Impaired...

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Categories: recapture, endurance, feelings, loneliness, longing,
Form: Free verse
Advent of Spring
ADVENT OF SPRING 

It was as though a sign had been received.     

The master plan, held back, now caused enaction

As if...

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Categories: recapture, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things