Best Recapture Poems


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 me it means searching for things of wond......

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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 really dare…
No one......

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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.

     But she seemed deaf and pref......

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Categories: recapture, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry


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 reflections of that clear brook
evident in our irises,
where we thought......

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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 fidelity
Or how you will adore me through eternity

Speak not ......

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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 once rose two hundred fe......

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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 room, the sound of a tea kettle's whistle,  the ......

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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 far

like a c......

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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 center from the mind you got this
a tender swept deal amidst the pain zero in o......

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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 best...
My Yum Yum girl
Sweeter than molasses
Shining and ......

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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, and kind.

The rainbow, the blossoms, sweet s......

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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 scratched eyes
Sl......

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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 all.
And recapture memories that years cannot reca......

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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 with creeping ivy 
Into it......

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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 nature’s endocrines had been released
 
Flooding our world with cata......

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Categories: recapture, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
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