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Best Recollecting Poems

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


Wicked Web of Woes, Collaboration with Ink Empress
“Wicked Web of Woes” 

Is there a reason
to rhyme when 
lifeless fingers
breathe toxic agony,
whilst disgraced 
quill suffocates
from wildering 
riddles swerving to
the stillness 
of calcified air?...

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Categories: recollecting, life,
Form: Free verse



Soul Mates Solace
When my final shadows cling on desperately
Where I fight formidable battles
to merely hold the light
I send you loving vibrations
and soul sustenance
Deep from the cathedral
of one...

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Categories: recollecting, art, bereavement, body, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member So Much About Living She Has Learned Since
Grit in her eyes beaming fortitude of vibes
Powers her dash from one end to the other
Handing out drinks: brandy, whiskey, beer;
Serving high rollers and surly...

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Categories: recollecting, angst, courage, dad, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poet Must Brainstorm
" . . . madness . . .  retain,
Which rightly should possess a poet's brain."

Michael Drayton (1563-1631) 


a writer of poems must be quite...

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Categories: recollecting, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Day My Lover Left
A spiritual sickness enveloped my stagnant heart.
I searched for her in darkened obscure visions,
A futile illusory chase that led to a desert of love.
Had I...

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Categories: recollecting, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Autumn Pie
Apple pie, fresh from the oven
cools on a rack, whiffs of cinnamon-nutmeg
aroma rise through the pastry vent
then drifts out through
the kitchen window opened an inch...

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Categories: recollecting, autumn, food,
Form: Free verse
Sensitivity
SENSITIVITY

They’re all ignored by us, but they have feelings too :
A black  gravestone  in  New York, down in the world, 
Recalling its...

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Categories: recollecting, funnynight, old, beach, feelings,
Form: Free verse
A Mystic Rose Smile
A mystic rose smile that belonged to my mother this is what I recall   

My easel and I resting in the spirit, ...

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Categories: recollecting, appreciation, mom,
Form: Acrostic
R - Requisite
Restless restoration
Return
Remove all the rubble remaining from the rampant rift you released and retracted
Remember?
I recognized and revealed your ravishing rituals and repugnant relations 
Rippling into...

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Categories: recollecting, dark, feelings, imagery, relationship,
Form: Free verse
When Love Commands the Train Fulfills
What Love commands the train fulfills, 

The six thirty bounds to Coney Island 

Where the green Ubers awaits the passengers 

Morning greetings, (Urdu) of few...

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Categories: recollecting, absence, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
After a While
Waves of freezing emotions turning,
The cold, so powerful it feels like burning,
Uncontrollable flow of uncertainty,
Ice locking up efforts for comfort,
Feeling of urgency, of wasted chance...

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Categories: recollecting, confusion, hope, sad,
Form: Free verse
Winters Wind
So bashful to the wind the day sets at bay
recollecting the past of the stilled clay,
mounded mind distract the dew
observing the mountains in the view,
combusting...

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Categories: recollecting, nature, day,
Form: I do not know?
It's Me, Not You
It's You, Not Me 

*this poem can be offensive and has naughty words*

It's all my fault
I put a gentle halt
I'm cold in my skin
You are...

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Categories: recollecting, anxiety, beauty, betrayal, boyfriend,
Form: Lyric
Bride
Bride by Saiful Haq

Flowers odorizing her gown,
Gloomily shrouded Deepdown,
Mirrors fervoursly placed against her,
Beautifying her for her adorer.
 
Homage being paid by the trumpet player,
The Bride...

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© Saiful Haq  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recollecting, bridal shower,
Form: ABC
Sleepyhead
There is nothing like waking from a sleep
Slowly remembering parts of a dream
They are all yours and yours to keep
Woken up by a morning sunbeam

If...

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Categories: recollecting, funnymorning,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs