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Best Recollection Poems

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An Eulogy of Sorts, That, Hopefully, Lends Itself To Daver
Do not vainly look in those remote
Places,
That, once, were acquainted with a 
Small part of me;         ...

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Categories: recollection, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recollection, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Nostalgia
Nostalgia is a longing for a person or a place that evokes happy memories.  Its an  
Oasis for the soul that harbors in...

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Categories: recollection, appreciation, memory,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member 365 Days
"This is dedicated to all who understand this. Whether we like it or not." -D.J.E.

I wasn’t gonna write this

But

Emotions are stirring high
Cannot believe
How much time...

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Categories: recollection, anniversary, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Preoccupation
I search for you eagerly
in the shadows of your words

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Categories: recollection, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Listen To Jesus
One lives on the memory
Never letting it go
Always holding as a memorial
The recollection within
Where only the heart knows
To celebrate a life

One longs to just forget
And...

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Categories: recollection, death, funeral, grief, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member August Blessings
Gentle light flows through the pines,
Inviting the oaks, the laurels, to sigh,
Echoing soft breath, smoke rising –
Mist in the sky, a moment of silence
Breaks the...

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Categories: recollection, appreciation, august, autumn, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Orange Crush the Adventures of Soda Pop
My earliest recollection was being placed in a Coca Cola cooler in a Barbershop in Virginiatown Ontario. I heard the sound of the Nickle being...

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Categories: recollection, child, color, crush,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Bittersweet Memories
Those memories of her, now bittersweet
Recalling tender moments that we shared
Young lovers' dreams which time can not defeat
Is proof down deep inside how much I...

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Categories: recollection, first love, memory,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Jukebox Gigolo
Old Zack Adams sits a slouch’n so sloppy drunk on a bar-room stool,
Wear’n his cheap-threaded cowboy suit and a stained satin shirt.
All the while a...

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Categories: recollection, abuse, addiction, allegory, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Rebirth Me
Wicked memories haunt my dreams at night and stalk me during the daylight, denying me any measure of peace and tranquility. Please, take me to...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recollection, hope, mental illness,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Ten Again
Some things never skip beyond recollection,
instead, they hover in a secret closet of memories -
innocent moments when we had stopped to sniff...
   ...

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Categories: recollection, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If My Life Flashed Before My Eyes
If my life flashed before my eyes…

There would be a moment of sadness
    Yet, there would be more joy and gladness

There would...

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Categories: recollection, inspirational, life, light, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Senility's Tightrope Collab With Cd
She sits in silence at the end of day
Beside the fire that barely warms the air
Her mind in anguish, threads that tend to fray
Companionless, within...

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Categories: recollection, age, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Languish
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: recollection, analogy, appreciation, heart, winter,
Form: Rubaiyat

Book: Shattered Sighs