Best Recollection Poems
Below are the all-time best Recollection poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of recollection poems written by PoetrySoup members
An Eulogy of Sorts, That, Hopefully, Lends Itself To DaverDo not vainly look in those remote
Places,
That, once, were acquainted with a
Small part of me; ...
Read more of this work...
Categories:
recollection, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Held AloftWe'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...
Read more of this work...
Categories:
recollection, heartbreak,
Form:
Sonnet
NostalgiaNostalgia is a longing for a person or a place that evokes happy memories. Its an
Oasis for the soul that harbors in...
Read more of this work...
Categories:
recollection, appreciation, memory,
Form:
Acrostic
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...
Read more of this work...
Categories:
recollection, anniversary, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
recollection, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
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...
Read more of this work...
Categories:
recollection, death, funeral, grief, memory,
Form:
Free verse
August BlessingsGentle 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...
Read more of this work...
Categories:
recollection, appreciation, august, autumn, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
Orange Crush the Adventures of Soda PopMy earliest recollection was being placed in a Coca Cola cooler in a Barbershop in Virginiatown Ontario. I heard the sound of the Nickle being...
Read more of this work...
Categories:
recollection, child, color, crush,
Form:
Personification
Bittersweet MemoriesThose 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...
Read more of this work...
Categories:
recollection, first love, memory,
Form:
Sonnet
Jukebox GigoloOld 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...
Read more of this work...
Categories:
recollection, abuse, addiction, allegory, emotions,
Form:
Quatrain
Rebirth MeWicked memories haunt my dreams at night and stalk me during the daylight, denying me any measure of peace and tranquility. Please, take me to...
Read more of this work...
Categories:
recollection, hope, mental illness,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ten AgainSome things never skip beyond recollection,
instead, they hover in a secret closet of memories -
innocent moments when we had stopped to sniff...
...
Read more of this work...
Categories:
recollection, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
If My Life Flashed Before My EyesIf my life flashed before my eyes…
There would be a moment of sadness
Yet, there would be more joy and gladness
There would...
Read more of this work...
Categories:
recollection, inspirational, life, light, nostalgia,
Form:
Couplet
Senility's Tightrope Collab With CdShe 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...
Read more of this work...
Categories:
recollection, age, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
LanguishThe main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the...
Read more of this work...
Categories:
recollection, analogy, appreciation, heart, winter,
Form:
Rubaiyat