Best Remembers Poems

On day full of doom and gloom
With no strength to leave my room
With no hope to look towards light
With darkness closing in at night
I remember…..

When my heart floods with despair
Burdened by my load of care
When the rose has but a thorn
Wishing I were never born
I...

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mystic clouds at night
beneath an amber sun
casts a lovely glow..

her face illuminated
as tears freely fall
she trembles..

~as she remembers~

a sky of twinkling stars
which once guided her way
now dull, broken shards..

she falls to her knees
as the tide edges closer
cold and unforgiving..

his soft words
once a safe cocoon
now strife...

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A Place to Remember

A wooden rocker remembers summer
Building sandcastles on distant sands
Wet towels, sunburns, sandy feet
Fireworks - s'mores; summer stars - barbecues -
Lullabies sung in its lap.

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I'm a child of the '60's,
not quite a flower child, 
never really a hippie
(though my ponytail
drove my uncle nuts!)
but still I ate the ever
crunchy Beatles for 
breakfast, lunch, dinner 
and roasted the Stones
whenever a lady came by.

I was free then or so
I told myself, free...

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"Love Remembers Love"



When the love thieves arrived
in the darkness and 
plundered my gypsy life
betrayal 
sang songs 
of sweetness

In the time when 
the double-headed Jabberwock
thought I was deaf and blind

I had everything in place
Soothsayer'd over a decade ago
the heart gave assurances
to remain strong in silence 
for...

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My love has not diminished.
I would not want to pursue, evoke 
feelings of shadowed prey or some craving 
to a fabricated addiction… I accepted that 
you had grown weary and would not want 
that I linger or impede future chances 
at love or romance.

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There is...

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Losing a loved one is never easy
The worst pain one have to endure
The ones left behind shattered
As their tears drop to the floor

Her last days wasn't easy
And it was hard to watch her fade away
So many prayers went up 
For her to heal and begging...

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Even while we sit waiting 
              Intimations of a new dawn 
are beginning to cut through  our darkness
   Trouble, violence 
and uncertainty 
    will surely fade...

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The sky was blue, a beautiful day.
The sun sparkled bright on the water beyond.
She sat in the grass, admiring the display.
She wondered if there were fish in the pond. 
Grey marble lined up in long, even rows.
Names and dates, husband, father, brother, son,
Wife, mother, sister,...

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A teenage girl, a bit of a flirt.
Lying on a beach blanket,
Yes,  that one~ right over there!
Can you see that bubbling brunette?

Lays back down in her two piece,tartan, 
bathing suit.
White-heart shaped glasses cover her eyes.
She rubs sun lotion on her dancer's thighs.

He cannot see her...

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Manchester remembers,
The twenty-two lives that were taken,
Two years on,
Their memories never to be forsaken,
Manchester remembers,
Not just the twenty-two,
Prayers go out to the survivors,
Thoughts are with all of you.
Manchester remembers,
How the City came together,
A force to be reckoned with,
No matter who, what or whether.
Manchester remembers,
The feeling...

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           the river forgets
         each stone it 
             k i s s e s 
...

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I met ANGIE in a bar where grief drank quiet,
where HONKY TONK WOMEN spilled perfume and regret.
She moved like WILD HORSES with nowhere left to run—
said, “I’m safer UNDER MY THUMB than out in the open.”

She kissed like a dare and left like smoke.
On RUBY...

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The sea was a whisper before it was water,
cleaved through the wind.
I stepped into its silver mouth,
waves curling something pressing in
a wistful longing for a past I never knew.

Seagulls traced ethereal designs across the expanse
their wails scattered like fragments.
Somewhere underneath the foam,
the past was fossilized...

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Written: August 14, 2025

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River answers cloud with shimmer, and cloud
with a hush that folds into silver—

a breath that rises through its forgetting,
still and wild, akin to an unspoken name.

Between echo and echo,...

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