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Best Reminiscence Poems

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The Return
The air is thick with memory -
A fog of reminiscence.
Or is it simply mist 
Rolling through the window? 
I feel the wind and taste the...

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Categories: reminiscence, childhood,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Unconquerable
midst the bosom of a once bountiful farm
lies the graveyard of my ancestors~
the gush of tears that flowed here- only the wind knows;
the willows by...

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© Jcb Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reminiscence, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Teats of Love
From a distant village, where forest lining the edges, where nature dancing with wild rhythms, where human existence have usual conflicts with minacious wild life,...

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Categories: reminiscence, animal, cute love, love,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Breakfast of Good-Bye
Breakfast of Good-bye


fine remnants softly linger
along the edges - reminiscence,
soft ruffling of a curtain
tickled by a warm summer breeze,
cold scent of passion’s pillow
pressed into the...

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Categories: reminiscence, emotions, lust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Worlds of Ice
Winter's whimsical nature comes with
     fickle freeze, cold pervading every fibre
How I remember you, red hot
     against...

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Categories: reminiscence, dream, love, memory, sleep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Clearing
It's summer, and sunlight's syrup pours sweet into afternoon.
We've come to the bungalow's cemetery
to pick over bones of bygone days;
touch time's tender skin, lay flowers...

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Categories: reminiscence, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Cold Moon Rising
Once again without my lover;
a cold moon is soon to be
For this I have some tension and
anxiety...

If only then I knew
that here would be a...

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Categories: reminiscence, anxiety, depression, loss, lost
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ice Cream Truck - First Place Contest Winner
In times gone by, in a land of dreams,
Where childhood thrived with laughter and gleams,
A story unfolded, enchanting and true,
Of mirthful times and dreams that...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reminiscence, analogy, childhood,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member INTERCEPTION
INTERCEPTION

Shadows waning distorted fading
Teasing tempting, a psychotic hack
Scheming concealing cerebral deceiving
Sun retreating behind shades of black

Memoirs succumbing, alpha notes strumming
Hope dwindling midst each laboured breath
Dusky-eyed...

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Categories: reminiscence, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Mask of Alabaster
Once the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Whence the winter woke me when the third was three in number.

I sense that a wince doth...

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Categories: reminiscence, anxiety, confusion, deep, dream,
Form: Couplet
A Time Travel Panorama
At the moment
Of my restless teenage run
Your eyes emanated lights of million stars
Many times the size of our Sun.
Frenzy feeling for clinging to you, singularity.
But...

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Categories: reminiscence, immigration, lost love, love,
Form: Verse
A Letter To Mrs. Frankenstein Phd
Tonight I speak to you,
with a sober mind that
keeps my memories vivid,
and a melancholy mood
that reflects the deepest
darkest depths of my
dangerous depression,
Sealed with heartache

 Stamped...

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Categories: reminiscence, depression, devotion, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Holy Land, Your Place, Your Flesh -
Would you crusade to remote regions
in search of that timeless tomb, the one made of seasalt & sandstone,
to towns tempered by the terror of war,...

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Categories: reminiscence, faith, prayer,
Form: Didactic
A Walk On the Beach
Morning breaks in cheerful warm brilliance,
pale sapphire sky pristine.
Grey-white gulls glide vociferously above
in search of firma bound fare.
Reflections of Sol’s arms vault from the sea,
smooth...

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Categories: reminiscence, devotion, introspection, life, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Last Sigh
In my heart always lingers Dad’s last sigh
Never in oblivion could I bury
Such upholds my hope for heavenly high
Leaving me with adieu of victory*.

With his...

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Categories: reminiscence, blessing, christian, dad, death,
Form: Quatern

Book: Shattered Sighs