Best Retrospect Poems

In Retrospect 

I'm glad I chose friendship in
the midst of disagreements.

In Retrospect 

I’m glad I realized I wasn't perfect 
and took ownership of my flaws.

In Retrospect 

I’m glad I took the time to find me
although I still discovering myself.

In Retrospect 

I’m glad I realized how...

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There’s a path of flowers I glide across
Such a beautiful color made of gloss
Orange pieces of delight made to pass
Within this meadow that is long to last

The blades of grass are surely tall with pride
Turning colors from green to brown inside
There’s a lone tree in...

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The years increased and agéd now—between
first birth and the burnt embers of my dotage—
I yearned and pined for a God-like machine
with which to vitalize my wrinkling image;
my youth extinguished long before Life’s hour
ran its course, I succumbed to melancholy
as I loved not nor lived with...

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My mother told me, as a child, how diverse a woman had to be.
She stated from this diversity solidarity could be found.
Woman, as a leader, confronts the world in a liberated form.
She is to say what is necessary and carry on.
If there seems to be...

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My childhood was difficult but happy
For there was enough grass 
To cover the rocks
And the butterflies always came out
After the rain....

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If I am who I say I am,
And what I claim to be,
It won't be hard to figure out,
My actions tell the story.

I cannot sit 'midst muck and mire,
And claim it isn't so.
I can't ignore the things I'm taught,
And say I'm trying to grow.

I cannot...

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Formed by mist that grasses adore
Reveries young coat the sky
Mixing life with energized core
Kodak of faces streaking by
-
I collect vignettes from a rushed earth
Filling cups of grails many by one
With these journeys since my birth
In rainstorms and summers rerun
-
To recall how wife and I debate
Only...

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I find myself in a dark silent vacuum,
A place where nothing could be
Seen, heard or felt.
My soul grieves in agony,
My sole feels no lifewithin,
My heart feels a pain-stained hollow,
I wondered off by myself,
            ...

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Now, sitting here... 
Entranced in the endless depths of one's own thoughts and fears,
each dipped through vats 
of thick sap like tears...
Ahhhh...
Perhaps at a later time we can continue with the endless intricacies of ones own mind... But at this time, that is, just days...

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Days… Gone with the days,
       Once graphite now diamond...
Between our fingers time plays,...

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You can't change your past but you can learn from it
Its not about dwelling there, but more so what you earn from it
 
Sometimes I wish I hadn’t let others influence my prior choices
But other times I'm thankful for those few truthful voices

Guiding me in...

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You're all I wanted, but nothing I need
These present thoughts, should my own advice I heed?
Why do I try so hard for something that causes so much pain
Is it easier to suffer or to simply refrain?

I've sat too long at this stand-still
Emotions piled up like...

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Yes, I have often seen, the early rising sun
when I wake to witness, another day begun.
But when I see tomorrow’s, it will surely be the best!

Yes, I have seen the Seasons, in ritual  parade,
adorned in all their beauty, a Master’s hand displayed.
Spring brings us...

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Christmas was a time of laughter and 
cheer

Often times I didn't get the toys I wanted
each year

Was I a bad child? Why did Santa forget 
about me?

As the years went by, in retrospect I started
to see,

I got everything that really mattered each
Christmas Day!

I was loved,...

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a small cloud passed white

against a dark blue sky

curved, for eyes like mine,

remembering eyes like yours.

a small cloud igniting 

another heart

to burn along its way

that was my yesterday.
...

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