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Best Retrospect Poems

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Premium Member In Retrospect: Two
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...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retrospect, how i feel,
Form: Free verse



Yet Not Broken By the Blues
....in retrospect
There were mirrors  there
Behind it, where all the Jews would hide
How can someone blame the black despair?
All You were, was a mirror over...

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Categories: retrospect, anti bullying, holocaust, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh, Go Away Yesterday
As past words ring, lost in hollow emotions,
I find each thought in my head but commotion
like the endless roar of the waves in the ocean.
...

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Categories: retrospect, dark, destiny, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Here In This Place Today
V

Indeed, it is so far, far, far back where last I
Stood in sight of all her unnerving ambiguities...       ...

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Categories: retrospect, betrayal, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Mourn For the Little Babies
For the little babies mourn
For the babies that are yet to be born
They are only fetusus many scorn 
And mercilessly from their mothers womb torn

From...

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Categories: retrospect, baby, betrayal, birth, child,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Doubtless Wisdom
Wise awareness predicts its salience.
Strategy that stretches cognitive sentience.
And the ego wants to hold on to power.
A natural sense of oneness with empower.

What you can...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retrospect, analogy, appreciation, wisdom,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Walking My Tiger Home
Walking my Tiger home, if only I had known
in the small print of the sale there was a claws
in a nutshell it was leading to...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retrospect, animal, humor, tiger,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blanket of Stardust Love
     "Blanket of Stardust Love"



beneath a blanket of stardust, soft melodious refrain
enchants golden moonlight while whispered words of love proclaim
affection and...

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Categories: retrospect, love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Seed of Friendship-A Dedication
L-iving in a world of vast 
souls formed from 
another voided world,
E-ntering thru portals 
from their world to earth.
O-ozing spetacular smell 
and wail when the...

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Categories: retrospect, addiction, angel, care, change,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member I Will Be Leaving the Soup For a Short While
How do you define love?
I mean what is it really,

How can I feel so much love for so many 
people here that I barely know 
...because I...

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Categories: retrospect, farewell,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Swimming Upstream
SWIMMING UPSTREAM

It seems I always 
swim upstream 
against the current.
re-creating struggles 
of conflicting contradictions
and unsweetened scripts
at odds with others
in deeds and words
a emotional dissonance 
played...

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Categories: retrospect, conflict, confusion, life, psychological,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Premenstrual Syndrome -
She painted cubes and angles
drowned in hues
of density and celsius pressures,
it was in part due
to her retrospect of comfortable sorrow,

the syndrome was complicated
by the distant...

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Categories: retrospect, friendship,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Shoreline's Memoirs
Lapping against the shoreline’s edge,
Fluid quartz-crystal of waves rush
through my toes . As I align home-made
paper boats wiggling against ebb tide,  
the looped hammock...

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Categories: retrospect, introspection, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Old Jam Jar
Wandering the virtual
green fields of home,
I open the farmyard gate
fall into a haze of retrospect.
I see a “LMS Black Five” Locomotive
bellowing upon a utilized line,
ghostly...

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Categories: retrospect, old,
Form: Free verse
Border Fence
The flush of spring has bought new life to romp in greening feed,
along the border with the forest where domestic flocks do breed.
Managed through the...

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Categories: retrospect, dog, farm, loss,
Form: Rhyme

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