Best Return Poems
Below are the all-time best Return poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of return poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Mother TreeThe Mother Tree
I am the mother tree that spawned the seeds of you.
My children, you've grown and branched away from me.
You've married, left home to...
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Categories:
return, birth, children, family, grandchild,
Form:
Sonnet
Melancholic TreeIn the middle of winter
within misty moors,
lies a melancholic meadow.
Up above grey skies foretell
perturbed crows to seek shelter.
Down below,
an isolated tree - naked and...
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Categories:
return, analogy, assonance, deep, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Sleepless NightSleepless Night
Teardrops, bagged eyes, a way of sin
The mirror reveals a lost eternal soul
A conniving move against tonight's phantom glow
Voices circle around the insomniac moon
Like...
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Categories:
return, anger, death, farewell, memory,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Near Death Experience of a Sweetheart "A Near-Death Experience of A Sweetheart"
Floating through a corridor between two different Worlds
among white fluffy clouds and shimmering stars awhile wind...
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Categories:
return, death, death, god, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Dreams of IndiaDreams of India
Her music haunts me
in such a knowing way
it makes me weep
and causes my heart to ache.
I become homesick for her
scents, her sounds, her...
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Categories:
return, beauty, culture, desire, dream,
Form:
Free verse
The StoneThe tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might
...
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Categories:
return, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form:
Ballad
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...
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Categories:
return, death, evil, family, fate,
Form:
Haibun
BrokenI wonder about her
as I shave suet and place thistle seed down -
once again
she reveals herself to the corner of my eye
a slight movement caught...
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Categories:
return, bird, emotions, fate, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Silent PageSilent Heart
Sad, as it maybe, I had to break my OWN heart,
Too many nights, I sat there all torn apart
A dream girl,
Sitting under...
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Categories:
return, confusion, corruption, dark, deep,
Form:
Free verse
All I Am
Long slender tendril of mist in the morning
snakes slowly across the cool water, wandering,
endlessly,
searching, moving slowly, seemingly without purpose,
without direction, without destination.
It fades like a...
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Categories:
return, longing,
Form:
Free verse
MonsterMONSTER
Shackles nor chains, can't change what it is.....
Never was it, the one hiding under the bed,
It was me, tired of it getting inside my...
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Categories:
return, abuse, dark, evil, sin,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Dry MascaraDRY MASCARA
Nobody sees through the shadow and the color of my eyes
The times I've cried are the only time you notice the trace down my...
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Categories:
return, cry, deep, depression, grief,
Form:
Alliteration
Hallelujah - From the Mouth of Babes - With Silent OneThe Guardian
Melodic lullabies echo
As heart strings strum secret chords
As transcendental images appear
Stargazers are lost for words
Kaleidoscopic Illuminations
Paint the sky in optimistic light
Hope descends in serene...
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Categories:
return, anti bullying, courage, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To PlayYesterday,
I went home for lunch,
I never go home for lunch.
When I got to our apartment
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key.
Francine...
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Categories:
return, betrayal, break up, heartbroken,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
These Eyes Have Often Been Solaced These eyes have often been solaced
by twilight's cotton candy pllows moving silently
towards a sky's velveteen blanket
and angels'silver gowns
By gazing over hills
to where old country...
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Categories:
return, age, love, romantic,
Form:
Free verse