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Best Returning Poems

Below are the all-time best Returning poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of returning poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member When I Am Nothing
When I am nothing, a no one,
when nobody remembers my name -
will you give me a purpose to remain?

When I can no longer run,
will you...

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Categories: returning, angst, perspective, romance,
Form: Free verse



The Turning
The year has finally yawned and turned       
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging 
Enforcement of the...

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Categories: returning, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetry Numbs the Pain
One day we will be, forever silent.
Where would we be without poetry?

As a child, I buried my heart,
drained from games death would play -
in adulthood,...

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Categories: returning, childhood, emotions, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member First Love
Returning home again after many years away
I find our secret path along the Fundy Bay
That happy place where long ago we played
Where all our dreams...

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Categories: returning, childhood, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member breath to breath -
they say to mend an injured heart, move on
      and thus I've done so, time-and-time- again
    ...

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Categories: returning, analogy, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Nature's Way Constanza
Nature's Way Constanza

Sol puts to sleep the hills with light
     while gloaming sheds all fading rays
     and...

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Categories: returning, day, nature, night,
Form: Rhyme
A Rose For Rita
Here’s to the travellers,
   the passengers, the tourists
who trek this alien landscape
   in search of experience.

Here’s to the resilient,
  ...

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Categories: returning, death, family, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member D-Day In Malta:::Co-Write
We met in Valletta city on a fine November day
Introductions...hugs and kisses; we got talking straight away.
All agreed to go sight-seeing – architecture , harbour...

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Categories: returning, fun,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Comes a Wind
Thirsting, thirsting. . . shriveled earth
suffocates in summer’s dearth,
yearns for rain clouds’ forthwith bursting:
Shriveled earth. . . thirsting, thirsting.

Browning, browning in their beds,
flowers parched hang...

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Categories: returning, daffodils, nature,
Form: Rhyme
~ Painting Mona Lisa ~
Absolutely enchanting I thought ~
As I drew the curtains wider, to allow in a bit more light....
Returning unto the canvas and dipping my brush
Into a...

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Categories: returning, lovelove, i love you,
Form: I do not know?
The Red Wheelbarrow
The old red wheelbarrow is still standing there
right next to my Grandfather’s fixed rocking chair.
Though neither has moved in a good many years
their presence revives...

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Categories: returning, death, grandparents, happiness, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Clover
Lay me down in clover
There I'll set my spirit free
To bask in memories of my youth
When life was still carefree
Where dreams of old still hover
With...

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Categories: returning, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She Wolf
My nostrils sniff the air seeking,
the various scents tantalising.
Then I smell the bison and throwing
back my head I howl to my pack.

The bison start to...

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Categories: returning, animal, howl,
Form: Personification
Premium Member My Addingham
(The memories are simple, living the feeling significant)

After conquering Beamsley Beacon due Southwest,
Rombald’s moor stood, while for centuries
within the valley the minute dwellings
of grey stone,...

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Categories: returning, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Final Frontier
Death, the final frontier?

A nest is round.

Our nest the Earth is round like all the stars and planets.

All things are orbital, even time and space.

Let...

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Categories: returning, analogy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs