Flashbacks
f ervid
l ayered ~
a rrive unbidden ~
s napshots of joy
h earten same ~
b ully reviews
a dmonish ...
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Categories:
flashbacks, deep, emotions, image, memory,
Form: Verse
Flashbacks
Under the jacaranda tree,
hoping for some shade,
I dream old dreams
evoking immemorial flashbacks.
Placed 3
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Categories:
flashbacks, dream,
Form: Verse
Flashbacks
Flashbacks are the safe havens
for those who want to escape
from their mundane routines.
2nd Place
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Categories:
flashbacks, 4th grade,
Form: Verse
Flashbacks
God’s heart ~
globe of love and light,
flashbacks we remember fondly.
Why did we leave?
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Categories:
flashbacks, god, memory,
Form: Verse
Flashbacks
enduring
flashbacks
of traumatic experience
of almost drowning;
he swears
he's never going
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Categories:
flashbacks, anxiety, fear, memory, remember,
Form: Verse
Flashbacks
Flashbacks I would
rather not see
I yearn
for your love returned . . .
as my reality
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Categories:
flashbacks, lost love,
Form: Verse
Flashbacks
Flashbacks come when I’m alone,
a smell, a sound
and suddenly, I’m back there again.
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Categories:
flashbacks, dark, life, memory,
Form: Verse
Flashbacks
memories come creeping
flashbacks to grief
ignoring the happy moments I treasure
in my soul
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Categories:
flashbacks, memory,
Form: Verse
Flashbacks
same eyes with a new name
in a new skin
my nightmare flashbacks movie frame
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Categories:
flashbacks, dream, evil,
Form: Verse
Flashbacks
Open graves, petrichor pelts a casket nailed shut—awoken by trembling flashbacks, clawing for air.
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Categories:
flashbacks, anxiety, dark, deep, gothic,
Form: Verse
Flashbacks
flashbacks are corkscrews!
each loop
entwines
what was,
with what
could be,
when cork
pops!
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Categories:
flashbacks, memory,
Form: Verse
Flashbacks
lights flare inside my mind
of pain, agony ~ doubt flashbacks of love
blindsiding my heart
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Categories:
flashbacks, memory,
Form: Verse
FLASHBACKS
FLASHBACKS
The flashbacks seem to come thick and fast
Ever since I opened that photo album
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Categories:
flashbacks, memory,
Form: Verse
The Empty Chair
I leave the sun-dappled autumn sidewalk, entering the office
The empty chair there lingers.
dark tendrils coiling in my mind—
my blind rage pleading for quiet healing.
flashbacks clash like striking thunder
opening buried treasures of truth.
and in that final brand searing cry
My heart reborn, mindlessly adrift in spectral mist.
I gladly depart as sleet glazes, streets so slick…..
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Categories:
flashbacks, cry, emotions, grief, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue
the rearview
Summer’s in the rearview mirror,
re-experience it at your peril.
it’ll only distract you now, and maybe depress you.
Summer shifts your orbit, from classrooms and remote zooms,
to lollygagging by beaches and snuggling in cozy hotel rooms.
As intense and vital as last summer was - as they all are -
it’s already blurring in memory.
Soon only the memory of
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Categories:
flashbacks, humor, memory, missing, school,
Form: Free verse
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