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Has Beens Poems - Poems about Has Beens

Has Beens Poems - Examples of all types of poems about has beens to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for has beens.
Things that go through my brain on a Thursday morning
... In the depths of my heart, a shadow dwells, Regret's icy grip, a tale it tells. Missed opportunities, choices made, Unraveled dreams, a path that swayed. Like a phantom, it haunts my waking ......Read the rest...
Categories: has beens, destiny, endurance, fate, identity,
Form: Carpe Diem



Premium Member Ode On The Hourglass
...The restoration properties collected in each and every grain of sand, stimulates the aging functions that affect durations longing of infinity that it now possesses a plunging ......Read the rest...
Categories: has beens, appreciation, creation, destiny, education,
Form: Ode
Celafid Namoyll
...Humours turn acrid near The silent seer. Escaping absentees scamper Further down the hole that holds their likeness Extinguish | fatal obscurant | visions. | fata obscura | ......Read the rest...
Categories: has beens, silence, visionary, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Coulda-Shoulda
...She sits on a stool in the middle of a yesterday room eyes squeezed shut as her phantoms circle ‘round circle ‘round 'n 'round their hollowed voices chant an endless why? ......Read the rest...
Categories: has beens, bereavement, divorce, remember, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forgotten Love
...I choose to forget what pains to remember there are no ifs or reflections of might of beens over is finished and slowly the memory fades. Emptiness besiege me loneliness fulfilled me solitude ac......Read the rest...
Categories: has beens, death, life, love,
Form: Free verse



Just Fingertips Apart
...Each step I take along the way is more than I can endure and every curve in the lonesome road becomes a detour back to you because movin' on is somethin' I just can't do, not if movin'......Read the rest...
Categories: has beens, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
I Reached 80
...Since I reached 80 years of life time has moved too fast but in slow motion I oftentimes feel embarrassed at what I became and what I could have been but old men dream more of the what could h......Read the rest...
Categories: has beens, age, children, father son,
Form: Free verse
My Foolish Heart
..."Good Morning" The words you used to tell me, When yesterday seemed shaking, But somehow made my heart flee. It was somehow music Lyrics seeping in my mind, That brought me to a magic Of a l......Read the rest...
Categories: has beens, cry, feelings, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stuck On Yesterday
...No big surprise - I ain’t gonna lie I'm still fightin' back your goodbye Up late again - drink in my hand Convincin' myself we're not just friends Makin’ the best of the situation Tippy toe'......Read the rest...
Categories: has beens, lonely,
Form: Lyric
In the Darkest Souls
...i see reflections of myself all the could have beens pile around me grudging my steps better never an option how to give love you have never felt so i feign my humanity with a crooked smile a......Read the rest...
Categories: has beens, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zully's Apology
...I’m glad to hear that your meditation practice gives you the means to define your sense of purpose in life. That is an enviable state of affairs. My own charter would be less ambiguous and my agenda ......Read the rest...
Categories: has beens, allegory,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Happy Anniversary
...I’d be lying If I said that I was happy for this day It’s my once a year reminder Of when my Angel slipped away With your hand, went my heart As I watched the smile he put upon your face N......Read the rest...
Categories: has beens, anniversary, deep, devotion, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member When I Think About the Could-Have-Beens
...I try to think about the could-have-beens, but few things come to me. It’s like I barely had a hand in my own destiny. I dreamed a lot while in my youth of love forever sweet, yet little ......Read the rest...
Categories: has beens, life,
Form: Verse
In a Moment
...Closed open Open.closed Eyes at rest Soft Wind blows Warm sun glare beens It's bright it seems I must open. My eyes I won't relive these memories There is no abracadabra time To bring ......Read the rest...
Categories: has beens, appreciation, beauty, celebration, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Meditation On 'Giving In God's Will'
...I could be way off base, but I think that ‘Control’ and ‘Graced Giving’ are opposites, poles that can’t meet in a space with dimensions, where sanity floats and integrity lives (for one can’t buy ......Read the rest...
Categories: has beens, faith, love,
Form: Rhyme

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