Hindsight Poems - Poems about Hindsight

Hindsight is twenty-twenty, We imperturbably say. But what is insightful vision, When life is looking the opposite way? Would words of wisdom Record a different story If life could be lived in reverse? Returning to familiar territory, Undoing the “What’s done is done” ancient curse? Receiving before it is given, Understanding pain, From where and why it came, With the warmth of forgiveness Preceding the cold, hard rain. There...

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this journey i have traveled and had my foot heavy on the gas i never stopped i seldom paused i rarely slowed down for the many roses there to smell AP: Honorable Mention 2025 Posted on March 30, 2025...

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you've been gone almost five years still i remember so well the harmony we were downright inseparable mostly i remember the peace we felt so I couldn't help but take a moment to wonder what exactly made it so the answer came very clear to me you were a pure person with a kind heart and day to day I was so very...

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Enclosed around parental safeguard my personhood was exposed to freedom bound by subjection to authorities which my mind never questioned since I acknowledged such as the ideal… Then my sense of freedom was gripped with skepticism when attacked by liberation-rationality issues human intellect could not fathom in my freshman year as a struggling college activist merging with peers in...

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At times in my life, I thought I was dead Like a lone soul lost in dark of the night Blinded sight could not see the paths ahead Wandering like a ghost, afraid of the light Like a sailboat without destination I sailed and sailed too far from the shore Then caught in pit of...

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Once I shared a long hidden secret with the one, I thought was my friend, through and through. But little did I think it would hit back on me Like a boomerang, breaking my heart. She betrayed my trust with my reputation at stake. Within days, it became a juicy gossip, A fodder for many to ruminate and cud. What...

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When I was in high school, I had a fall, It was from a cycle, but changed my all; I had ligament tear in my right foot, Could not go to school, got typhoid to boot; Weak in my body and stressed in my mind, When I did go back, I fell way behind; I lost my life's purpose, Despair set in,...

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Reminiscing through the album of perpetuity, I came across a thorn that kissed my skin, and murmured into my soul, a powerful stance, stitching soft whispers in exquisite cadence. The thorn tried to remind me, of how adoration trickled down my hearth of pain. And my eyesight gradually changed, to bring serenity to all I once cherished. I remember a rose used...

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I was coming up on 60, when I found a lump in my left breast. One day of anxiety turned into two weeks of tribulation as I returned again and again to the hospital for tests. At last, I got my verdict: level 2 estrogen-driven cancer. At this time, I had an unreliable health insurance company. I felt as if...

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You must admit, each of us has looked back in time reminisced about the past and all its happenings that now unwind, the ifs, ands, buts of how we got here to today's cascadings upon this stage of life's long paradings, intent and close with smile or tears of the circumstances bound in the...

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Hindsight 20 20 I fell in love with Robert Frost, With his poem,”The Road Not Taken”. Such a beautiful expression of human life. For there are many such intersections in our lives… choices that take us to a new world, a new destination and fate. Many times it is tragedy that precipitates these life changing choices. While my...

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The Tragedy It happened years ago when I was driving from Montreal, it had started snowing pretty gentle snowflakes; but once I got on the highway the snow was coming down, it was heavy and visiblility was impossible now. There were a...

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“I’ve seen love from both sides now” 1. Self-absorbed youth, I failed to recognize, Maternity’s most relentless enterprise. I didn’t see sacrifices she made, Tireless efforts decade after decade. Her care for all of us in every way, On a daily basis in full display, Her patient, selfless love a constant state - Should have been easy to...

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With the melodic cadence of my fervent heart, pulsating with the charming tinsels of mesmeric night, gleamed my love for you with the enticing tinge, suffused with the sequins of the argentine moon. I felt in a trance the sweet touch so tempting of your captivating charisma intangible, but you drifted away...

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