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Premium Member MY TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
BLINDING FLASHES FROM MY EYE SOCKET BEING CRUSHED MY NASAL ARCH NOSE FRACTURE RHINOPLASTY SURGERY HELPS WITH MY AIRWAYS THE SEVERE TRAUMA ON IMPACT SEVERE CAR ACCIDENT TWO MEN ON A LADDER ADJUSTING THE STREET...

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Categories: flashbacks, allah,
Form: Naat



Inxs of Poison From Iron Maiden Scorpion Mamma and Ac Dc Charged Aries Papa
Inxs of poison from iron maiden scorpion mamma and ac/dc charged aries papa

Although gainfully unemployed 
(fate now finds me receiving 
social security disability – 
for approximately 
the last baker's dozen years -
the yeast divine intercession...

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Categories: flashbacks, 12th grade, abuse, anger, anxiety, atheist, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Marat and Charlotte 3
Act 3. A dark, empty stage.

Marat
(standing up)

My eyes went blank. That's how it goes when
you have been doubly knocked flat on your back
in half an hour. He went, he went,
he went, he went, he went,...

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Categories: flashbacks, death, love,
Form: Blank verse
Never Alone
A young girl who’s lost & wandering in the darkness cries out

“If there’s a God out there please save me!”

The darkness replied with silence

But she kept listening so intently to the nothingness around her,

Clenching and...

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Categories: flashbacks, anxiety, betrayal, bullying, depression,
Form: Free verse
Attitude with latitude
Attitude with latitude

originally written January 19th, 2019
and tension defines the dynamic

Valiant prince sip pulled effort
rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed
courtesy eldest daughter
uncontested vainglorious woke
mine genuine apology,
viz sincerely yours truly
psyche asper paternal overture
toward aforementioned offspring
smitten with opprobrium
figuratively smacked upside...

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Categories: flashbacks, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal, family, father daughter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I'Ve Got To Go
I’m on my way, I’ve got to go
(the reasons why you’ll never know),
whisked away in winter’s winds, your sleeping sighs remind me.
And I’ll ramble where I please,
sometimes slipping to my knees,
phantom memories a’ chasing close...

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Categories: flashbacks, cute, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member PART OF ME: A FALLEN CHILD
Part of my soul severed by their ruthless oppression, demoralization and exploitation of a frightened and abandoned child.

Part of me drowning in detrimental sorrow as a 10 yr. old coerced by the evilness on the...

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Categories: flashbacks, abuse, anti bullying, child abuse, childhood, for
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 1856
During a bad storm one night I turned on my television
Grey and black flickering lines appeared, obscuring my vision
I went outside and saw the aerial had bent over but it would have to wait
Tomorrow I'd...

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Categories: flashbacks, dark, dream, surreal,
Form: Narrative
An Adverse World 7 Plus 7
Living disobediently and having damaging depression was my past
I was an alcoholic drug addict that wanted satisfaction to last
I’ve been constantly abused mentally, physically, emotionally and in all aspects of life as a whole
Will I...

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Categories: flashbacks, angst, nature, passion,
Form: Free verse
Solivigant
Solivagant
                                  ...

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Categories: flashbacks, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, child abuse, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shadow
It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl out jogging, with her dog down by the lake
And felt...

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Categories: flashbacks, dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Onions
The old church lay in ruins, left to languish in time.
He was sitting on the grave talking to Sergeant R Johnston.
Well, I suppose you want an update on the war.
Let me see now, where do...

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© Paul Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flashbacks, death, humor, soldier,
Form: Free verse
Memories of a Green Beret
Memories of a Green Beret

“Where have all the soldiers gone, Long time passing,
Where have all the soldiers gone, Long long time ago,
Where have all the soldiers gone,
Gone to graveyards, every one.
When will they ever learn?
When...

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Categories: flashbacks, history, nostalgia, veterans day, violence,
Form: I do not know?
Make It Out Alive
There isn't a place that I hide
I'm trapped inside a maze, let me write
incase I don't make it out alive
Because I feel the storm coming
I'm so forthcoming about my shortcomings
Exercise my feelings, so even if...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flashbacks, death, deep, depression, discrimination, leaving, love,
Form: Free verse
Anxiety
This is what it feels like to have your heart racing 
and not knowing when or if it will ever slow down.
Your fatigued body can not keep up with its rapid thumping against your chest,
you’re...

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Categories: flashbacks, anxiety, slam,
Form: Free verse
Causualties of War
None of us live forever were the words I'd often hear.
Words softly spoken from a man I held so dear.

He taught me to be brave and stand for what is right.
He said don't ever give...

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Categories: flashbacks, angel, death, health, military,
Form: Rhyme
The Fire, the Flood
You’re the headless horseman running on half a heart 
You shouldn’t know where to go but you just do 
And you’d lose your head if it wasn’t attached to you 
Lost puzzle pieces, collecting dust,...

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Categories: flashbacks, anger, betrayal, hate, how i feel, identity,
Form: Free verse
Forest of Lost Memories
My thoughts drift...back 
...to days-long ago...
like faded photographs...
the sun is
bright... 
the day is brilliant and crisp...

I stand among the forest of lost moments
like, dear, that run and play...forgotten...memories
...the hunting grounds of my
youth...

Images of love vanished
...victories...

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Categories: flashbacks, adventure, allegory, america, analogy, angst, art, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Shadow of Sunlight
When wounds keep seeping,  
dawn continues to unfold~  
 blurred projections 
    engrossed in dishonesty.  
And I wonder if the tulip moon  
  could see the ash...

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Categories: flashbacks, angst, anxiety, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Coco Gauff
So yall, Coco Guaff just won the French Open 2025. 
Big Ups and CONGRATS to Coco! Oh yeah, she did her Big Won!
In case yall didn’t know, Coco played Aryna Sabalenka.
After Coco won the match,...

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Categories: flashbacks, conflict, dedication, endurance, sports, usa, wind, world,
Form: Narrative
Open Letter
I've held some stuff inside for too long but this is my open letter 
I could be okay by myself, but I'd rather us be broken together
I want to mend the pieces of your heart...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flashbacks, deep, depression, emotions, inspirational, recovery from, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Through Their Eyes
Thoughts how they fade into nothingness of regret. I am lost once again. The pain of yesterday has not forgiven my offences and I am not worthy of a life anymore. “Please pardon me Lord...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flashbacks, abuse, childhood, murder, sister, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aha Life a Reverberating Harp
life is a chessboard,
                              with kings,...

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Categories: flashbacks, life, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Close Encounter



 I'd finished work at ten PM and got in my car
It was dark as I drove home and, in the sky, noticed a star
Could be a planet I thought, as I drove along the...

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Categories: flashbacks, car, fantasy, surreal,
Form: Narrative
It Would Be Good To Be Someone Else
The silence was shattered by the sound of thunder,
Your eyes were so red; I had to look the other way.
They bled tears of pain and lightning shook my soul,
Something happened on the way to scare...

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© Rob Meader  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flashbacks, sadworld, sound, dark, dark, sound,
Form: I do not know?

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