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Look Backward Poems - Poems about Look Backward

The Bright Tread
...Summer brings strong sunshine for the strong, but what happens when its tread falls disinterestedly upon the weak? Behold they have become silent, the sky bleaches bones and does not look backwa......

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Categories: look backward, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Search of Yesterday
..."recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind, like breezes blown ..." Quote by _Samuel Taylor Coleridge We often say that time waits on none of us. Getting on board life's bus is simp......

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Categories: look backward, memory, time,
Form: Tail-rhyme



River Stones
...These are the stones that ground dull nails and sharpened talons, they have slid under mountains of ice and fire, are polished by the grind of a glacial momentum. The stones endure now as layer......

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Categories: look backward, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Commutative Property
...I was taught the commutative property of addition back when I still counted on my fingers and my thumbs…which stated: no matter how we group our addends…it doesn’t change the sum. When I grew up I......

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Categories: look backward, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Evil Economies
...More humans are needed, to have a good economy so the powerful have seeded, that of a root, to be greeded The greed of money, directs everyone forward to have your taste of honey, so you don’t, ......

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Categories: look backward, earth, money, nature, political,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Great Exchange
...I see a massive 'coming in' but little to no 'going out'. 'Coming into' a place of opportunity and enlarged dreams; There will be little or no desire to depart this earthly paradise, and 'no going......

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Categories: look backward, america, freedom, history, political,
Form: Political Verse
River Stones
...These are the stones that ground nails and sharpened talons, they have slid under mountains of ice and fire, have been polished by the glacial dead. The stones endure now in layers of motion an......

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Categories: look backward, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Reminiscence
...Once upon a time undefined by algorithm In your arms you had me As we slow dance to mild blues Our hand and legs in a lover's tango Like a puppet,you spun me to the rhythm The walls echo my lau......

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Categories: look backward, dance, devotion, first love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crushing
...Hey boy, I’m crushing on you; Why is that so hard to admit to? You once said you were under my skin, I guess it’s time to tell you I’ve fallen; I hear your voice when I’m all alone 2 am wan......

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Categories: look backward, crush, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Covered Bridge
...The covered bridge The lover’s refuge When in a huge crisis The knife cuts into slices The birds inside the ribs When in a deluge All the resource to be used has been exhausted Have yo......

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Categories: look backward, beauty, bereavement, destiny, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Look Inward
...A Look Inward For all I ever once was all I ever want to be, fleeting mists singing and rising fogs in morn sunset views triumphant; resting deep inside of me shadows of a spirit cold and ......

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Categories: look backward, celebration, family, hope, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Contemporary Ode To a Mother Crying Out To Her Children
...In the presence of all to see, her world turns and runs red with the blood of her children: Blood flowing like a wandering stream. The bloated bellies of surviving youth mock aborted pregnancie......

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Categories: look backward, africa, allegory, analogy, cry,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Spring Foward
...Silence, the power of noise that brings stillness to the ear Power, the audacity of every man’s desire to manipulate Resilience, what a way to bounce-back, the mass is always intact Imminent, it’s......

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Categories: look backward, inspiration,
Form: List
The Light
...The light comes on You can see the road But you know not how long You will carry the load Don’t look backward or forward Or stray side to side Take one step Take one stride And look fo......

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Categories: look backward, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Shadows In the Dark
...Shadows in the dark are now what I see Murky pictures of the loved ones no more with me I stare at them with a trembling heavy heart For we are now millions of light years apart Shadows l......

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Categories: look backward, angel, dark, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse

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