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Looking Back Poems - Poems about Looking Back
Looking Back Poems - Examples of all types of poems about looking back to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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...You caught me running, constantly looking back, tears merging within the rain. If I took a leap, would I fly? Left behind, the mole above your lip, laughter in your eyes, jaded progression. I......
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Lee Norton
Categories:
looking back,
absence, care, cry, dark,
Form:
Free verse
The Seasons of Our Love
...On summer nights Nostalgia's muse revives Scent of jasmine Fig tree fragrance fuses Memories meander Minty ice cream flavours Add sweetness to hungry kisses Star gazing to cricket symphony......
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Eileen Manassian
Categories:
looking back,
longing, lost love, nostalgia,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Having God's Good Hand Upon Me - Titus 3: 4,5
... Looking back having God's good hand throughout my life, I can testify of His goodness and mercy for He's heard my constant cry A few highlights along the way being adopted soon after birth ......
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Gordon Mcconnell
Categories:
looking back,
god, me, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
TWO OLD OPTIMISTS
... Deborah and I feel blessed to be optimists… to be able to find a bright spot in every day. Blessed because we have never had to work on this… we were both lucky to be born this way. For insta......
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Jim Yerman
Categories:
looking back,
inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Beneath the burdens of countless nights
...Beneath the burdens of countless nights, In the cursed silence of the soul's waiting room, I sat, the last one, loneliness carved by the chisel of forgetfulness into the stone of my heart, Blockin......
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Dan Enache
Categories:
looking back,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Reality
...Be more of things that make you you Don't be like too good to be true Work more on things that bear your name For all humans are not the same It's not a sin to be fanatic But you can make......
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R. B. Cawis
Categories:
looking back,
wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Mirror of my Mind
..."As you look deeper in the heart the mirror gets clearer and cleaner...Rumi" The mirror of my mind, reflects the years of my heart leaving my face a wilderness of weathered wrinkles cau......
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©
Frederic Parker
Categories:
looking back,
introspection,
Form:
Free verse
April Twenty Third
...April Twenty Third By Franklin Price 04/23/2024 Today is April twenty three It is the best day of my life Happy Birthday to you Barbara You are my dear departed wife You are still here w......
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Franklin Price
Categories:
looking back,
birthday, christian, love, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
That was then, this is now
...Cleaved from God’s light, we wished to be as He but one day we ate the forbidden fruit, whose toxins caused dread and in heart envy, darkening our luminous soul with soot. Though tempestuous and ......
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Unseeking Seeker
Categories:
looking back,
god, heaven, love, spiritual,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
New Pathways
...Tollgates on redemption road calling out my name Turnstiles of a fated past ... exiting the blame Looking back all fares are paid new pathways to begin Eyes now closing, heart at rest — ......
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©
Kurt Philip Behm
Categories:
looking back,
celebration, moving on,
Form:
Rhyme
Your indifference, the breath that sparked the fire beneath bridges
...Your indifference, the breath that sparked the fire beneath bridges, Where my once sure steps now breach bonds and ridges. Your scars are but an alluring landscape, Their call, an echo urging me t......
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©
Dan Enache
Categories:
looking back,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Fun House
...looking both ways down an infinite hall, looking back at myself endlessly, I turned right and followed for ages, until I realized I was always going left, How do I turn to where I meant, ......
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Nicholas Enloe
Categories:
looking back,
change,
Form:
Free verse
Dead End Street
...Down at the end of dead end street, Cold, down and feeling beat, Trying to make sense of it all, Sun rises burning red, Visions spinning in my head, Now every dead end street leads to me. Blo......
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©
Mark West
Categories:
looking back,
car, deep, imagination, lonely,
Form:
Rhyme
THE CAR BOMB THAT ENDED MY LIFE FBI ARSON AND CAR BOMB DIVISION
...FIRE! UPDATED 1998 IN 2021 BY COVERUPS PAYOFFS GARGANO FAKED HIS OWN DEATH MEMORIAL DAY 1999 THE CAR BOMB THAT ENDED MY LIFE AT LEAST AS I'VE KNOWN IT ON THIS DAY THE SKY WAS SO BLUE RIDING ALONG C......
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Yolanda Nicholsen
Categories:
looking back,
america, feelings, health, identity,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION CRISIS TEAM OF CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCES
...CRISIS TEAM : HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP AGENT BROWN: I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT IN TOTAL FEAR FOR MY SAFETY AFTER WEARING WIRES PREGNANT BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FEARING FOR MINE AND MY CHILDREN LIVES ......
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Yolanda Nicholsen
Categories:
looking back,
america, analogy, anxiety, forgiveness,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
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