Memory Poems | Examples of Memory Poetry

Caustic memories dissolve on my tongue Lingering tastes of battery acid and nicotine Cause me to choke on putrid saliva. Staring at melting walls, clocks tick in unison. Distorted birdsong hums outside of jagged windows Under the warped sun, an unrepentant landscape blurs. Freshly budding peonies liquefy; Veils thin, evaporating the...

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Caustic memories dissolve on my tongue Lingering tastes of battery acid and nicotine Cause me to choke on putrid saliva. Staring at melting walls, clocks tick in unison. Distorted birdsong hums outside of jagged windows Under the warped sun, an unrepentant landscape blurs. Freshly budding peonies liquefy; Veils thin, evaporating the...

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Memories are fickle things They seem to love to torture When you desperately just want to forget Seems memory's fruitage is an orchard They can seemingly come from anywhere But they don't need to be regretted They should still be remembered fondly Not bemoaned, erased, or fretted Because if memories were cheating No one could be loyal Just because something comes to mind Doesn't mean your...

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You can hear the echo of days gone by, memories linger their silent refrain, as timeless love long ago still beckons; come follow me down to Featherbed Lane. Back to the place where our love first began; where eyes first locked within our silent gaze, but we were so young and innocent then, not knowing...

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traipsing down moonlight's path bamboo sway on errant winds jasmine perfumes the air ~ scent of wistful memories ...

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running on empty longing unfulfilled hearing only echoes deja vu enthralls written on tenement halls subway walls ...

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I know I made mistakes And I know I should have been there more I know you needed more And I know I should have tried harder I know you I should have told And I know not saying cost us I know that's all on me And I know I don't deserve you But if I ever get a second chance I...

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Spirit remains young though body ages, heart harbouring desire for a rebirth, bringing back next time wisdom of sages, that blissful and joyful be time on earth, where presence is always bubbling in mirth. Refrains replay with memory erased, with each immersion leaving soul amazed....

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War shapes the warriors it touches, leaving behind vestiges that linger in their lives long after the battlefield fades from view. In Recon Marines: Searching for the Real Enemy, we are thrust into the unrelenting grip of Vietnam's jungle, a landscape both indifferent and eternal. Yet the war waged in the depths of memory proves...

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What is left, what remains beyond pain at my leaving as memories fade at the end of your grieving when the tide in which you wade is not so cold and not so deep what then my love which memories will you keep, the echo of my voice wrapped in memory, pressed in a book will you take a look but not too hard, don’t stay too long, remember me...

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What stings like wasps in hives, Of trying minds' regret, Invasive blips, flash frozen pictures, Recalls, counterfeit, Serrated icy sickled thoughts, In glaciated snow, Dread the warmth, the trickled stream, Of thawing reapers' sown, Sipping from the melt embibes, The swarming, claustrophobic choke, Alone the white hot heat of heart, Scatters them with smoke....

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Grief never leaves you; memories keep loved ones close to your heart . Quote by poet. John and his young wife Maria had been apart for a year now, but every week he'd drive across town just to speak with her. On the passenger seat was a white rose, Maria’s favourite flower.  Their garden was adorned with them; they resembled...

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morning was sadder than april he looked at his clock and calendar at the same time then glanced back at april before it ended and ahead to may before it had begun. there were no flowers spraying color or fragrance… no breeze to push the clouds along and no promise of hope beyond the...

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do you remember do you remember... there were empty stairways of two flights or more the sweet aroma from the candy store endless chatter floating free from laughing people…like you and me stolen kisses in the afternoon on a borrowed blanket from another room we lost all track of minutes past hoping minutes and kisses would forever last do you remember... there were raindrops falling all around and we...

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Memories I think A world that keep coming back I know I can't change....

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