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Memory Poems | Examples of Memory Poetry

Carry you
I carry you with me Everywhere that I go. In my eyes, In my smile, In the way I walk, How I talk, Even how I act and dress. I am something of you merged, Bits of what you were, Pieces of what you are, Snippets of what ..you could have been, And as I continue, I will become something of you never seen. I carry...

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Categories: memory, death, grief, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
Years Ago
Looking back on my younger days and in that summer haze you were the pearl my girl in my oyster the whole wide world so many memories of you me and how we used to be but of photographs far too few altho' we did have a laugh a two now all growing dim and grey with the fading shades of day etched in my...

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Categories: memory, fun, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Sister Golden Hair - Added Lyrics
(Sister Golden Hair by America - Added Lyrics) Well, it's so long since I saw you, Sister Golden Hair surprise. Though I keep on thinkin' 'bout you, you can't see it in my eyes. Now I want better correspondence, I am not so hard to find. And I promise you I'll make it worth your while. Will I meet you there in...

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Categories: longing, love, memory,
Form: Lyric
Memory
I miss that heat! That warmth! When I did dissolve. When like a liquid once....

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Categories: memory, art,
Form: Free verse
You're On My Mind
Saw you just a week ago Couldn’t bring myself to say hello Still, you’re on my mind I can’t forget the way you looked Hair light brown and eyes of blue Never even spoke with you You still linger on my mind I may not be in love with you But someday I sure hope...

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Categories: memory, crush, cute love, sweet
Form: Lyric



Wordless Peace
The river moves but never dies, It carries all it cannot keep. Beneath its glass, the silence lies, A cradle where the old dreams sleep. I watch it wind through stone and silt, A silver ribbon pulled by time. It bears the weight of love and guilt, And every joy we failed to climb. I see my face in trembling glass, A thousand selves...

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Categories: memory, emotions, introspection, metaphor, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member DAILY GRATITUDE DREAMS AND MEMORIES
I’m not only grateful today but I’ve been forever pleased That my dreams have been the source of so many of my memories ...

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Categories: dream, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member FAMILY FOG AND FIREFLIES
When what’s happening in our country and the world gets me down When I don’t know where the sad news will come from next…or when… I look to my family and nature to help lift me up again. Last night as I sat in a rocking chair on the porch of our cabin in the trees and again this...

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Categories: family, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Memory's Black Hole
That vacuum inside you once in it you’re trapped Insular nothingness too late to look back What’s empty imprisons no reference in space Where freedom and choice become duly — erased (Dreamsleep: June, 2025) ...

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Categories: memory, time,
Form: Rhyme
Cherry on top
Sex on the beach time * Served up in the noonday sun * More than just a drink *...

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Categories: allusion, baptism, beach, memory,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member The Ballad of the Forbidden Flame - In memory of Oscar Wild
He wore no mask of murder’s face, No blade was in his hand, But still they called his love a crime, And could not understand. He kissed a boy with poet’s grace, The courts replied: “He’s banned.” They cast him in a narrow cell, Where joy must learn to die. He’d loved too much, and not too safe: Too deep, too true, too high. And...

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Categories: memory, hurt, i love you,
Form: Chant Royal
Premium Member it was
it was our song first note launching time travel to warm memories...

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Categories: appreciation, memory, song, time,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Your Remembrance
Your Remembrance A time, just a time, lived to you in his heart, passed age, this love Age, nothing remained, an empty marble tablet in a cemetery park Your path walk is late, didn’t you see? Worn, unreadable letters On the stone, all the noble sentences were addressed to you, only But, but someone is waiting for you. In...

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Categories: memory, fate, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Memory
Your Memory An ominous wind blows over me, a long time ago From the past, nice face, blonde hair, a phenomenon Strange temptation, mysterious curse of love Why are you following? Why? A decaying corpse A dead body is nothing to you. The soul isn’t yours You are late, and I have passed away. Lost time Lost time. The time is lost....

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Categories: memory, fate, i love you,
Form: Free verse
My Heart Erupts
Leather bound thoughts, tied on pages, whispering to me of each day's beginnings This sheet peels heart's despair Creeping on bondage of words not spoken that in the light, a yearning arises Spilling yarns knitted but unraveled- Time's remembrances awaken and heave Soaking memories on the earmarks of carbon To learn that passages with bleeding lines Never open to rage...

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Categories: angst, memory, pain,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Specific Types of Memory Poems

Read wonderful memory poetry on the following sub-topics: christmas, dad, daughter, death, funeral, in loving, loss of, mom, quilt, son, and more.

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