Happiness Nostalgia Poems

Where did she go, that girl in the photograph?
Suspended in time, preserved like a fly
petrified in amber, and petrified by life.

Where is she now, that...

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Not only a dusty attic, crammed with forgotten things,
But a bittersweet symphony, the heart in memory sings.

The air hangs heavy, thick with "what ifs" and...

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the old days were really good
going through your neighborhood
leaving doors unlocked for neighbors
to walk through if they need favors 
or to visit for some fun
when...

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Don't forget
My Love...
My bud ... ,
My tenderness.
You have the key to my heart,
And you will always be in my soul
I love you
My princess
Now and forever.

My...

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 We are all there in memoirs that live on
An unending story that's long bygone 
We’re the result of someone's love story 
The produce of...

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What is? 
Fortitude. 
Let that sink in for a while. 
Missed the mark. Damn names, 
who's falling behind, body or mind? 
Image, like you know...

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She met him when her heart was young,
Fell hard and fast, but it was a feeling unsung.

Time would take her down so many roads,
Where life...

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The idea of Christmas snow in Michigan is replaced with fog
Hot breath exhaled to cold lollipop trees
My blurry life-sized polar bear salutes through the front...

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A lonely dock
Where memories are carved letter plus letter
Where hope lies in absence of written end
Where wind nips softly, devoid of ability to cut
Where a...

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We all find ways
to cherish a moment,
the ones we wish
would last forever.

Some of us
snap photos.
A camera in our faces
every chance we can.
'For the memories' 
some...

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sentimental or wistful yearning
for happiness felt in 
former time, place, or situation.
Nostalgia.
...

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I miss the days of mine
I miss the old me which used to shine
Like a star with unrelenting light
But now I love the darkness of...

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A moment is a frame of time-
that captures tears or joys, sublime.
Although it passes very fast-
it adds to memories that last.

And like a film, our...

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Leaves glitter quietly, serene and slumbering,
Beneath the frost’s quick breath.
Amber, gold and mahogany – crisp as the voice of winter
Shadowed by trembling winds of December,
Hopeful...

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Rick is willilng to sacrifice his happiness
As Ilsa was willing to sacrifice her husband's love
Both unwilling pawns created by a war
neither of them started or...

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