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Past Poems - Poems about Past
Past Poems - Examples of all types of poems about past to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read
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A Life Worth Living
A Life Worth Living If life is to dwell on the past, then you would have eyes on the back of your head. This is why there's a crick in your neck instead. The past...
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©
Martin Braun
Categories:
past,
appreciation, hope, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Person I Used To Be
She lived in shadows, where light felt too bright And joy was something spoken of, But seldom felt or experienced, something That most of the time, meant reaching for another, Another’s joy, though not hers, She hoped might, somehow,...
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©
Regina Mcintosh
Categories:
past,
celebration, conflict, courage, faith,
Form:
Free verse
I Sought My Wilderness Past Coln St Aldwyns
I sought my wilderness, past Coln St Aldwyns, past the bishop's lace, conker trees, and heather, untethered, my embrace, of timeless winds, that whisper to me, all, breath and being, everywhere, at once, past the bishop's lace, conker trees, and heather, untethered, my embrace, of timeless...
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©
Kate Davies
Categories:
past,
beauty, change, extended metaphor,
Form:
Lyric
My Future Self
To understand what is the present We must gaze into the story of our past Though it's ragged pages I lament I can peek through fingers spread, for I know it's gone at last We must gaze into...
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©
Crystol Woods
Categories:
past,
addiction, faith, family,
Form:
Other
Where I'm From 2
Nothing could be truer than the words I have written. I know who I am. I knew it then. Perhaps I have changed, But where I'm from never will. My past is myself - My story half written. I am my...
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©
Kai Bredwell
Categories:
past,
home, life,
Form:
Free verse
Unconscious Bias: I Have Fallen in Love with My Past
In the quiet hush of morning light, He stares at her with tender eyes, A face familiar, yet out of sight, In the fog where all memory lies. Her voice, a melody he once knew, Now stirs something deep inside, A...
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©
Frank Mashina
Categories:
past,
cute, emotions, feelings, heart,
Form:
Free verse
A planet
A planet Blue world, green sky, red land, rainbow life Life here is a dream of the hoped life, in the sky Down on the Earth, loved life, the planet is love I love the Earth, but I want...
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©
Vilmos Zoltan Galyo
Categories:
past,
future, life, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Goodbye yesterday
Goodbye yesterday End of work, arriving at home at midnight Again a day behind me, time goes so fast Tomorrow is my today – farewells tonight Present to past The time says Bye, goodbye ...
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©
Vilmos Zoltan Galyo
Categories:
past,
life, time,
Form:
Free verse
Echo's From The Past
The mirror reflects those days long gone, Where humans of the past reside, We trace the paths we stumbled on, Through tears that now we can not hide. The winds of time, they softly sing, Of choices made, of roads...
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©
James Mclain
Categories:
past,
12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
ECHOES OF THE PAST
In ancient woods where shadows softly dance and play, The whispers of old times are caught at close of day. Among the silent trees where time seems to stand still, The echoes...
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©
Frank Mashina
Categories:
past,
creation, earth, fantasy, imagination,
Form:
Alexandrine
A Past Country
We all felt we were immortal Nothing would ever change As a child of the village with Acres of fields to range. All these years later So much has gone Meadows under concrete As time has moved on. Gardens occupy those Once informal...
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©
Terry Ireland
Categories:
past,
home, nostalgia, remember, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Ice World
Ice World In the year 2024, I left the world, so many centuries were gone My spacecraft just landed in the village of Watford, a memory Hmm, so far the time, I can’t feel that, but my heart...
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©
Vilmos Zoltan Galyo
Categories:
past,
i love you, life,
Form:
Free verse
NEMESIS
Your past always comes after you When the future starts coming to you Some call it conscious Others calls it demons Most calls it karma What go around comes around. Close to the finish line of all goals Nemesis...
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©
Desire Agbeyiwa Agidotan Ikoyo
Categories:
past,
africa, community, deep, education,
Form:
Pastoral
A world of the past
There is a small country town that I once knew Though I had stayed there I was just passing through I had watched the waters as they deftly churned ...
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©
Daniel Larson
Categories:
past,
life,
Form:
Rhyme
Poet friends from the cemetery
Poet friends from the cemetery Often brings my soul way into a cemetery It is an amazing old place, maybe a thousand, a thousand years old garden of the past lives There is an old church, a thousand years...
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©
Vilmos Zoltan Galyo
Categories:
past,
death, life, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
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