Recalled Poems - Poems about Recalled

I knew you were the one with my eyes closed I loved all of you - from your nose to the tips of your toes You challenged me and I took you up on it But before you really gave us a chance - you just quit I know now that all of it was just lies So Halloween of...

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grieving sad loss of summer it is time of greatest joy when old bones no longer ache and eyes are blessed with colour to smell crisp newly mown grass after warm summer shower herbaceous border delights hollyhocks reached perfection midnight, smell the torpid air wisteria in moonlight salamander on old walls nightlight with aura sheds glow drinking strong morning coffee wide eyes take in this beauty never to be...

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A game I used to play 'Search and Destroy' ~ when but an innocent schoolboy...

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Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare's town Where shades of the past are present each day in daub and wattle homes there can be found Medieval moments that are at play. Tragedies staged with death quite violent In his writing of revenge and torment Shakespeare lies buried his quill now silent He wrote of passion and evil portent. On cobbled street where Tudor shoe did tread Walk in...

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I What does it mean if vain thoughts rise? Long-buried people, events, may arise Suddenly, even after forgiving an ex (wife) II Does it mean forgiveness is not? I don't think so; perhaps quick fix was sought Or new partner has connections to ones that fought (u) III Talking is the only way, the searing way To expose little, un-needed lies, so u can say Little...

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you meet someone you haven't seen for decades what do you talk about where do you start right where you left off all those years ago if it's an old high school chum you might recall teachers or school plays or sports teams if it's a college roommate you'll probably relive a few of those drunken...

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Couldn’t leave yet, One of them that I’d met Moaning and screaming, It feels like they’re dreaming. Needed again, Glad to give a refrain But I’m now nearly eighty, Active still though, matey. Couldn’t say no, Knocked up, asked not to go, Help this doc has displayed, Over this whole charade. Me retired so I’ll roam Exhausted, I want home!...

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Memories surface,a requiem of sounds,heaving emotions realign, words recalled speak volume from deep within , and live again on a trail of nows then wash nostalgia’s face with random spontaneity from the unconscious mind.The house full of yesterdays,books that filled wet Wednesdays,cross-stitched hours upon the wall.Eclectic collected moments,sentiments,priceless,unique and irreplaceable,this smell of love percolating into endless tomorrows....

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~ Faces recalled ~ A tear slipped down my cheek into my heart Good friends from whom I've split apart A downward gaze a moment's reflection Faces recalled with teardrop's affection...

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Escaping into verse, the base of the tower rumbled, the ground beneath was shaken with new cracks inside its walls Escaping into verse, all towering deception crumbled, as the self-anointed jumped and fell landing prostrate and so small Escaping into verse, the mime shouted out enabled, his silent thunder...

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lights of candles in fall autumn keen lines season recalled memories...

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In my bed, memory took fancied flight, When I met with dear friends the other night. Some Loved ones and Folks I’d known so well, Stopped by to visit. Numbers more than I could tell! Some of those seen, had long been away, While others, were met only yesterday. But all were welcome; they made me glad, Though now I’ve wakened,...

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Tenderly she picked the pink flower day dreaming of the first flower given wandering over to the bedecked bower she dreamily looked at the garden Memories of happy times came flooding in the places they had visited together Roma where they bathed in Turkish basins Athens, they were victims of a flasher Paris is the city of love and romance here they had dallied...

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His heart ached as he looked at her Her eyes had no sparkle She walked ignorant of the fact That her footsteps rocked his world That she exuded sexuality She walked unaware of the magnetism Of her form The sheer beauty of her hair as it caught the sunlight She had been robbed of so much He knew He knew only too well That she had...

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RED SEA RECALLED Perim squints in sun without relief Through its narrow windows Towards the mirage Of Socotra’s pearled reef Red and shallow sea floor With coral islets shimmering And rainbows of fish Near its dusty rock shores Crossed by the Tropic* Crossed by dhows Crossed by Moses Crossroads geographic and historic Its waters stream warm Through the gate of tears...

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