reliving a childhood memory
monstrous giants surround me on this gentle journey
the water is winking at me as if she knows my secrets.
Simultaneously, I feel invincible and vulnerable
Memories I thought were deceased arrive unbidden
I feel a kindship to my younger brother, whom I have not seen for years.
See my mother laughing, comfortable and cozy in Daddy’s arms
A memory I
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Categories:
reliving, memory,
Form: Free verse
Following Arrows Backwards
Back I go retracing steps.
Against the tide I must tread,
Following the arrows down in reverse.
Each arrow head points back to moments gone,
To a time before the dawn of days past.
The footprints I must retread
Lead backwards on the path trod.
Heel to toe carefully placed in reverse,
To echo the way I felt at each step.
To unravel the
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Categories:
reliving, memory, relationship,
Form: Verse
Reliving the Moment
His eyes were wild with angry
He roughly shoved her out of the vehicle
I froze, terrified
Her life was in danger
Or was it my life in danger
Our lives where in danger
She was begging for mercy
Once the love of her life,
Now a merciless monster.
Once the beloved father to her child,
Now a furious
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Categories:
reliving, abuse, anger, anxiety, courage,
Form: Free verse
Reliving My Youth
I oft find myself reliving my youth
uncovering uncomfortable truths
about all of my foibles and most of my sins
O, Lord! What condition my poor soul is in...
Whether daydreams or nightmares
each one gives me a scare
I'd played
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Categories:
reliving, adventure, dream, fear, truth,
Form: Couplet
Reliving a Living Nightmare
Slowly falling backwards in fast forward, slipping quickly in rewind
Everything has been said and done , envy and jealousy orchestrates the emptiness of your mind
A futile release riddled with confusing censored free speech gone blind with cold silence
Seemingly progression can't be made without the hunger for some violence
All elements of daily routines become stagnant and
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Categories:
reliving, best friend, betrayal, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Reliving My Stay
Memories of my younger days
Add up to a much simpler way
Perhaps not exact
Opposite to fact
Twas a lot like reliving my stay
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Categories:
reliving, life,
Form: Limerick
Reliving Yesterday
I didn't know
who I was
until it was
too late
to be
someone else.
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Categories:
reliving, life,
Form: Free verse
I Am Still Reliving That Drive
I’m still reliving that drive
‘What are you thinking about over there?’
You deserve the world, so do I
there are stars in your eyes
‘What are you thinking about over there?’
Let this car take us the wrong way
there are stars in your eyes
again, and again in my mind
Let this car take us the wrong way
You
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Categories:
reliving, emotions, longing, love,
Form: Pantoum
Chasing Butterflies
She has long since left her childhood behind
but there are days
she looks outside
and sighs…
days she longs to run without a care
finding faces in the clouds
and chasing butterflies
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Categories:
reliving, childhood,
Form: Verse
Reliving
a sinister reminder
of tortures of the past
is causing me to flounder
in deep shadows cast
been through this before
thought it had been conquered
never again to abhor
nor have to be endured
who threw the flag?
why this penalty?
team's beginning to
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Categories:
reliving, life,
Form: Rhyme
Reliving Barefoot Memories
Barefoot on the sand
is it a warm place
that I dabble my toes
in the inviting water?
Say it is so, it has
been so dreary here.
I really need to escape
to a place the sun shines.
Sparkling and glimmering
crystals catch my attention
like a child discovering a
diamond or a new toy.
If only I could be barefoot
walking along the beach
every day
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Categories:
reliving, beach, change, emotions, i
Form: Free verse
Reliving Those Special Moments
If it wasn't for the old Poetry Soup
Keeping my brain active and alive
I'd be a candidate for an old folks home
My mind is in overdrive
Still got lots to say and do
Before my final day of departure
This old world should sit up and take notice
And that is just for starters
My brain is literally bursting apart
Waiting to
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Categories:
reliving, memory,
Form: Narrative
Reliving Upside Down
Reliving Upside Down
by Odin Roark
The Jungle Gym geodesic glistened,
Afternoon showers dripped,
Languorous droplets fell,
Saturating sand below,
Just like then.
Bench of parents
Reflected memories old,
Stroller wheels struggling,
Obstinate sand as obstacle,
Giggles and screeches
From canopy covered pram,
Bumpy ride for
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Categories:
reliving, absence, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry
Reliving Clive Rights
not so lone ago
on the road i know
i was there
we were everywhere
no doudt it was race rout
to make change
some say we were insane
walking day and night
i remember
RELIVING CLIVE RIGHTS
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Categories:
reliving, adventure, change,
Form: Light Verse
Reliving the Past
Sitting cross legged beside a bonfire
Flipping though old photos
Going back in time to the already expired
Reliving wonderful memories
There’s baby me butt naked covered in bubbles
Sister and Brother joining me too
Now I remember the greatness of having no troubles
Captured times will do that to you
A cute one of Mama when she was a girl
In black
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Categories:
reliving, family, happinessold, clothes, me,
Form: I do not know?
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