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Retraces Poems - Poems about Retraces

Retraces Poems - Examples of all types of poems about retraces to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for retraces.
Premium Member 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. T......Read the rest...
Categories: retraces, memory, relationship,
Form: Verse



Thoughts Go Away
...If you write everyday sometimes you get lucky As words come together and thoughts go away The feelings take over as silence retraces What memory has bartered —your fortune to say (The New......Read the rest...
Categories: retraces, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Of Vagabond Dreams
...How long will this road grow Gliding down these asphalt ribbons Content I drift with no urgency My mind wandering where it will My feet zigzag as the wind caresses my skin I cruise safely as ......Read the rest...
Categories: retraces, dream, travel,
Form: Free verse
The Machine
...I built the Machine. So did my friends. So did my parents, and so did theirs. People I don’t know built the Machine, too. We all helped build the Machine. The Machine helps us. A line stretche......Read the rest...
Categories: retraces, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Is No Fable
...I was relaxing in my sunroom, one very peaceful afternoon, Enjoying the fables of Aesop, and all the flowers abloom. The view from the many windows, was gold sunshiny delight, With blossoms and ......Read the rest...
Categories: retraces, adventure, animal, fantasy, flower,
Form: Couplet



Let the Pin Drop
...Let the pin drop down the abyss of memory, where the silence retraces the past and the recollections challenge what is real. Faces, voices, scenes, places—never lost, as the mind eternalizes the......Read the rest...
Categories: retraces, appreciation, birth, magic, memory,
Form: Free verse
Abandoned Child
...Your walk Through the wild urban path Under lampposts trees. In vain you travel questioning The meanders of your grief. The slimy paving Of a deserted gallery Echoes your steps of suffe......Read the rest...
Categories: retraces, child abuse, death, hope,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Has Fate Have Something Special Planned
...She longs to take possession of her heart, but she quickly forgets. He used his flattering power to gleam the pages and feast. Like the wind tossing the spider holding tight on a s......Read the rest...
Categories: retraces, emotions, fate,
Form: Prose Poetry
Enduring Being Apart
...Everything off, In the darkness quiet seeps into me. My body is tired yet my mind continues. As if searching rounded corners which never end Looking for something which hides in the night. But I......Read the rest...
Categories: retraces, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member International Women's Day
... As a byway ahead grows quite dim late evening ‘s radiance slowly pales away --- This fiery yet compassionate woman brushes luster into her hair and retraces the gleam of Mother M......Read the rest...
Categories: retraces, freedom, rights, women,
Form: Verse
Wafflestompers
...Weekend wanderlust, backwoods trail tramping Accesorized with well-heeled, hard-soled boots Forrest frolicking, overnight camping Freefalling footsteps connect to grassroots Lost in labyrinth of ......Read the rest...
Categories: retraces, adventure, earth, mountains,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Spring In Isfahan
...S pring in her steps she wanders in wonder R ecoils in amazement retraces the year I gnites the haven the Persians call ‘bunder’ N o regrets but resilience beyond graffiti of fear G ive m......Read the rest...
Categories: retraces, peace,
Form: Acrostic
The Boy Within
...The small boy falls and hurts his elbow and knees, and cries quietly on the inside, because there is no one there to feel his pain, or give him comfort, for the small boy is 86 years old. His ......Read the rest...
Categories: retraces, age, dream, first love,
Form: Prose
Specter of the Stonemason
...Jeb was a veteran of the War of all wars, When brother fought brother and families closed doors. Wounded in battle in the year of sixty-one; Four years before Gettysburg, fore' it just begun. J......Read the rest...
Categories: retraces, dark, deep, irony, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whiskers of Mild Instincts
...Life is so tough, strong and high bag of grit and elasticity difficult to die. Staying strong even with a hit head gives it strength to spot a hidden bread. Combination of senses so p......Read the rest...
Categories: retraces, animal, cat, nature,
Form: Couplet

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