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Retrospection Poems

A Time To Reflect

"we are
All pawns in the chessboard of an
Unknown skilled magician..." (By Poet)

On a calm tranquil afternoon,
When playful chirping and cooing  
Of birds lavishly entertain my throbbing senses,
I drown myself in reverie and retrospection,
Of times past, times spent well,
And times my mind was occupied with -
The unique mysteries of a universe I will
Never be able

Categories: retrospection, journey, life,
Form: Free verse

Retrospection

In retrospection, I should have been the bigger person.
But how could have I been, when I was the one secretly hurting
From that secret you had simply and conveniently forgotten...?

Categories: retrospection, allusion, break up, first
Form: Sijo

Young Once More

Young Once More.
.
Beyond furrow and story filled line
Haggard and lived in drooping sallow skin
Weathered and tired by the scourge of time
Disguises a youthful heart that resides within
Cheeky clear smiling  eyes
Light up as beacons on a dark velvet night
Reviling the beauty beyond facade disguise
On reminisces of her happy childhood take flight
For a few brief moments

Categories: retrospection, age, celebration, childhood, youth,
Form: Triolet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Repository of Retrospection

I see them in the field of the future
harvesting the unripe fruits of hope.
In unseen graveyards greedy ghosts grope...
Nothing is left for posterity to nurture.

The beauty of their ashes glows in gloom;
I hear the bomb-blast of their past errors.
Silence ushered in the threat of terrors,
O the peak of pain... the den of doom!

Reality rests in

Categories: retrospection, analogy, philosophy, political,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Train of Retrospection

Platform breezes,
spitting rain,
red brick station,
vintage train.
Take a seat,
relax with ease.
Conductor's voice,
'Your tickets please'

Time to leave,
the whistles cry,
release of brakes,
hydraulic sigh.
Boiler stoked,
the pressure's high,
clouds of steam
feed hazy sky.

Pace increases,
prospects vast,
golden sun,
then shadows cast.
Tunnel vision,
fortunes passed,
speed illusion,
double fast.

Transport systems
side by side,
railways clatter,
waters glide.
Broken buildings
all but hide
industries that
sadly died.

Sleeping coalmines,
unforged steel,
stillness grips
the potter's wheel.
Once fired kilns
no more anneal.
Unemployment
fears

Categories: retrospection, life, political, work
Form: Rhyme

Retrospection of a Loving Mind

Nothing lasts forever
think you're so smart but you aren't so clever
You'll be crying when everything comes together
Bet you thought that love would hold out and break you never
But here is the truth at the end
It's better to remain a friend

Now that this story is coming closer
to discovering what is better or worser
You keep on reading

Categories: retrospection, introspection, lost love, love,
Form: Lyric

Guilt and Retrospection

somewhere lost behind my musings
one two three
let's count them all
while all rhyme and comprehension
swan dive spirals
as it falls
somewhere in the secret synapse
four five six
negotiate
while all thoughts and disposition
still remind me
I was late.

Categories: retrospection, loss,
Form: Free verse

Retrospection

On you, it was my heart that was set.
And I knew, I was in love with you, 
Before the first time, we had ever met.

But to you, no more, could I possibly,
See a way, to give.
Once I began to die from a broken heart,
When for me, in return, you couldn’t live.

So I was left with

Categories: retrospection, lost love, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme