Short Flashbacks Poems

same eyes with a new name
in a new skin
my nightmare flashbacks movie frame...

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Flashbacks come when I’m alone,
a smell, a sound
and suddenly, I’m back there again....

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God’s heart ~
globe of love and light,
flashbacks we remember fondly.
Why did we leave?...

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FLASHBACKS

The flashbacks seem to come thick and fast
Ever since I opened that photo album
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memories come creeping
flashbacks to grief
ignoring the happy moments I treasure
in my soul...

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Open graves, petrichor pelts a casket nailed shut—awoken by trembling flashbacks, clawing for air.
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Flashbacks I would
         rather not see
I yearn 
      for your love returned . . .
          as my reality...

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SUMMER HEAT FLASHBACKS…

Dry heat cracked the ground;
Wet whips cracked ancestors’ backs—
Juxtaposed flashbacks:-...

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lights flare inside my mind
of pain, agony ~ doubt flashbacks of love
blindsiding my heart
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Listen to poem:

flashbacks are corkscrews!
each loop 
entwines
what was,
with what
could be,
when cork 
pops!
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Flashbacks are the safe havens 
          for those who want to escape
 from their mundane routines.



2nd Place...

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Under the jacaranda tree,
   hoping for some shade,
      I dream old dreams
         evoking immemorial flashbacks.

Placed 3
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A sudden embarrassment,
  a moment of shame

A lifetime remembered
   —in flashbacks of pain

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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Caught inside a memory,
with flashbacks of desire

Your scent returns as lightning
—my heart a copper wire

(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)...

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I hear you
Pounding loudly
Soundly 
Falling fast asleep

Each drop
Flashbacks
Going back and forth
Pores raising

The sound of rain
Starting all over again...

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No relaxation
Must keep my distance from you
I see flashbacks of your face
You don't have me trapped
Your comments I will ignore
I'm safe from your delusions


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       enduring
             flashbacks 
of traumatic experience 
of almost drowning;
          he swears 
he's never going 
              swimming...
             again.
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Illusions,symbols of childhood,
coloured filled swathes of painterly
hues.A  private fantasy in slow
motion suspended in space.An
abstracted blur in flashbacks of
yesteryear,caught in a daydream....

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I choke on this frigid air,
riding with the windows down; 
Melodic foreboding sound 
beats slowly against my mind; 
Flashbacks jolt my steering wheel; 
Worn out drive needs a new track,
our playlist of memories....

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f ervid
  l ayered ~
   a rrive unbidden ~
    s napshots of joy
      h earten same ~ 
        b ully reviews
         a dmonish ...
           c austically
             k notting 
              s erenity
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traditionalist
stoic
genius:
          influence
          status
          myths:
rhythms
sensations
flashbacks:
                legendary
                unique
                alive:
passionate
procreate
survive...

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The taste of blood
Is upon my tongue
The screams within my head. 

Freighten of this nightmare ?

Flashbacks of a bloody knife 
With the rotten smell
Still in the air. 

Just a nightmare I keep saying
Or could it be I'm insane ?...

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Memories so vivid
     Feelings so deep
Visceral flashbacks
     Sparked by a song

The essence of time
     Transcended
For a moment
     For just a moment

Is life linear?
     Feelings belie
Back to what is perceived
     As reality...

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Our Mysterial World

Our Mysterial World

I dissociate to observe myself
from outside my body
I feel separated
I’m dreaming 
Flashbacks torrent
I’m in one place
yet my psyche is in another
Simultaneous presence
At ease with bilocation.
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The words are still perfect
  as speech becomes marred

Intention unblemished
  delivery though scarred

The memories embedded
  all flashbacks infirm

Escape now for others
  —their light yet to burn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)...

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