Short Flashbacks Poems

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Premium Member Flashbacks

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flashbacks are corkscrews! each loop entwines what was, with what could be, when cork pops!
Form: Verse


Premium Member Flashbacks


Flashbacks are the safe havens 
          for those who want to escape
 from their mundane routines.



2nd Place
Form: Verse

Premium Member Flashbacks

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

Placed 3
Form: Verse

Flashbacks

A sudden embarrassment,
  a moment of shame

A lifetime remembered
   —in flashbacks of pain

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Young Girl Near Window Reads a Book

The xanthous muse flies
New book scent and candle wax
Waltz of butterflies
Soft turns wonder at flashbacks
Waits for exciting climax
Form: Verse


Urit Memoriae

Caught inside a memory,
with flashbacks of desire

Your scent returns as lightning
—my heart a copper wire

(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Savouring the present

Fall is a time capsule.
Precious moments turn into memories we treasure.
We become collectors of flashbacks.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 2nd place 2026
Form: Other

Thrust of Rain

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
Form: Rhyme

PTSD Mode

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
Form: Sedoka

Premium Member Flashbacks


       enduring
             flashbacks 
of traumatic experience 
of almost drowning;
          he swears 
he's never going 
              swimming...
             again.
Form: Verse

Premium Member A Patchwork Pastiche

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.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Playlist of Memories

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.

Premium Member Flashbacks


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
Form: Verse

Premium Member Connections

traditionalist
stoic
genius:
          influence
          status
          myths:
rhythms
sensations
flashbacks:
                legendary
                unique
                alive:
passionate
procreate
survive
Form: List

Deadly

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 ?

Premium Member Presence of Mind

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

Our Mysterial World

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.

Yet To Burn

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)
Form: Rhyme

Deja Vu Days

These days seem familiar
Like my messy hair,
Each memory; a strand of hair 
Every brushstroke 
I see flashbacks of renowned moments
Distant memories; they begin to fade
Every brushstroke
Putting my hair in place
Now looking like beauty and grace
Ready to begin my day

What Happened

The flashbacks hurt me
drifting to times of love, smiling
or when the anger began
every moment
reliving, contemplating
no patience
must understand
obsession
cant function
life falling apart
her face
its always smiling
she hid her face when angry
she is hiding now
Form:

Historical Foreshadowing

Historical Foreshadowing

Marring-
The once brilliant Sanctuary
-A commonplace Event-
Without a place.

An opening up
Of old and new torments
And
    Run
        On
           Thoughts

-Half Unanswered-

Stop at the border
-In semidarkness-
The edge of eternity.

Premium Member Time Flies Aloof

Days pass aloof to all hearts reap,
strays memories we wish to keep.
Ploys of time constantly remold
joys that we wish to ever hold.
While eyes close to deeply reflect,
vile time spies flashbacks to infect.
Should time leave my recall intact -
could be my joy would first react!
Form: Rhyme

Nightmares

Around, all around, the dark memories gather.

My dread grows as the dark one's touch falls against

my naked soul.

It mutilates me, and darkly my blood drips to the broken ground.

In horror I cry out while the reaper takes me 

Now alone, my essence falls upon darkened eyes.

THIS IS MY HELL.

Flashback

Your touch.
Your love.
Your voice.

Comes back to me
in flashbacks.

Your pain.
Your hungry gaze.
Your possessiveness.

Comes back to me
in flashbacks.

Your anger.
Your guilt.
Your power.

Comes back to me
in flashbacks.

My brokenness.
My pain.
My memory.

Comes back to me,
In flashbacks.

Broken

As the knife carves into my wrist
As the belt tightens around my throat
The pain is increasing
But so are the flashbacks
You hurt me
You took all of me
And gave me back a broken heart
So i am slicing away my pain
Choking away my hurt
I am dead
Maybe if i never met you i would still be alive
But no
I am dead
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