Short Looking Back Poems

Short Looking Back Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Looking Back by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Looking Back by length and keyword.


Dead Road

Looking back, was the rose in me,
Looser having his heart savagely grime...

Looming at the jar,
Was the poisoned love.


Premium Member The Path Behind Me

Behind me
The path goes along broken
The large ruts
Jagged trail
Not looking back I move on
Perfection  ahead

Russell Sivey
Form: Verse

No One Follows

Step sideways
   looking back over your shoulder.
No one follows.
The path we lay in life
   is ours alone
and No One follows.
© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.

Living Judgement

Am pondering on decisions I made,
looking back the way I came,
search my face in mirrors frame,
though what past can be changed?
© Ray Write  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Laughter

i always knew lookin back 
on the tears
would make me laugh
but i never knew 
looking back on the laughs
would make me cry again


Internal Climate

A burning desire
Sodom became ash for lust
Strewn in the gutter

No one desrved it
Like Mrs. Lot, for looking back
Her salt is preserved
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Looking back

I was a silly fool
I fell for your charm and chivalry
~ little crumbs here and there



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 1st place 2025
Form: Other

Looking Back

Dying
in perspective
The cart
within the horse
The end a
retrospective
When running
— your last course

(Dreamsleep: July, 2024)
Form: Rhyme

We Came Along Ways

my mind is stack
looking back
how many was wack
but they fought back
to put us on the rack
thoses days nevere fades
WE CAME ALONGWAYS

Revelation

I see him looking back at me,
Round every corner, round every tree.
There is nary a place that I can hide
To escape my father deep inside

Premium Member Solace

Eyes fixed on the past 
Looking back on solemn days 
Heartaches bred sorrows 
Yet the sun smiles down on me 
I found inner peace with God
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Without Me

WITHOUT YOU

Without regrets, without looking back
If you read this do believe,
Life WITHOUT you is like the color black

SKAT
 2-23-10
© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

A Fish Tale

I once saw a fish on a hook,
traveling up and down a brook
with a tasty worm inside
wiggling once then died
looking back with, a dirty look
© Bobby May  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Looking back at ya

"You gotta have a puppy!"
Don't even need a guppy!"
Don't want a doggy surprise, 
Gazing at such soulful eyes,
"Looking back at ya, puppy!"
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member New Beginnings - a Shadorma

Wandering,
from my tired shadow-
    toward the sun.
      Looking back,
as dusk’s mystic elixir, 
  liquidates my past.

   ~30 Dec 2015~
© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Shadorma

Life Is a Blessing

Looking back through time
The window in my mind
Remembering what life was
Life is a blessing some forget as we age

Submitted 5/9/19
Photo #1
© Byron Kaya  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Storms Eye

a mighty torrent unleashing wrath – storms eye a scattering of debris puzzle pieces no looking back tantrum
Form: Haiku

The Political Fence

I sat on my Republican fence.
Looking at politicians from thence.
And what did I see
Looking back at me?
Disenfranchised freedoms with no sense.
Form: Limerick

Back In Time

looking back
my minds stack
what took place
all about corlor and race
what so many has to face
its still back of my mind
GOING
BACK IN TO TIME

Cremation

Into the flames,turned into ash,tempreture rising,no looking back...Gone in a second,a goodbye,a tear,death is a warm welcome,with nothing to fear...
Form: Rhyme

No Looking Back

we're moving ahead
we are the of the bed
mane the light red
we had to stop
remove that block
get on the good lot
 the stacks
ITS A FACT
NO LOOKING BACK

Looking Back

From the day we met
A thousand years have vanished,
They passed so quickly --
The children are grown and gone,
Winds blow freely through the house.
© Jim Wilson  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member STARS

When we look up at the stars
may we be blessed… their glow and beauty to savor…

And when we see them looking back at us…
do our best to return the favor.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member First Special Christmas Present

I played my toy piano.
Sounded like happy tunes of christmas chimes.
Looking back on turquoise memories.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Today Where Would We Be

this wasn't a easy task
we didn't run out of gas
now at last
looking back I it was tough too 
FOR THEM TO GET FREEDOM KEY
TODAY without them
WHERE WOULD WE BE

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