Short Recollect Poems

I can’t recollect
Lipstick on my neck
Blankets are a wreck

By Robb A. Kopp...

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Burn in the cool sun,
Be a friend of the old moon
to recollect love


© Mahtab Bangalee
16 October, 2023
Chattogram...

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The Mystery of Pain- Emily Dickinson
Pain cannot recollect
When it began.
It has no future.
It’s infinite realms contain
New periods of pain....

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M-editate
A-nd
R-ecollect
Y-our
E-veryday
E-vent's
N-oble

A-spect
B-y
E-rasing
L-ife's
L-onely
A-nguish

Topic: Birthday of Maryeen A. Abella (April 20) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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My subconscious mind reminds me
thoughts of you still linger
Trying to forget the feel of you,
but these thoughts of mine
recollect without permission
Causing a slow submission to my
mental addiction...

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Late at night
Starring into the half-light
Trying to recollect
What happens next
Trying to rekindle old flames
From my past
Dreamers dream
Or so it seems
They say nothing lasts 
Forever lasts with me....

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The advent of pleasant summer
Arouses my poetic quotient clear
I become versing spree
In my leisure super free

Ideas abound gush from mind
As I recollect and rewind
Nature is the supreme Lord
Will endow me with qualities of Bard..!!...

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The arrival of my favourite spring
Triggers my fanciful feeling
Thus, I be versing spree
In my respite awesomely free

Ideas rush in my mind
As I recollect and rewind
Yeh Nature thou are supreme entity
Endow me with qualities of deity..!...

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What remarkable limestones
We have in our memory!
Our buried paradise;
The need to re-examine, recollect, and reorder...
Why we don't bound from one
                              lily pad to the other more often

Appears as our fatal mystery....

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A place in which to sigh
impressions to recollect
       in lasting retrospect
Colours cry wet-on-wet
images of a sunset.

A valparetto on the sea..
...Vivaldi strings that sing
of Winter & Spring
Summer and Fall on pause..
so many memories to recall...

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I no longer face people 
My life is framed in a screen

I trudge along from screen to screen
Television, computer and mobile

When was the last time I kissed a face
Or held someone’s hand for a while
Cannot recollect….

Can somebody help before I scream...

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The fragrance of a memory
From childhood long ago
I’m brought back
To a fenced in backyard
Crayola blue sky
Burnt umber ground
Islands of green and yellow grass
The scent of Summer Hill wafts 
As the unseen is revealed
A dream remembered then forgotten
You say it didn't happen
I recollect the aroma that says it did...

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Love, do I know you? 
Then why can't I recollect
A single time I dared to say
I loved someone
With no trace of my family in them?
Sometimes, drowning 
In the rabbithole,
I'd wonder, and then realise
I'd never admitted to myself,
That I too had my dose
Of crushes and elusive love,
The usual spice of adolescence. 

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When we're, at last,
Called in the night;
Called to recollect;
Called to account;
Rejoice.
Be prepared.
Ready as ever.
Nothing else matters--
Not the dishes,
The books,
The videos,
The times remembered.
Did you follow your heart?
Don't allow the
Dostoevsky character's last words to
come from your lips-----
Ever....

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My dream of my 
Life
Has faded with 
Age

I walk through
this life
And just keep
turning the page

We recollect
and we look back
Never expecting our
present

and never seeing the
attack

The attack of the
Future
is always at our heels

But our heads still tilt
towards the ground
and we choose not to

feel...

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WINDOW OF THE SOUL

She painted herself as a cathedral window, sometimes in pieces, surrounded by ethereal color, true eyes, full lips.  The windows of her soul, open and attentive. Will you recollect her countenance? Will you frame the friendship or glance at another portrait more to your portents - a shadow crossing?

3/5/2018...

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Time, friend or foe
           I really don’t know
Both, I suspect
          As I recollect
Friend in a way
           I’d have to say
For I’ve known love
          That I can speak of
And I’ve been blessed
          I might suggest
But foe, I report
          For time runs short
And must make haste
          No time to waste...

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Pause, soberly reflect and recollect
Today, your thoughts, the things you did
Mentally your day revisit
Pause, soberly reflect and recollect
Evaluate truthfully, bias deficit
Ponder in truth, sentiments be rid
Pause, soberly reflect and recollect
Today, your thoughts, the things you did.

(Placed 5th in Giorgio Veneto's TRIOLET contest.)...

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CAN'T

Can't stop the tears from falling.
Can't stop the memories from calling
me back to all those beautiful times,
expressed in so many of my rhymes.

Can't stop the tears from flowing.
Can't stop the memories from going
into those places I should set aside.
Yet, them, I am unable to hide,
as I recollect that beautiful ride.

B. J. "A" 2
June 5th 2011...

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How white and blue together recollect us
to the summer sky and the imagined swallows
darting in exquisite geometry
under the great domed space of the heavens,
like the Basilica in Constantinople
containing and giving space.
And how I held you for a moment that was infinite
and then was gone like an angel fearing enchantment
into some  finite boundaried world....

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How white and blue together recollect us
to the summer sky and the imagined swallows
darting in exquisite geometry
under the great domed space of the heavens,
like the Basilica in Constantinople
containing and giving space.
And how I held you for a moment that was infinite
and then you were gone like an angel fearing enchantment
into some finite boundaried world...

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How white and blue together recollect us
to the summer sky and the imagined swallows
darting in exquisite geometry
under the great domed space of the heavens,
like the Basilica in Constantinople
containing and giving space.
And how you held me for a moment that was infinite
and then you were gone like an angel fearing enchantment
into some finite boundaried world...

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Peace of park a day of joy
Basking warm with wind the butterfly
Descending on our finest hour
Another year gone by

Recollect that time has past
All now older contemplate
How life will carry through
The punctuation of a special day

Shadows carry longer
Time departs a place of peace
To leave a memory
Of ages always present

Fred Jagenberg – July 6, 2019...

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The Wit of Twain

I recollect, Pa always used to say

There is no pay if you don’t stop your play

Maybe figured I'd learned

Knowledge not given but earned 

Life is a success if you don’t delay
© 6/20/2015 

Mark Twain Quote:*The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Contest Name: Write with the Wit of Twain 
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich...

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When I wake up in the middle of the night
Trying to recollect the weird dream that I had
The only thing that comes in my mind 
Is that there is no way I am getting it right.

I have been studying stuffs 
Which i think are the reasons for that
Or is it possible that I have been really awakened.

Just out of curiosity I want to ask
Have you also been through this ''Lucid" stuff?...

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