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Short Retaking Poems

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


Never Letting Go
We couldn’t survive
each to the other
We couldn’t let go
to live
We couldn’t give
without retaking
We couldn’t express
what we felt
We couldn’t stay quiet
when being together
We couldn’t come back
from the past
We couldn’t forgive
what time had rescinded
We couldn’t remember
— to forget

(Woodstock: Summer, 1969)
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Categories: retaking, pain,
Form: Free verse




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