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The Yellow SwingThe yellow plastic swing once hung
From branches on a tree
And we would push our daughter there,
Not knowing what would be.
For when a baby’s young, the future’s
Filled with hope and dreams,
Yet every path ahead may...
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Categories:
daughter, memory,
Form: Rhyme
The Changing Face of Shame
So much has changed
in the past 50 years or so
one thing is the word shame
once a friend now our foe
Half a century ago it had a fear
a true fear of God was felt
among a generation...
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Categories:
change, god, memory,
Form: Rhyme
A Poet's Heartfelt Ode To ItalyA Poet's heartfelt ode to Italy
is the murmur of the calmest sea
heard at the close of a long day;
anchored boats in the bay of Amalfi
await sunset and nobody has a plea
to escape danger, so nostalgic...
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Categories:
beauty, emotions, joy, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Cursive TypewriterI revive now the spot
Where our beloved Nanabot
Stylishly wrote out thought
Said what she ought
And oft what she ought not
Have fun, feel free to take a shot
If you left a heartfelt message, she would like it...
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Categories:
memory,
Form: Rhyme
Identity CrisisWould you remember me
When there's not much of me left?
When I'm faded,
Like a rock chipped away by erosion.
Would you remember me
When you're almost unrecognisable?
When I don't think I know who you are anymore;
Like a tree...
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Categories:
change, future, identity, memory,
Form: Free verse
Cold Case: A Missing Hour of Afternoon
I step out from a second-story window,
float along roads of slow-churning lullabies,
raptured in response to ice cream truck’s bellow.
A clear case of cold sugar—wide gumball eyes,
mobile memories wrapped in coats of corn-snow
hugged around a thin...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Ottava rima
My GrandmaI remember my grandma’s house
Spending so many hours with her
She always had that one special chair
No one but her was allowed to use
She always told stories of life in the old world
And I would listen...
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Categories:
family, grandmother, memory,
Form: Free verse
Message Left on the WindshieldThe rain fogged my window and thoughts
It triggered the grief of losing you
It cried for me when I couldn't
What I would give just to see you one more time
I just want to see you from...
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Categories:
memory, goodbye, grief, i love
Form: Blank verse
California MemoriesHer name was Charlie
And she is what I’d call poetry
In the way that dreamers hope to capsule up and be immortalized beyond the two hands that control it all
A wildflower twisted up with...
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Categories:
memory, adventure, art, crush, fun,
Form: Blank verse
Pools Of Memory~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
in the pools of gold
lie memories lost and found
beginnings, endings
...
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Categories:
memory,
Form: Senryu
Forgotten LoveYou said, "trust me, until death do us part",
But your plans were misbegotten.
Do you think that I've forgotten?
You said, "I'll always be your faithful love",
Yet I smell a fish gone rotten.
You must...
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Categories:
betrayal, memory,
Form: Rhyme
turning the page to a memory
I walk up the shady street of my memory,
up a big hill where I rode my bike down;
right to the end of our quiet dappled street,
and into a lush green park full of ...
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Categories:
memory,
Form: Verse
Face in the CrowdFor a moment I imagined
seeing your face in the crowd,
Smiling, as if it were expecting
To see me, and as the joy
Of a lifetime of love cascaded
Through my being I wanted to shout:
“Here...
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Categories:
imagination, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
An ethereal scentOur memory recalled an enchanting scent,
that once delighted and enlivened our soul,
so we invoked grace, according joy consent,
to manifest once again that we feel whole
and thus with the bugle sounded for ascent,
we rekindled the fragrance...
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Categories:
desire, joy, memory, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
Only a Chair
“It’s only a chair,” she said.
“And it’s old and too big and
dark for your new apartment.”
I looked again at the chair.
It IS old, though not an antique,
and it’s been with me all my life
in...
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Categories:
family, feelings, memory, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Memory Poems
Read wonderful memory poetry on the following sub-topics:
christmas, dad, daughter, death, funeral, in loving, loss of, mom, quilt, son,
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Definition | What is Memory in Poetry?
Poems Related to Memory
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