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Flashbacks Poems - Poems about Flashbacks

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Premium Member The Empty Chair
I leave the sun-dappled autumn sidewalk, entering the office The empty chair there lingers. dark tendrils coiling in my mind— my blind rage pleading for quiet healing. flashbacks clash like striking thunder opening buried treasures of truth. and in that final...Read the rest...
Categories: flashbacks, cry, emotions, grief, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member the rearview
Summer’s in the rearview mirror, re-experience it at your peril. it’ll only distract you now, and maybe depress you. Summer shifts your orbit, from classrooms and remote zooms, to lollygagging by beaches and snuggling in cozy hotel rooms. As intense...Read the rest...
Categories: flashbacks, humor, memory, missing, school,
Form: Free verse



Trapped
Are the feelings meant to subside now you have gone? What if I still lay petrified in my bed? Is it supposed to get easier as time goes on? Cos I still carve your initials in lines of...Read the rest...
Categories: flashbacks, abuse, body, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme

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Premium Member Flashbacks - Four way collaboration
For turning you invisible, I'll always be regretful, when things got critical was easy to be forgetful. I left you in a state of shock , in tears heavier than a rock. , I heard you, but left you...Read the rest...
Categories: flashbacks, angst,
Form: Lyric
Flasbacks
Those flashbacks often dance holding my heart's strings. With their curvaceous move, they usually lost their balance and their obstinate move further reduce the tension of those strings. And then those memories fall, releasing the tightly held strings & then...Read the rest...
Categories: flashbacks, first love, for her,
Form: Free verse



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...Read the rest...
Categories: flashbacks, abuse, child abuse, remember,
Form: Free verse
Reliving the Moment
His eyes were wild with angry He roughly shoved her out of the vehicle I froze, terrified Her life was in danger Or was it my life in danger Our lives where in danger She was...Read the rest...
Categories: flashbacks, abuse, anger, anxiety, courage,
Form: Free verse
Red
In the middle of the night I ran myself a bath. I sat on the ledge with my feet in. I sigh as I look down at the familiar blade in my hand. I stare for a...Read the rest...
Categories: flashbacks, abuse, body, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Summer Heat Flashbacks
SUMMER HEAT FLASHBACKS… Dry heat cracked the ground; Wet whips cracked ancestors’ backs— Juxtaposed flashbacks:-...Read the rest...
Categories: flashbacks, allegory, analogy, deep, extended
Form: Haiku
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...Read the rest...
Categories: flashbacks, analogy, literature, remember,
Form: Free verse
Flashbacks
It takes me away felling sick of my own life, wondering if I should live or die Swallowing pills down untill I'm done Stand on this roof till the morning comes I stand and simplify my hate, Suicide is...Read the rest...
Categories: flashbacks, abuse,
Form: Rhyme
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 ...Read the rest...
Categories: flashbacks, abuse, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Flashbacks
A sudden embarrassment, a moment of shame A lifetime remembered —in flashbacks of pain (Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...Read the rest...
Categories: flashbacks, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Flashbacks
There’s this terrible strife in my life That leaves me feeling sore Good that you took away the knife So, I can soar some more I’m awfully sorry, dear, I can’t help myself anymore You’re the one I truly adore...Read the rest...
Categories: flashbacks, emotions, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Locket of Flashbacks
Your arms surround me, As the sun drowns in the sea. The golden sand beneath, Feels soft to my bare feet. Silver streaks of moon rays, Break through my hair. As the day melts into night, I can feel the cold air. Our...Read the rest...
Categories: flashbacks, deep, depression,
Form: Rhyme

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