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Years to become stone

February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 EdF 299 Views 4 Comments children, Ed Fisher, grieving, memory, stone, trauma

Years to become stone … No touch of kindness upon this shoulder nor spoken wisdom to calm No tears to

Poetry Rhyming Verse

A Drawing Tutorial On Portraiture

June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 Jamie Lee Hamann 1131 Views 4 Comments face, memory, Pencil Drawing, Portraiture

A Drawing Tutorial in Portraiture 1. A Drawing Tutorial With pencil I will learn your portraiture to realize the world

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Another Winter to Shovel Snow

March 30, 2019March 30, 2019 Jamie Lee Hamann 1783 Views 3 Comments family, giant banks, memory, shoveling snow, snow shovels, winter

Another Winter to Shovel Snow I When young would shovel snow every season before the plow would drive down our

Rhyming Verse

The Valley of the Antelope

February 2, 2019 Jamie Lee Hamann 1260 Views 3 Comments home, memory, place, valley

The Valley of the Antelope 1.) Hiking and History A valley of no written history. After a drive past delapidated

Free Verse Poetry

Closure for an eternity

September 25, 2018September 25, 2018 EdF 1490 Views 1 Comment Angels, beauty, eternal, Heaven, memory, peace, rest

Closure for an eternity He said once to himself I don’t have any idea how long just ask your heart

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Each One a Memory, a Part of Me

September 6, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1103 Views 2 Comments brothels, memory, mines, past lives, poem, warring

Remnants of my lesser lives, memories of souls slain in warring dues, and lilting the breeze that reminds me of

Free Verse Poetry

Let’s Make A Memory

September 2, 2018September 2, 2018 Rasma Raisters 1569 Views 4 Comments dreams, family, love, memory, poems, rainbows

Another Memory … With each new day that passes – let’s make a memory. Let’s make the good times last

Rhyming Verse Satire

When I’m Dead and Gone…

July 3, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1188 Views 4 Comments dead and gone, live penniless, memory, millionaire, next life, poem

I relish the fact of my demise, slow or fast, no compromise, I just hope my children become millionaires when

Inspirational Poetry Poetry Rhyming Verse

When I Used to Fly

June 23, 2018June 23, 2018 Tony DeLorger 1215 Views 4 Comments fly, freedom, high above, memory, over sea and land, poem

Ruminations of flight entice, memories of floating upon clouds, shouting out loud in blissful release never leave my conscious mind,

Free Verse Poetry

Lost Beyond Dreams

December 27, 2017December 27, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 1148 Views 2 Comments dreams, lost, love, memory, sunrise, sunset

Lost Beyond Dreams Where did thy love wander, lost beyond dreams? My heart weeps with great sadness, Which engulfs

Free Verse Poetry Romantic Poetry

Etched in Mind, My First Love

July 28, 2017July 28, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1575 Views 6 Comments etched, first love, memory, poem, remembering, sadness for loss

Etched in mind those moments that seal memories, preserve them whole and resound with a perpetual knell of those defining

Poetry Romantic Poetry

You Will Sense Me Yet Again

February 18, 2017February 19, 2017 Surabhi Kaura 1504 Views 4 Comments ashes, beads of breath, flaming chest, memory, sacred thread, sense

You Will Sense Me Yet Again You will sense me yet again When, Where and How? I know not, But

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Memory’s Twilight

January 1, 2017January 1, 2017 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2095 Views 14 Comments love, memory, memory's twilight, reflection, souls, twilight

Memory’s Twilight Memory’s twilight has come upon me in quiet reflection, As another year comes to an end they

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Reflections of Age

September 25, 2016January 20, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1411 Views 4 Comments age, memory, poem, reflections, sadness, time

Youth held in reflections, unwanted truths Reflections of past… memories held Time carves deep grooves, etches skin and minds peruse

Free Verse Poetry

Never Will You Be Gone

September 12, 2016September 15, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2052 Views 8 Comments comfort, gone, love, memory, poem, suffering

Never will you be gone….Gone, but not forgotten … ever-enduring Never Will You Be Gone…in heart and memory I keep

Memoir Poetry Rhyming Verse

My Grandmother, She Had a Way

August 11, 2016 Melissa Hougard 1873 Views 14 Comments beauty, grandmother, hardship, loss, love, memory

Grandmother, in loving memory… My Grandmother, she had a way- beautiful ’til her dying day. She used to say, she’d

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Just a Thought

June 19, 2016May 11, 2017 Nathan Bernardo 1843 Views 8 Comments awareness, confusion, illusion, memory, thought

Just a Thought It’s like wet ash when it sticks to the skin, a thought sticks in the mind once

Epistle Poetry

Old Dayton’s Memories

June 9, 2016June 12, 2016 EdF 1472 Views 5 Comments dreams, memories, memory, old man, rewards

I’d asked him about the war. He sat quietly sipping black coffee as his eye’s took on a distant look.

Poetry Satire

My Dummy

June 2, 2016November 13, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2182 Views 4 Comments addiction, consolation, discomfort, memory, pacifier, poem

My Dummy Where oh where is

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Unrepentant

June 2, 2016November 12, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1681 Views 2 Comments beauty, chill, choices, dull, memory, pane

Nature’s scowl Rattle my window, chilled

Free Verse Poetry

Loss of Memory

May 10, 2016October 20, 2016 Tony DeLorger 1561 Views 4 Comments love lost, memory, pain, sadness, switch, understanding

Loss of Memory … As it was, and as