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Memories of Childhood Bliss

March 5, 2017March 5, 2017 Rasma Raisters 2989 Views 8 Comments bliss, Catskill Mountains, Childhood, memories

Childhood Bliss In this world of ours, often in the dark hours – thoughts run rampant through our minds. we

Our Last Night

February 24, 2017June 10, 2018 Kurt James 3161 Views 8 Comments Colorado, first love, Last Night, memories, Wyoming, Young Love

Our Last Night … There was this girl – I would never forget and it all began in the summer

Haiku Poetry

Childhood Memories – Haiku

February 11, 2017February 11, 2017 Nithya Venkat 13386 Views 4 Comments Childhood, childhood memories, haiku poetry, memories, playing

Wonderful days playing with my friends … Childhood memories bring a smile on my face and fill my heart

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

What Fills the Box of Day

February 1, 2017February 1, 2017 Tony DeLorger 2329 Views 5 Comments box, day, love, memories, moments, poem

Day folds into a small dark box, filed onto shelves of past’s dim recounting, and what light beheld a heart,

Free Verse Poetry

Midnight Rains

January 14, 2017January 4, 2024 Anjana 1417 Views 18 Comments imaginary, memories, raindrops, realities, sun

Midnight Rains How they always come so entwined your memories and these midnight rains, the silvery threads that once fondled

Free Verse Poetry

Where Did It Go…this Life?

January 9, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1830 Views 6 Comments go, journey, memories, poem, present, time

Where Does Time Go… Relentless this mind to wander, to sift through the sands of past, the joys and what’s

Haiku Poetry

Bygone Memories – Haiku

January 4, 2017January 14, 2017 Nithya Venkat 4481 Views 8 Comments haiku poetry, life, memories, poems

Bygone Memories As we grow old we tend to go back in time, flashes of the past come alive

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Memories…a balance gained

January 2, 2017January 16, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1990 Views 2 Comments lessons, memories, mistakes, pain & loss, poem, wisdom

Memory serves me well, yet why do halcyon days pale before the struggle and memories of loss that so haunt

Fiction Flash Fiction

Emerald Memories

December 30, 2016December 30, 2016 Phyllis Doyle Burns 2360 Views 6 Comments emerald, love, memories, new life, New Years Eve, relationship

Emerald Memories “Sarah, you are so stubborn!” Judy snatched up her jacket and left the house in frustration. They

Fiction Short Story

The Truck

December 25, 2016December 25, 2016 Ronnie Sowell 3367 Views 9 Comments Christmas, dad, father, memories, truck

The Truck “You better leave that old truck alone, you’re going to get hurt fooling with it.” Reggie Stamply

Inspirational Poetry Poetry

My Childhood Home

December 22, 2016 Tony DeLorger 3859 Views 9 Comments age, change, Childhood, home, memories, poem

I strolled the lanes, streets and byways of my childhood home, and like echoes of my past, I heard the

Free Verse Poetry

Winter Days

December 21, 2016March 21, 2017 Anjana 2992 Views 14 Comments color, dreams, memories, monotony, snow, spring, winter

Winter Days Yonder, each dawn breaks unceremoniously still donned in the night’s bleak attire, while a new day begins to

Christmas Creative Writing Memoir

Missing You at Christmas

December 17, 2016November 27, 2017 Rasma Raisters 2841 Views 10 Comments Christmas, memories, stars, yuletide

Christmas time … This was written some Christmases ago. One photo is of my parents shortly after they got married in

Christmas Free Verse Poetry

Tomato Soup Christmas

December 17, 2016November 15, 2017 EdF 2056 Views 5 Comments Christmas, free verse, holidays, memories, poetry, Tomato soup

Closing the peeling white lead painted cabinet doors two by two she said quietly tomato soup or tomato soup ? half listening

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Windows Of The Past

December 3, 2016October 2, 2017 Kurt James 2202 Views 10 Comments Black and White, Forgotten, memories, Old Photos, Photography, Sepia

Windows of the past – Since my early attempts of photography using the original Polaroid Instamatic camera I have been

Romantic Poetry

Love’s Delicate Countenance

November 27, 2016November 27, 2016 Tony DeLorger 2028 Views 2 Comments bliss, countenance, love, memories, poem, rekindle

Love’s delicate countenance, never forgotten… A Sweet Countenance Treasured the memories of love’s embrace, when world was silent, and all

Free Verse Poetry

Tangled in memories

November 9, 2016January 25, 2017 Anjana 2467 Views 12 Comments broken heart, lost love, memories, night, shadow, tears

Tangled in memories In the melancholy of the night, under the taunting moonlight, memories of you come gliding effortlessly through

Free Verse Poetry

Memory of Dreams

November 7, 2016November 7, 2016 EdF 1868 Views 10 Comments bare shoulders, memories, piano music, poetry, romance, woman

The piano danced quietly at the end of the paintings on her fingertips yet I was enriched by distraction like the

Free Verse Poetry

Return to Rocky Shore

October 31, 2016October 31, 2016 EdF 2750 Views 7 Comments Fathers, memories, poetry, rocky shores, seas, stories

Return to Rocky Shore Did we not after all come from the very same rocky shorn and misty shore but not

Poetry Rhyming Verse

Boxes, Nothing Really Lasts

October 20, 2016January 17, 2017 Tony DeLorger 1858 Views 2 Comments boxes, change, dust, memories, past, poem

Boxes plead, musty their engagement, with a dusty cement floor, the shadows of purpose wasted by time, and memories thinned

Free Verse Poetry

And the Wind Will Whisper Your Name to Me

September 21, 2016September 21, 2016 Rasma Raisters 5289 Views 8 Comments clouds, memories, poems, poetry, the wind

I often seek the wisdom, that I’m looking for, in the clouds which form, high in the sky above.

Fiction Poetry Short Story

Autumn Lane

September 17, 2016September 18, 2016 Phyllis Doyle Burns 3504 Views 14 Comments autumn lane, empty house, fiction, memories, poem, you left

Autumn Lane … In early morning I walk down the lane As sun kisses golden leaves on the trees. Crisp

Memoir

Once There Was Camelot

September 13, 2016September 13, 2016 Rasma Raisters 2861 Views 10 Comments camelot, memories, poems, poetry

In many days and years gone by, there once was Camelot. Just two people madly in love, trying to