#remembrance poems on Hello Poetry

Manauwer Raza Jul 2018

Remembrance, a story of trying to put things together
Where the best moments drifts through floating
While I look at my hands and spaces between my fingers...

The sparks of life would make all those darkness fade
Bring light of hopes and wishes to come true
The marks of which are now completely erased...

But these are the memories I already know
Which need no luxury, no expression to show
It's all about the disappointment of just letting go...

It's based on something that can't be saved
All blatant lies, the falsity, the blame
For things have changed and they can't stay the same...

Sometimes I wonder if you're even here
For my mind refrain to speak your name
And the picture I see seems so unclear...

So, I'll just say what needs to be said
The fights are fought and the elegies are read
But for remembrance of you, my memories are all numb and dead...
@manauwer

#remembrance #life #hurtcomfort #memories

Sarah Jun 2018

Childhood.

I can’t remember every detail but within the darker memories-
I see happiness.
Each gray, childhood faded image brightens when I recall the love that swarmed that house.
It was a time before I feared,
Before we grieved,
Before life overtook each conversation.
Instead, every face held a welcoming smile,
Laughter was sung with each breath,
Life was nothing but the one I shared with those four people within those walls.
Those four people made those four walls, wrapping around us like an embrace,
a home.

Written 06/27/2018

#sad #home #love #childhood #children #family #house #remembrance #happiness #poetry

Brandon Conway Jun 2018

Specter

You left years ago,
                                the bed still unmade
You left years ago,
                                the bills still unpaid
You left years ago,
                                the message I still play
You left years ago,
                                the beauty I still gaze
You left years ago,
                                the child I still raise

#specter #relationship #remembrance #haunting #thoughts #years #dead #divorce

Brandon Conway Jun 2018

Necromancy

Tonight we raised the dead
In the morning buried it
Under the pillow of your bed
Never to be resurrected again

#necromancy #raise #bury #pillow #bed #resurrected #lust #remembrance

Brandon Conway Jun 2018

ἀμφορεύς

if I could                     forever                  be turned to
      art                              immortalize                                me in
   ceramic.                                my story                                       have it
  submerged                      at the bottom                          of the sea.
    forever                       eroding                            waiting
to be discovered and studied. Forever capturing the minds
of the historians the poets the dreamers and the ones
filled with curiosity. Have my painted life chipped
away shielded by salt and grime. Leave them
questioning and wondering filling in
the missing specks of my life.
Let them display me on
a pedestal left
to inspire.

Formatting on this one breaks on a small mobile screen

#greek #amphora #vase #story #inspire #time #poet #remember #remembrance #concrete

Tribhu Jun 2018

Oh, Soul

Oh soul! You see, I’ve set you free,
Shall you fly far away?
Or die remembering me?
Remained thee in my heart,
Winter sky falls apart,
Yet midnight to dawn,
Memories dusted throughout desert.

Often we have to let go of certain people we want to hold so close to us, to our hearts. But we have to let them go even so. It's their choice if they ever remember us or not. And it's our choice to remember them through the dusty memories they've left behind...

#memories #heartbreak #sadness #love #remembrance

Melissa S Jun 2018

In the Cause For the Free

I watch as an older woman in a red flowery
dress holding yellow flowers looks out to the sea
Searching for the young man she fell
in love with at the ripe age of twenty three
He gave his life that day on the Normandy shore
on the sixth of June the year was forty-four
Every year this woman comes to the sea to remember
For when she said her marriage vows
she meant them to last to the end of her forever
She throws the yellow flowers out to the sea
Always grateful for the love they shared
and proud that he fell in the cause for the free

Remembering the 74th anniversary of D-Day

#remembrance #memorial

TCross Jun 2018

Remembering You Dad

When I look in the mirror gazing at my reflection
I will always think of you Dad.
I will remember all the people whose hearts you touched and your departure that made us sad.
You were my Dad first, my bestman, my bestfriend
and my first example of a family man.
There were so many things that shouldve crossed your mind
but your families well being was your plan.

I have so many fond memories and thoughts including you
that came rushing through my head,
such memories would break a weaker man
but your strength helps me to look ahead.
I will miss our talks and laughs and I know the cookouts will not be the same,
but I will carry on the tradition in honor of carrying on your name.
So when that dreadful day will come however long it be,
your hard work ethics, family devotion and love for helping others my family will see in me.

#dad #remembrance #missingyou #memories

Louisa Coller May 2018

My Dearest Aunt

My dearest aunt,

I shall greatly miss you in physical form,
but I know you'll always be here in my family and I's hearts.

Susan is a beautiful woman, through looks and personality.
When I was young until this day, I could always rely on her.

I still fondly remember the days we would bake, joke and eventually drag my Mother into baking at night.

My aunt will always be in our family's hearts.

This is more or less, a written piece, for my aunt who passed away a few weeks ago, yesterday (17th of May) was her funeral. I was absolutely devastated, but I had the opportunity to stand up and talk about her.

When I did, I started crying and admittedly, my entire family felt the emotion in my voice.

#family #remembrance #death #funeral #sad