#reminiscing poems on Hello Poetry

Abraham Avalos Aug 2018

As I walk along the beach, leaving footprints in the sand
Reminiscing of old times, u & I both use to have
Night strolls along the beach with the moonlight as our guide
Conversations deep as seas that would stimulate our minds
Just two lovers in the night with hands that intertwined
Every step remained unplanned just like the blanket in the sand
Gazing up at stars above
As I bring u closer into my arms
Stare at your eyes like u do to me as I place my hand right on your cheek
Close my eyes & closely lean
As our lips touch
Like the sky & sea

-Abraham Avalos

#reminiscing #love

Abraham Avalos Aug 2018

Warm Memory

Let us end the days adventures by gathering around the flame
Sit & laugh about the places we have ventured while we enjoy the time & place
For this will be our time capsule of memories made when we unite
A simple cherished moment never to go frozen all throughout our life

- Abraham Avalos

#thegoodtimes #reminiscing

soph Aug 2018

Incomplete

I flip through the pages of old school notebooks
Just to see what can be saved
Memories come flooding back
From my last taste of normal teenage life
Quizzes, vocabulary, homework
The work becomes more and more scarce as I move through time
Absent
Absent
Present
Absent
Until I run out of pages
An empty entry for February 14
And no new entries after that
I long for the normalcy again
When I had the strength for everyday life
I never thought I’d miss the real high school experience
But looking back
Something in me feels incomplete
Just like that empty entry
February 14

February 14th was unexpectedly my last day of public school due to my health conditions. It’s weirdly sentimental to look back and see my public school life slowly come to an end as I missed more and more school. Since when do I type with proper grammar in the notes section of my poems? Here’s a key smash to make this more like me dhdhsjsj

#incomplete #school #sentimental #reminiscing #illness

nosipho khanyile Jul 2018

I'm losing you

your own life was at the edge of chaos
when you centered me

everybody had deserted you
when you were there for me

you could barely stand on you own
when you stood up for me

all you wanted was to be loved
when you gave me love

you were selfless
and I was selfish

I've already lost you
but I hope this sorry finds you.

this one's to two of my friends. after doing some introspection, I've kind of found myself, made good friendships and I'm seeing life in a good light but in hindsight I realise that I've abandoned some good friends in the process. I'm scared to go back and find them because I don't know if I'll ever stop being self absorbed.

#sorry #selfish #reminiscing #pain #friendship #truelove

Emily McCracken-Iverson Jul 2018

Reminisce

At 11:46 PM I told you I loved you too
It was Thursday on June 28th of 2018
You declared you didn’t want to say it over text yet we did
I promised you as soon as I could see you I would tell you in person
That day couldn’t come soon enough

#love #relationship #reminiscing

Camellia-Japonica Jul 2018

Watercolours

I lose myself in memories past
Watch scenes on a loop
Run these memories through filters so that
Brighter, softer, more muted hues speckle the reminiscing
Harsh lines now resemble an impressionist painting
Harsh words now a poets tongue become
Harsh actions a noble deed to overcome a harsher pain.
Harsh words fall soft from the tongue
Diluted memories in ombré hue
Gradually blending and shading
Until only an impression of a memory remains.

© JLB
10/07/2018
03:42 BST

#memory #past #reminiscing #truth #lie

Ndolo Jun 2018

Chasing the Moon

Tracing daybreak by the fingertips,

each shade of the sun trying to burn through me,

leaving behind my silhouette,

leaving behind a memory,

reminiscing days long past,

chasing the moon

#reminiscing #nostalgia

Aric garza Jun 2018

Read it on a fortune cookie

Knowing then what I know now, would never have been fun.

“Life is a just a series of choices. Today yours are good ones.”

Where was this fortune cookie when I made all those seemingly bad decisions?

The girl with the cigarettes,
The girl from the internet,
The girl that I let get away.

Knowing then what I know now would never have been fun.

I would have never learned my lessons, not a single one.

I think of “bad relationships” as more of a self discovery of sorts.
I took away from those relationships some useful knowledge about my self. I can say it’s helped a lot.

#past #love #self #discovery #reminiscing

Josephine Zecena Jun 2018

Red Wine and Moonlight

Love me
Take me
I’m nothing more than a bag of hollow bones until you speak life into me
You
Your name
Breathes and lives in and throughout me
Not a day goes by when I don’t think your name
It’s like knowing my own
My heart is characterized by you
It is you
It knows no other response but to your name
Hearing it, it leaps like my mother demanding me forward
I wish I didn’t have to learn this way
I wish it so different
I wish you by my side
You and I
Your lips on my neck
Your hand on my thigh

Only sandy shores and sunsets can temporarily fulfill what you gave me
All the love
The security
The Laughs

I wish so much
But in all, I wish you happiness
For what more can my heart deserve?

I wish I could take it all back. I wish I was with you.

#heartache #regret #love #melancholy #breakup #missing #reminiscing