Nostalgia Poems - Examples of all types of nostalgia poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Two is for TangoMe and the dance floor don't really get along, but she made me want to tango
So, against my introverted instincts I approached her with half a cup of confidence and the other half nerves
Only...
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Categories:
nostalgia, anxiety, dance, memory, missing
Form: Blank verse
The Old Rotary*PV - Proverbial Verbiage
The Old Rotary
Dialing out…zzzzip…zzzzzzzip…zzzzzzzip
and
zip…zzip…zzzip…zzzzip
and brring…
long distance was not a thing
for children. they could only
ring those within their corridor
ching…ching
money didn’t grow on trees
the grown up made sure
we were wise
or they’d wise up
our behinds
but...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Light Verse
Child's PlayLet life trickle out,
the hour,
I want to play,
the great pretender,
one last time,
before I have to hail Mary,
to bring back the day,
and say,
how silly we've been.
...
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Categories:
nostalgia, anxiety, child, childhood, introspection,
Form: Free verse
There'll always be a little TexasIt's more than twenty years since I left Texas.
I've settled down, no longer roam,
And now I call Missouri home.
I'm happy here for many reasons…
The lifestyle, people, all four seasons…
And as the years go by,
I must...
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Categories:
introspection, nostalgia,
Form: Verse
SugarSugar
A cup of sugar
borrowed from a neighbor...
One that I have never met before.
Will they even answer the door?
What should I say?
In that single open possibility...
that one chance...
that first breath
that we will...
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Categories:
nostalgia, angel, appreciation, inspiration, inspirational
Form: Free verse
A Poet's Heartfelt Ode To ItalyA Poet's heartfelt ode to Italy
is the murmur of the calmest sea
heard at the close of a long day;
anchored boats in the bay of Amalfi
await sunset and nobody has a plea
to escape danger, so nostalgic...
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Categories:
nostalgia, beauty, emotions, joy, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Cold Case: A Missing Hour of Afternoon
I step out from a second-story window,
float along roads of slow-churning lullabies,
raptured in response to ice cream truck’s bellow.
A clear case of cold sugar—wide gumball eyes,
mobile memories wrapped in coats of corn-snow
hugged around a wood...
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Categories:
extended metaphor, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Ottava rima
The Image of Him
The Mother Sun no longer embraced me
No more adrenaline rush that motivates me to get up
Breakfast seems bland, faded colors of rotten apple
Unfurled window curtains is the angle that I see
Unheard thoughts of forks lying...
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Categories:
nostalgia, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
WindedI’m sitting on my lawn chair
Outside the night is cool
I hear the trees swaying
The breeze chills my skin
It knocks on my hippocampus
Am I here or where it blows?
Breeze, you are timeless
From queens to...
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Categories:
childhood, night, nostalgia, star,
Form: Free verse
Watch me while I WriteHow lucky I feel to live for real,
melancholia that is hard to reveal
imagine.scribble. gives me chill
Live in austerity, an innocuous thrill
How lovely I feel to have this pen in my hand
you wanna look inside...
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Categories:
adventure, creation, nostalgia, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Smokey Filled Speak Easy
In the dim-lit alley of the soul's bazaar,
Were jazz and jive spill from ajar,
We tap our feet, snap fingers, under stars,
And speak in verses, raw and without pause.
The city breathes, a living, pulsing beat,
Its heart...
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Categories:
nostalgia, 6th grade, anxiety, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Face in the CrowdFor a moment I imagined
seeing your face in the crowd,
Smiling, as if it were expecting
To see me, and as the joy
Of a lifetime of love cascaded
Through my being I wanted to shout:
“Here...
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Categories:
imagination, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
On ye olde 'Nostalgia Show'
Where’s Waldo, Pokemon Go ~
with Cabbage Patch on ye olde ‘Nostalgia Show’
...
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Categories:
humor, moving on, nostalgia,
Form: Couplet
Rendezvous on Rainbow BridgeIn days of sorrow,
Showering you with kisses
Was a bridge
To a tranquil tomorrow.
Through nights so long and deep,
Embracing you brought forth
A dawn of hope,
Like feeling of sunlight
After an...
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Categories:
nostalgia, animal, dark, death, i
Form: Free verse
TV Shows back in the SixtiesIn most of the movies back in the day.,.
women of the sixties wore glasses, so they could be smart
Women without glasses were thought to have empty non-thinking heads
In the sixties TV shows, all librarians wore...
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Categories:
nostalgia, women,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Nostalgia Poems
Definition | What is Nostalgia in Poetry?
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