Pixie within the pinkPixie within the pink
let me swirl your tyranny into the high-octaved melody of my earliest endurance
Right as the clock ticked to six, the creaking sound of my mother’s war cry made me bury myself under the blankets.
Laying on the pretty quilted baby pink sheets as the pillow moulded to my head’s shape, opening my soul’s...
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Categories:
nostalgia, 10th grade, children, color,
Form: Lyric
UntitledIts breaking....
Under sea.
Underneath,
I lost all feeling,
Do fish not feel
the rod piercing?
Sometimes
I was too
Vulnerable
breakable
fragile
young
small
tiny,
me.
I'm getting tired
I'm too weary
to surface.
Resilience,
is not a word
but a death
sentence
of irony plates
I breathe in.
Hey,
do you wish
to see
the worse
in me,
the abyss
snaps
the frame,
Inner child...
its frozen eye...
I still feel,
morning train,
a rush through,
what couldn't
who wouldn't
save me.
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Categories:
abuse, children, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Plus Ca ChangeSong: "Yesterday", The Beatles
Yesterday I had lots of fun with Sugar Ray,
Now the neighbors yell out words like ‘gay’.
Oh I believe in yesterday.
...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Lyric
Dance with me
Life might have taken away my ability to dance
But it didn't take out my rhythm
That's why even on my chair
I'm all groovy and fully turned up
I might not hold your hand and spin you around
But I can buy you lovely dresses
So that as you pirouette
It rolls around you like the cupcake you are
I might...
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Categories:
nostalgia, appreciation, art, beauty, love,
Form: Free verse
Class ReunionSix besties had agreed
at graduation,
pinky swore,
to meet ten years later
no matter where they'd be,
come what may.
And here they were finally:
Gayle, Suzie, Diane, Donna, Lucy, Michelle,
together at last from across the country.
They had kept in touch through facebook
as much as their busy schedules allowed.
All had gone off to university or college.
Some had since married, some had...
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Categories:
friendship, life, nostalgia, time,
Form: Free verse
Feeling Nostalgicwhen summer was
a caterpillar
moving at a crawl,
it became the butterfly
brightest of all...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Other
dancing in the rain
pelting the sidewalk
streams of gentling rain
music who will stalk
dancing through the pain
floods roll as we rock
...
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Categories:
nostalgia, appreciation, dance, happy, inspiration,
Form: Other
Of Bygone Era Weeping willows of
past twilight inkling
cast a blurred shadow
on “lily-white age”
viewed through clouded lens!...
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Categories:
nostalgia, age, innocence, introspection, memory,
Form: Other
Sing Along With Summer
Summer stares, graceful
as the quiet chirps
birdsong, let’s sing along…
joy unfolding, on wings
listening for His voice
in the heart, the soul, anyplace
growing old, while the summer
restores the heart, the soul
breaking out in sweats of golden
sunlight, bursting from the heat
melodies so sweet…
gently playing against the ache
of a silent knowing,
His love unfolding, like a distant
star, reflecting all...
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Categories:
joy, muse, music, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Feeling Nostalgic
I will turn the page,
to a place of peace,
a street of hued trees,
ending with a pond,
of gliding white swans....
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Other
Categories:
nostalgia, life, light, love, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
Feeling Nostalgic
love rings in still rooms,
scent of long-lost blooms.
song drifts from the past,
soft stares that don't last—
rise as gone perfumes.
Contest Title: WHAT THE WORLD LOVES Poetry Contest
Sponsor's Name: Nette Onclaud
Date Written: June 25, 2025...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Other
Heart By The LakeLife is a rollercoaster of emotions
Once you are happy,
In a blink you're sad:
Or in a glimpse of a rage memory,
you'll feel at lost,
regretful of the past.
Our mind's a spring of feelings,
it's up to you
how you react.
Forgive yourself
Is one wise act.
Forgive others
Is a perfect path.
Your real self
Is in a nutshell.
You can...
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Categories:
nostalgia, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
Stopping on the Old North Bridgeafter “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, by Robert Frost
This bridge meant something in some war,
some yarn of man and God and law:
but I think more of her and me:
what were those others fighting for?
There’s so much here to feel and see,
and yet it’s rubbernecker-free!
I love to watch the fishes jump:
they sense the serendipity!
Lads...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Verse
French films of your youthone look full of longing later
in the glow of electric lips
a brush with the unknown...
those were the French films of your youth
your concomitant struggles for love
rambling through the summer heat
gliding in the seaside breeze
down in the deep dead blue
to yearn, to be strangely stranded
among the widowed twin tides
in your sleepy demeanour
still craving your only...
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Categories:
nostalgia, longing, memory, surreal, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Nostalgia Poems
Definition | What is Nostalgia in Poetry?
Poems Related to Nostalgia
longing, sentimentality, remorse, yearning, homesickness, reminiscence, schmaltz, wistfulness, pining, fond memories, hearts and flowers, tear jerker,