Letting Go of YesterdayLaying in a hammock
Swaying back and forth
Reminiscing long gone fun
Remembering what was done.
Sitting on a swing
Poised above the ground
In your eyes are tears
About all the lost years.
You can't fix the past
But you can do this:
Loathe? I don't think so
Forgive your ex: let go!...
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Categories:
nostalgia, lost love, moving on,
Form: Rhyme
How Quaint
Ring the bell-hop, how quaint
Dial the Operator? – Translate! …
Western Union’s clickety-clack, now faint
alongside the sensory lure of wet paint
All of these ~ today, ain’t
...
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Categories:
nostalgia, history, loss, moving on,
Form: Monorhyme
Saturday morning RoutinesSaturday Morning Routines**
The familiar smell of wood smoke slowly filled my bedroom, wrapping around me like a comforting blanket. Through my window, I caught sight of the warm, flickering lights from the flambeau, casting dancing shadows on the walls. It was in that moment that I knew it was time to leave the warmth of...
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Categories:
nostalgia, allusion, care, missing you,
Form: Narrative
Trashcans
Mentally we rummage through
Our trashcans of the past
Viewing what was worthless
When in that trash were cast:
A milestone magazine we see in there
Worth thousands in “green backs” now
Oh my, if we had known
The things that we now avow.
Mountains of words we wished we’d said
Lying in a dusty, useless heap
Applicable now that time has passed
But … didn’t...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Scrapbook
Fingers
turn yesterday—
paper sighs low,
pressed petals, crooked keys,
laughter fading into hush
slowly.
Vignette...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Verse
PosterityPOSTERITY©
Long ago and far away
We never thought we’d reach today
Living long we never dreamed
Could ever be as we had deemed
But here we stand hand-in-hand
It’s nothing like we might have planned
Back then we’d not conceived
Things of today could be believed.
Tomorrow brings more wonderment
Things of which we have no hint
Sadly we won’t be allowed
To have our minds...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Listening To PatsyMemories
of Formica
kitchens
And 2-burner
Hotpoint
stoves
Lipstick on
a menthol
butt
Costume
pearls
in rows
Perfume
from the
five and dime
Drive In’s
on the
field
A promise
made
a promise kept
And
love
— that time can’t steal
(Listening To Patsy Cline: July 4th, 2025)
...
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Categories:
love, nostalgia, time,
Form: Rhyme
Gray Orphans and Ancient FlintMany paths lead away from home
but only one leads back
as the years sit salted upon the rack
you find the path home has narrowed and
turned from gates of iridescence
to mirrors opaque and black-
you arrive with exhaustion on your boots
a feast of favorites on a favorite plate
go upstairs to your yellow crib
have those unreachable dreams again\
things...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
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
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,