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I carried my heart far from home on a quest
for love. Feeling like a well gone dry, I yearned
to fill an emptiness and rambled to find rest.
I sought solace in strangers, all my love spurned.

For years, I searched faces and hopeless city
streets, lonely sidewalks rolling out before me.
After wasted time far behind and miles roamed, 
I learned my heart ached for who waited back home.

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Sandra Haight

Date: 5/26/2015 1:31:00 PM

Rhonda, stopping back to read your poem again and congratulate your for your outstanding win! Hugs, Sandra

Sara Kendrick

Date: 5/26/2015 1:20:00 PM

This winner reaches deep..Congrats..Way to go..Sara

Lewis Nyaga

Date: 5/23/2015 2:27:00 AM

This a great piece Congrats for the win

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 5/23/2015 1:19:00 AM

RHONDA, Nice win...... LINDA

Skat A

Date: 5/20/2015 7:01:00 PM

This was nice Rhonda, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WIN. Enjoyed your Home Sweet Home Entry. Thank you for supporting my contest. ~~SKAT LOVE~~

Sandra Haight

Date: 1/30/2015 2:58:00 PM

Wonderful words about how important home is to us, Rhonda. Such nice sentiments and beautifully written. Hugs, Sandra

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 1/29/2015 1:52:00 PM

ah, yes, home sweet home. WE can travel the earth, but in the end, we will long for that home of our childhood. At least I one who does! You did a sophisticated construction of this form, Rhonda! Love its sentiment.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 1/29/2015 1:50:00 PM

first I had to come tell you. KFC is NOT my idea of heaven. Though I do enjoy their fried chicken breasts!! that was just an old sonnet I thought I would dig up for the humor contest. Now let me see your latest post!!

Olive Eloisa Guillermo - Fraser

Date: 1/29/2015 7:56:00 AM

a pleasure to read this heartfelt poem RHonda. :) i love the last lines of both stanzas!!! I never tried rispetto.. :) and i like how you did it here.. :) perhaps I could write one... :) by the way you inspired me before to write an enclosed rhyme.. :)! --olive eloisa.. :)! thanks much!!!! hugs tight and warm! God bless!