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
short, long, best, and famous poem examples for nostalgia.
Too Stoned to Care, circa 1969
Too stoned to care
wild eyes and hair
My friend and I dare
to order four pizzas
Where are your...
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Categories:
nostalgia, education, food, fun, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Tainted TravelTime and mind unravel
A maze of rose tainted gravel
Whispers life’s secrets...
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Categories:
nostalgia, growing up, introspection, life,
Form: Senryu
Gain and LossMemories mounting
Losing sight losing faith
Positive heartbreak
...
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Categories:
nostalgia, growth, heartbreak, i miss
Form: Senryu
WaterFallSplices and splashes in the spring of daylight,
sprinkle of treacle tranquillises mind sweet.
Don’t get me wrong even the greenery is key,
gentle is sound stream has bought me full ease
Rest assured… sunshine gleaming over ‘MY’...
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Categories:
nostalgia, cool, encouraging, heaven, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Ephemera poemQuote:"True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories."--
Florence King
In the quiet folds of memory's embrace,
Where whispers of the past find their place,
There lies a fragment, ephemeral, yet profound,
A cherished relic in...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
First Sight Ephemera
You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again. - Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
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Some say love at first sight can’t be.
But, in your...
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Categories:
appreciation, love, nostalgia, passion,
Form: Quatern
roaming into the past - Ephemera
I like roaming thrift stores
full of worthless things
lost treasures that I can hold
within my hands and mind
capturing a time gone
for a pretty hand painted cup
a collectible or a relic from the past
I love the old...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Abandoned Farm in Northern Victoria
For decades, motor cars
have driven past in haste,
eyes not straying far
from the highway to where,
set back and obscured
by scrub,
an abandoned farm
is slowly succumbing to rot.
I catch a glimpse
of an old cart out front
and stop.
Nothing moves...
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Categories:
nostalgia, absence, farm, identity, loss,
Form: Free verse
To which image should we cling?Trailing clouds of glory do we come
The magical moments of childhood
When we felt at one with the universe
Spinning dizzily with delight
Or with more of horrible and awful
That even to name is sorrowful
Bound helplessly with flu...
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Categories:
family, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Felix the Wonderful CatTheme song to Felix the cat went like this in the sixties.
Felix the cat
The wonderful wonderful cat
Whenever he is in a fix,
He’ll get into his magic tricks!
There is more. You can look the other words...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
I want to be Top CatWhen I grow up I want to be a mommy Lucy said.
I want to be a TV salesman said our classmate Ed
I want to be TOP CAT, I told them, in absolute glee
He was the...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Jetsons Were Ahead of their TimeJetson’s TV show was out of sight
We could barely wait to see it on Saturday night
No wait, it was in the morning, well anyway
This high-tech family really made our day
They showed face time before it...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Mushroom Picking
In the cool of an autumn morning
my father and his friend,
Jimmy Kerin, would go
mushroom picking in paddocks
way out past the last suburban fence.
I would tag along not to pick
but feel the freedom of...
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Categories:
nostalgia, autumn, dad, memory, mother,
Form: Free verse
YesterdayLooking at the past,
Thinking of what I thought will last.
Thinking of what happened before.,
Knowing that the future will be a bore.
I sincerely hope and pray,
That my tomorrow is better than yesterday.
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Categories:
anxiety, dark, future, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
To Which Image Should We Cling
Nostalgia, my sometimes-friend, an unwavering realist,
visits from time to time with a flood of memories
centering around the polar opposites that were~~Daddy.
This daughter's mind's eye clearly sees
the tired man who would...
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Categories:
father daughter, forgiveness, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Nostalgia Poems
Definition | What is Nostalgia in Poetry?
Poems Related to Nostalgia
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