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Nostalgia Poems | Examples of Nostalgia Poetry

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.
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: nostalgia, education, food, fun, humorous,
Form: Narrative



Tainted Travel
Time and mind unravel A maze of rose tainted gravel Whispers life’s secrets...Read the rest...
Categories: nostalgia, growing up, introspection, life,
Form: Senryu
Gain and Loss
Memories mounting Losing sight losing faith Positive heartbreak ...Read the rest...
Categories: nostalgia, growth, heartbreak, i miss
Form: Senryu
WaterFall
Splices 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’...Read the rest...
Categories: nostalgia, cool, encouraging, heaven, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ephemera poem
Quote:"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...Read the rest...
Categories: nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Some say love at first sight can’t be. But, in your...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, love, nostalgia, passion,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: nostalgia, absence, farm, identity, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: family, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Felix the Wonderful Cat
Theme 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...Read the rest...
Categories: nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I want to be Top Cat
When 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...Read the rest...
Categories: nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jetsons Were Ahead of their Time
Jetson’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...Read the rest...
Categories: nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: nostalgia, autumn, dad, memory, mother,
Form: Free verse
Yesterday
Looking 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. ...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, dark, future, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: father daughter, forgiveness, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

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