Best Homecoming Poems

It was in late October in the year nineteen seventy three
That the war in South Vietnam was finally over for me
I boarded the seven o seven and couldn't wait to get going
A non military plane, a bright blue and white coloured Boeing.

After a long flight...

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Something's changed, I don't recall this door.
The mat that once read 'welcome'...now gone. 
Am I lost in the night, or had I forgotten some slight..
had my address been quelled by another time?

The new curtains in the bay window seem nice,
though..not the deep blue highlighted sash...

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Once a year we have Homecoming
At our church and we celebrate
With relatives, friends, and neighbors,
Whom we have not seen of late!

What joy just sitting together
Singing the songs of long ago,
Worshipping God and praising Him-
The one from whom all blessings flow!

O, the beauty of tables laden
With...

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Harvest Homecoming
fair brings contests and prizes
my biggest pumpkin 

prize matters a lot
one hundred sixty-two pounds
tow trucks don't come cheap
 

written 09/24/16...

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River flows.... Musk filled air.... Homecoming

Ellip Contest
© 2-11-2013...

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Summer storm flooding

in city cemetery,

bodies on the move.



Author's Note:  Some readers were confused over the last line. So I changed the title and the last line to make the Haiku more clear. Originally it ;was (bodies by a box) And the title was (Mail...

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Through cloudless skies of azure over land of pastel hue.
bringing forth my heart to flutter and my speech again ‘true blue’.
So pleased to touch my land again when stepping off the plane,
and better still the old hometown, alighting from the train.

There’s old familiar childhood that...

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Homecoming,
Its Fun,
Flashy,
And Sad....

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On the sixth day of the waxing moon
In the sixth month*, there is a boon
Mother Durga comes to her father’s home
On top of the Himalayan dome  
   
She is the epitome of womanhood
The defender of everything good
An embodiment of positive energy
An inner...

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when I came back home
nineteen-eighty-six
Mom says not normal
making niece so scared
even my best friend
said I was bad
making me sad
now times have changed
new family
with new friends
and new trends
now I write
poems
latest
trend...

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The flood waters lapped all around
Leaving not very much dry ground
So we all rowed home
And got The Road Home
Raising our houses up off the ground...

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Our  house is abuzz
With Me, Bella and Jess 
And Mummy is all delight
“Dad’s coming home tonight! “

The Cake has been made
The table has been laid 
Candles are alight
Dad will be home tonight!

Mum’s wearing polka dots
Dress, Dad had bought
She looks pretty, so bright!
Dad will be...

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As birds do in the serenity and majesty of sunset skies,
Some lose their inherent passion to roam.
So, we danced amid candlelight and the fireflies;
We did so when Harry came home.

His European adventure at an end,
After searching, after seeking hither and yon,
World traveler with a homeward...

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Summer was lush when Harry came home;
And birds sang among southern trees.
Here at last, and no more to roam,
So, we danced in bloom fragrancies!

When Harry came home, days were lazy;
And all sultry were the nights!
When Harry came, fields of daisies;
And butterflies on vivid flights!

When Harry...

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tangerine horizon, tantalizing senses,
                                      trilling homecoming birds...
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