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Best Homesick Poems

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Premium Member Homesick Heart
 Love is the water of life. Drink it down with heart and soul. - Rumi  

I remember the nights I swiftly swerved oceanic...

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Categories: homesick, deep,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member Homesick
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Homesick, we’ve all been there;
Home embodies a sense of belonging.
Having family and friends in one place
Helps make home happen.  However,
Houses, schools, churches, stores, people...

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Categories: homesick, home, introspection,
Form: Pleiades
Homesick
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I want to be alone where skylarks sing
Where primroses grow wild and bluebells ring
Where sweet the fragrant scent of Mountain thyme
Back in the glen that...

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Categories: homesick, nostalgia
Form: Sonnet
Homesick
The hymns of my youth have become a faint sound,
like a train in the distance lost to the night.
This road that I'm on is not...

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Categories: homesick, father, home, lost, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - You Know What I Mean When I Say Homesick -
A child is born
  a little life it's a miracle
  Death is nothing to fear
  but feels like
  autumn leaves on...

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Categories: homesick, emotions, family, home, love,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Dreams of India
Dreams of India

Her music haunts me
in such a knowing way
it makes me weep
and causes my heart to ache.

I become homesick for her
scents, her sounds, her...

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Categories: homesick, beauty, culture, desire, dream,
Form: Free verse
Paper Boats
(Dedicated to one of my childhood friends)

You were one of those charming lilies
that bloomed, so fresh, in my springtime pond;
when my homesick wings of longings...

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Categories: homesick, childhood, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sometimes You
I went back to the farm seeking Maggie, only to find that she had gone.
Searching for shelter from the storm.
Another sad eyed lady, laid low,...

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Categories: homesick, art, friendship, heart, memorial
Form: Verse
Mood Swing Happens
Hello midnight hour 
It is I again
I’ve come to you in restless mood 
I’m not tired 
Nor am I sleepy
But here I be 
In sleepless...

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© Fin Chuuk  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: homesick, emotions, silence, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bio Modified: Romantic Realist
Romantic
teacher, writer, fitness enthusiast and self-proclaimed movie critic
who loves family, friends, and food,
I play with words, explore interesting/controversial topics and celebrate life;
feel grounded in my...

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Categories: homesick, character,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Break the Mirror
From time immemorial, 
Man has been on an audacious quest,
To unravel the mysteries of life!

Like a mirror that sends back the rays, 
Falling on it,...

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Categories: homesick, allegory, death, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Birch
Sycamores certainly speak French, cypresses - ancient Greek, the Old Testament's olives are bilingual: they speak Hebrew and Aramaic. Birch is a Russian tree though...

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Categories: homesick, nature,
Form: Haibun
A Captive Heart
I pray to my Lord in Heaven,
To make a way for my return!
I yearn to hear the sounds of home;
The buffalo raging by,
The softness of...

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Categories: homesick, depression, nostalgia
Form: Free verse
My Visit To Nirmal Hriday
Perhaps from my childhood, it had been my burning desire,
To glance Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) - a home I did admire;
At the thought of Kolkotta...

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Categories: homesick, caregiving, dedication, happiness, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Culture Clash
I was a college music teacher, engaged in pitch, tempo, rhythm and melody,
As lavish planets dance around a golden star, with the zeal of fuchsia...

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Categories: homesick, beauty, dance, fantasy, fun,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things