Best Homeward Poems

Homeward Bound

I didn’t know, for it didn’t show for so many years.
The slowing steps, the memory gaps
The creeping years gone by.
Then one day, it came my way
The mirror doesn’t lie
It’s that woman whose wrinkles keep coming
Asking where and when, and why.
Memories fade, eyes become glazed
Only...

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Her journey begins.
Moving through soft veils and mists,
Pilgrimage homeward....

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PLEASE LISTEN TO THE MUSIC WHILST READING THE POEM

http://sonichits.com/video/homeward_bound/William_Joseph

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I‘d have climbed the highest mountain
I’d have swum the deepest sea
Just to see your face my darling
This was just a dream for me


How the years they have flown by
Since you left my heart...

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Canadian geese
shadows in southern sunset
winter vacation

Jan Allison
13th September 2015...

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To the tune of Simon And Garfunkel's "Homeward Bound"
for the music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs_YQ6JuNpA

When I asked you to the County Fair
You had just rolled your eyes and twirled your hair
Got down on one knee to plead
Come with me, baby, pretty please
We'll have a ball, I'm begging you
I...

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So cold is winters worry
Trepidation of the fury
Below zero trudging slurry 
Walking the cold last mile

Dodging bears and trailing wolves
Through the forest of the woods
Take my hand that you should
Walking the cold last mile 

We made it to the house with fire
Settle down, cosy smiles
If...

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When I'm weary, and forsaken               
when I'm worn and feeling down                    ...

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Through the valley, I walk steadfast
with the Lord's hand holding mine,
and He guides me and He saves me
when my path, I cannot find.

With the love
of my Father,
I can face each new day.
With His grace,
I’m lifted higher,
as He parts my skies of gray.  

In the...

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For Craig's contest   Music by Marta Keen
 
       By Your Side

INTRO 

I know you think, I've gone and left you
Leaving tears to fill your eyes
I would never leave you darling
For you and I, there's no goodbyes
There's a...

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In the land where ancient curses lie.
I could seek my Home above the sky.

I could ask these questions, meant for me:
Why does lonesome fear enslave the free?

Why would I traverse my lonely path,
When the trail incites such fearful wrath?

When all this time I knew the...

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The surf, ferocious in the distance
white caps and roller coaster waves
nose-dives into the shore
sand rearranged; sea life takes cover-
the hermit crab –boroughs;
the gulls greedy, hungry - grab
remnants of human litter- their meal for the day-
and flee.

Homeward bound.

Rain-
torrents  or drizzle feed flora, fauna, man
all given...

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HOMEWARD BOUND

DR. JAMES E. MARTIN 
July 13, 2006
Based on the story of the prodigal son



After being gone for several years, 
He returned home amidst many tears.
He had thought so many years ago
That he would to others his independence show.

Thinking that at home it had been...

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seagulls surf the wind
my escort home 
across the waves...

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The runic pattern cast upon the ground, 
That calls wandering Celt to journey home,
To sacred lands where mighty kings were crowned,
And there hearts dwell while the feet may roam,
Ancient songs of Mystery once more found.

O Celt, now sing the song within your heart,
And love the...

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The only communion I want to make these days
Is with the trees, the grass, the flowers, the sky.
Having traveled the River Styx for many a year--
Having been an actor in a Greek tragedy
Set in the wrong century--
I ask, in what literary genre
Am I to participate...

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