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Best Nostalgic Poems

Below are the all-time best Nostalgic poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of nostalgic poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nostalgic, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Passion In Black and White - POTD - Erotic Verse
POTD 7th Mar 2018

I trust you like the music video clip which enhances the poem

Like dark molten honey caressing her tongue
and soul food for taste...

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Categories: nostalgic, romantic, sensual, sexy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member House On Memory Lane
Feeling nostalgic, I went back home
To a house on Memory Lane
A sentimental trip, through the years that have flown
To a three bedroom, small white, wood...

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Categories: nostalgic, memory, sad,
Form: Rhyme
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: nostalgic, childhood, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To Mum
Brown paper memories she puts in my hands
Twine roughly tied in a bow slightly askew
Part and parcel of a humble life once led?
My defiant eyes...

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Categories: nostalgic, inspirational love, love, mum,
Form: Ode



Premium Member Mamma Still Calls Your Name
It was like the sun did not rise
and mourning birds sang 
no morning melody.

The heavens were so grey,
pouring like Noah's floods,
preparing me for the storm,
which...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nostalgic, death, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unconquerable
midst the bosom of a once bountiful farm
lies the graveyard of my ancestors~
the gush of tears that flowed here- only the wind knows;
the willows by...

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© Jcb Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nostalgic, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Clementine Duet
When tuscan tunes of twilight,
cascade as clementine confetti, 
She searches for secret silhouettes,
swirling to the symphony 
of sunflower serenades.

In the midst of faded fields,
marigold memories...

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Categories: nostalgic, earth, emotions, moon, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As I Watch the Waves Crash
From precipice of memories, flashbacks nostalgic billow,
Thinking of you as I ruminate, adoring the views below,
Where waves oceanic dance, leaping on windy tempos,
Propagating ambitions of...

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Categories: nostalgic, life, lost love, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: nostalgic, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Visitor - POTW- A Collaboration With July Morning
POTW 28 January 2018

Prologue:
A beautiful extra-terrestrial female researcher is sent down to a remote island to observe earth and beam her findings back to her...

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Categories: nostalgic, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Sun That Parts the Clouds
Through frayed seams a rosy dream bleeds 
needled and re-stitched 
with threads of time and love and hope..

and still — a rosy dream bleeds 
the...

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Categories: nostalgic, age, emotions, fear, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cloud Castles
As a girl, I imagined a place to be
Sprinkled in stardust, where grassy skies rotate
A pirate nymph, commanding the purple sea
Leaping unicorns across a rainbow...

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Categories: nostalgic, childhood, fantasy, happy, imagination,
Form: Rispetto
Premium Member Nightmare
“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
Frida Kahlo“

In the absence of love,
a childhood is shaped by the stars,
but when black smoke...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nostalgic, analogy, childhood, dream, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I wish I had
Once upon a silent summer eve, 
as fine vermilion lines, 
between bleeding moonlight, 
swiftly sailed across
  my darkness and I, 
sakura springs sang 
...

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Categories: nostalgic, angst,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs