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Home Longing Poems

These Home Longing poems are examples of Longing poems about Home. These are the best examples of Longing Home poems written by international poets.


The Reminder
There are many things that remind me of you.
Every time the sun sets,
And the sky paints itself in thousands of colors,
I see you.

The songs you...

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Categories: longing, goodbye, i miss you,



Premium Member The Lighthouse at Night
The lighthouse sits upon the desolate island shore
Slowly dilapidating as its pieces fall to the ocean floor 
Seagulls and ospreys have made it their coastal...

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Categories: grief, longing, lost love,

Selfish and Selfless
In the quiet of night, when the world felt so still,
I brought you home, my heart full yet so filled with fear,
A baby so small,...

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Categories: longing, anger, angst, anxiety, child,

Premium Member Between now and then, a timeless longing is born
Between now and then, a timeless longing is born,
A place where the heart sings its straight lines,
Neither today nor tomorrow, just a suspended moment,
A secret...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longing, fantasy,

the disturbance of my presence
i wait for the day i’m no longer a stray?
for the moment my soul finds a place it can stay
?when all death arrives, quiet and...

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Categories: longing, 8th grade, angst, dream,



Her Silent Longing
The young woman returned home
with her baby
promised never to go back
to her husband's house.

But after some days
she left with another man.

Her younger brother adopted her...

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Categories: longing, mother son,

Premium Member Where the Spirits Live
Come to me and take me there
Into your reality
Without you I’m unaware
Of my personality
So much love I have to give
Since you’ve gone one day
Show me...

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Categories: for her, longing, love,

Montreal - Apr 29
O’ Mother!, take me back at last, receive
—(unclasped arms as vast as mine)—my embrace;
this longing, laughing love, the proof and grace
of my abiding for your...

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Categories: longing, celebration, happy, home, immigration,

Premium Member Separated
The empty corridor of distance 
stretches long and dark between us. 
Silence, like a deepening shadow, 
lengthens as no words redeem us. 

Time, an ancient...

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Categories: emotions, endurance, loneliness, longing,

Ghost Messages

I miss you.
Maybe I should tell you.
Maybe I should tear through the distance
with something as simple, as foolish,
as a “hey, you crossed my mind.”

But what...

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Categories: longing, love, miss you, missing

Yet
Wouldn't it be so beautiful to begin each day 
Where our first breaths are each other?
The sun through the blinds warming our skin 
The sweet...

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© Lila Head  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longing, love,

Premium Member Leave a Message
I love you little Bluebird 
Here's bidding you sleep tight 
I'll dream about your pretty face 
Until the morning light 
And when I wake I'll...

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Categories: longing, i love you, imagery,

Tattoo Deportation- Inked in Chains
The sound of wheels on tarmac
Keeps me focused
Keeps me grounded
Keeps me present

The sound of wheels on tarmac
Takes me farther and farther away
From everything I have...

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Categories: longing, symbolism, war,

Premium Member Peaceful abode
in a world of chaos
where harmony is just a dream
and nightmares induce every scream
i'll freely ride high upon a moonbeam
to machinate the perfect scheme
to build...

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Categories: home, longing, nature, peace,

Her head was on my shoulder
I remembered when you came for my birthday. 
It was years ago.
Ten to be exact.

You would not go home and stood long
You almost slept in...

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Categories: longing, anxiety, betrayal, hurt, lonely,


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