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An Auld Kirk YardSeven beautiful lines contest,
Sponsor Constance La France
Posted 21/3/25
Through the auld Kirk gate in the churchyard wall
The rough green field where my ancestors lie
Woodbine and ivy around the graves sprawl
With Rosemary and...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Missing the YouShivering, sobbing here me falling apart,
I wake up everyday calling it a nightmare
With wetty eyes yet swollen face,
This would remind me of a wide race,
I have to run alone without you my side,
Your shadow...
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Categories:
nostalgia, anxiety, dark, dedication, depression,
Form: Free verse
It’s SpringSpring is here again
run and tell your friends
the pigs are grunting
donkeys are braying
cows are mooing
sheep are bleating
dogs are barking
hens are clucking
and the farm animals
have come alive.
It is spring and we have to survive
Spring is...
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Categories:
nostalgia, america, animal, beautiful, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
The Andy Griffith ShowBarney Fife, the bumbler, is a joy to watch
Aunt Bea’s whining could be turned down a notch
Opie is grown, but not in these old shows, of course
Some days he sneaks carrots out to his found...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
kodack bluesKODACK BLUES
Up above me is an empty sky
Tonight, I miss you, but I cannot cry
I’m travelling like an explorer’s ship
I forge a smile but don’t give a flip
Nighttime calls me and I wonder why
Do you...
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Categories:
nostalgia, absence, betrayal, missing you,
Form: Rhyme
Sense of the End"You're as beautiful as the day I lost you."
The sky is as blue as the day we said goodbye
My heart is as heavy as it was when we said our last I love you
My taste...
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Categories:
lost, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
COVID Conjugation
Categories:
mental health, nostalgia, satire,
Form: Senryu
Cerulean Mood
Written: March 16, 2025, for a contest Sponsored By Cobstance la France
Quote: Like the sun, show mercy, and like the night, hide others' flaws. Give like water and be humble like the earth....
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Categories:
autumn, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Volverte a verVolverte a ver
Algunas veces pienso que tú ya te vas,
y quizás será para no volverte a ver jamás.
Es uno de esos días donde te vuelvo a recordar,
y me pongo a pensar cuánto te quise de...
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Categories:
longing, loss, love, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Nostalgia
colicky shadows
sad mimes
time wanders
lover's treasured ballad
a circuitous serenade.
Melody familiar rolls
echoing irretrievable lyrics that never go unconscious.
And your absence this present
offers stony pillows, nights upon days,
an uncompelled heart following a paper...
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Categories:
memory, missing you, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
TreelineFinally a place,
Nothing's higher than treeline.
I can see the sky
All the time for once again.
But I'll miss all of those times....
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Categories:
nostalgia, imagery, memory, moving on,
Form: Tanka
Us AgainOh, I want to go back
To when forever was possible
When I was still falling asleep on your couch
When our only fears were of monsters in the dark
When we would get so mad at our...
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Categories:
nostalgia, childhood, first love, growing
Form: Free verse
Nostalgic MelancholicThrough all the years of these elemental seasons changing,
I've thought about all of the reasons why life can be depressing,
As well as why all these memories trespass my every feeling....
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Categories:
nostalgia, emotions, memory, mental health,
Form: Sijo
On WalkingI recently went walking
On grounds around a lake,
Pristine as the morning dew,
Pure beauty mine to take.
The silence there was deafening
The purity profound,
And the meaning of life itself
Was all around.
Not...
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Categories:
nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
When the Full Moon Rises
The night falls, a darkened sky,
Stars glitter at me… every second, every time.
From the eastern side of my island, we see an eye—
A bright, round, dark-yellow eye,
Peeking from beneath the calm, dark ocean blue,
Yawning, as...
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Categories:
nostalgia, autumn, childhood, culture, joy,
Form: Narrative
Specific Types of Nostalgia Poems
Definition | What is Nostalgia in Poetry?
Poems Related to Nostalgia
longing, sentimentality, remorse, yearning, homesickness, reminiscence, schmaltz, wistfulness, pining, fond memories, hearts and flowers, tear jerker,