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Grief Nostalgia Poems

These Grief Nostalgia poems are examples of Nostalgia poems about Grief. These are the best examples of Nostalgia Grief poems written by international poets.


Premium Member First Sight Ephemera
You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again. - Maggie Stiefvater,...

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Categories: appreciation, love, nostalgia, passion,



Grieving the Shift
Time passes, conversation and music ends,
light refracts, shimmers in water, bends.
Nails grow, hair lengthens, heads turn and bones break,
stems wilt, gardens overgrow, clouds regurgitate water...

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Categories: nostalgia, analogy,

Kiss the rain
Cloud is getting dark .
It's going to rain ,
that reminds the pain .
I want to kiss the rain !
I want to kiss the rain !
I...

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Categories: nostalgia, deep, feelings, kiss, life,

Premium Member Dying Screams

Gusts thump the windows,
Never seen, but always heard,
Hastening to meet the tallest oaks,
Urging them to sway, bending,
Leaning as if to waltz this way, that way,
Wherever...

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Categories: death, nature, nostalgia, wind,

Nostalgic grief with relief
I miss the days of mine
I miss the old me which used to shine
Like a star with unrelenting light
But now I love the darkness of...

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Categories: nostalgia, childhood, innocence, memorial, memory,



Premium Member Poor Old David
Words I’ve heard my whole life
Poor old David, poor old Michael, poor old daddy

If you’re from the heart of Appalachia, these are…
Words that mean the...

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Categories: nostalgia, angst, appreciation, emotions, family,

The Dilemma
It's 42 Degree Centigrade. The moon
      shines hotly in Dammam.
Indians and Filipinos bathe
      in soak...

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Categories: confusion, grief, nostalgia, work,

Premium Member When the Magic Spell Is Broken
When the magic spell is broken and the fog begins to lift.
And the heat of the day breaks through and clarity is no longer adrift.

The...

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Categories: analogy, nostalgia,

Premium Member The Old Suitcase
There it was, just tossed aside.
The old suitcase
No more wanted or needed. 
But left. 
In the dust and dirt 
On the attic floor.
Remaining unopened for...

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Categories: grief, journey, nostalgia, old,

Premium Member Goodbye My Love
 Violins whisper on warm summer night
Nightingale twitters a song just for me
Lost and alone I have lost my knight
heartbreaking moment I failed to see.

Birds...

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Categories: love hurts, nostalgia,

Premium Member Backward Never
This chilly morning in Hartford 
Ensconced in the ambiance of
Freedom in God’s own country 
I woke up with a start
Lost  in the labyrinth of...

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Categories: nostalgia, allusion, anxiety, break up,

Long Into the Night
A meeting of two moms can be a wonderful thing a meeting of two minds is a beautiful thing…

Shortly after we moved into our new...

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Categories: nostalgia, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,

Premium Member Falling
fall had come --
here to stay and all the memories that came with it
with me lost in time



AP: 2nd place 2022, Honorable Mention 2022

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Categories: nostalgia, autumn, grief, loneliness, memory,

Auld Sangs
Sing tae me the auld sangs that ah learnt when a bairn,
Sitting at ma mithers knee hearin the lilting tunes,
Carrying me far awa in ma...

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Categories: nostalgia, allegory, culture, desire, grief,

Premium Member Childhood Nostalgia
Magic silver key,
fits into my silver shoes.
I was now set free,
I now owned many sidewalks.
My new skates were a big thrill.

 

Date Written: 8/4/2022

2 Place

Childhood...

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Categories: nostalgia, child, freedom, fun, joy,


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