Short Hometown Poems

Short Hometown Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Hometown by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Hometown by length and keyword.


Premium Member Teal Store

In my small hometown,
A steel door of a teal store
Always wide open,
People coming and going,
Items paid and spoken for.
Form: Tanka


My Hometown

Corn stalks dance
In abandoned fields
          Like wispy ghosts
    Without their husks
As children revel tirelessly
Midwestern skies sapphire encrusted.

Hometown

Oh, good morning faceless man 
It's going to be another summer 
Let's think of a way to get along 
I'm pursuing your wickedness

I want to play 

Peace ??
© Trish Fern  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Hawkeyes

Herald the black and gold
Helmet's ebony eye
Heroes of Iowa
Heartland fall warriors
Hefty touchdown trophies
Hometown game day glory
Hawkeyes football is back!

9/02/23
Form: Pleiades

Premium Member Criss-Crossing the Land

     Criss-crossing the skies and land
     From mountains to meadows 
     From rivers and lakes to sand

        Trains, cars, buses, planes ~
        Liberation from hometown chains
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member My Old Hometown

When, for comfort, I yearn,
is there a place I can return?
The hometown in my head
has been replaced by something else instead. 
So, solace can't be drawn - 
my hometown, now, is gone. 

42 syllables
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member My Old Hometown

Open prairie skies call my soul out.
Route 66 stretches on, 
a long, thin ribbon of black.
I fill the tank, 
breathe the wind,
past the tall oil rig that stands.
Refreshed, I turn toward home's quiet heart.

Premium Member My Old Hometown

Everything seems smaller
as I revisit old haunts.
Stores where I shopped and
the building where I was schooled
have vanished along with
youth’s dreams that stirred my passions.
I’m a stranger here now.

Premium Member Nostalgic


Bored with urban life, 										
Once I went to my hometown.	
Nostalgic I have become		
Recollecting the thrill					
Of plucking guavas,			
Of having silly fights with friends,	
And adventures in fields.

Premium Member MY OLD HOMETOWN

A trip to hometown
A bonafide power booster
Enthrals heart with nostalgia
Smiles and greets; chats with mates
Fests and fairs till late nights
Miss all and mess up with daily chores
Bygone sweet days!

Place: 4th

Premium Member My Old Hometown

quaint chats, district twangs,
greet my shell clad ear as I step,
on grey day mist platform,
childhood echoes rife,
sign rust, green flake post box, stuffed waste bin,
cute named antique street birthright,
one true home found

Two Pups

On Sunday, my sister drive 
us to church. 
On the way, we see two pups
in the entrance 
of a driveway of a home.
Two brown pups stand still
to see the morning traffic.
A comfort of joy 
refresh a love 
toward our hometown.
Form:

Premium Member Enigmatic Gentleman

In 
A
Quiet 
Dark night a
Man abandoned his
Lifetime hometown to search a new
Life that brings him better opportunities to grow
Returning many years in an unrecognizable and respectful gentleman










3-12-2016
men
Form: Fibonacci

Binary Finery

The British are first to confess
This binary stuff is a mess
For Men's toilet walls show
- a century ago -
"Gentlemen, please do up your dress!"*


* e.g., Welsh singer Tom Jones'
hometown railway station at
Pont-y-pridd
Form: Limerick

Premium Member By The Streetlamp

Standing beneath a streetlamp 
At my hometown country fair 
An odor so refreshing 
Was lingering through the air 
Thinking about my sweetheart 
With my hands upon her hips 
And feeling my heart; beating  
From the flavour of her lips

Premium Member The Closer We Get

The closer we get, the louder we get.
The louder we get, the closer we get.

The closer we get, the younger we become.
The closer we get, the more memories pop up.

Heaven or your hometown? You choose.
Hint: There is no wrong answer.

Premium Member Cameo- Once Upon a Time

A stone font and white duck found it renown
This ancient saxon hill-fort town-
Growing to wealth around its four squares
With regular markets and seasonal fairs
Buying and selling sheep,cattle and mares.

Tribute to my hometown Aylesbury
Form: Narrative

Home

Someone must miss a home.
Although a hometown
has become a city,
it will always be a muse.
Not only poets
express their longing.
And words do nothing
to break this longing.
But I have not reached
my hometown yet.

Sandakan
5 Dec 2016
© Neldy Jolo  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Idyllic

I watch fields, as nature
Invites pastoral bliss…
Irises and oaks glow
Imbued with morn’s fresh soil;
Igniting  rural charm
In  mind’s eye . O hometown
Illumines peace … earth’s gift!


2.26.17
Pleiades I :Kim Merryman's Contest
Form: Verse

Premium Member MY OLD HOMETOWN

   I'm always nostalgic 
   to visit my hometown 
   at least once a year if not more.
   That town is cradling 
    my childhood memories 
   with care and affection,  though
    its morphology is totally changed.

Premium Member My Old Hometown

My Old Hometown 

As the sands of time blow by
My hometown beach lost its treasure
The sea level rose four feet
Less shoreline
Less open expanse
Beachgoers today are over-crowded 
I watch with teary eyes

connie pachecho

10/26/25

total syllables-45

Premium Member Retiree Returnee

Maunakea comes
into view. Coastlines 
from right side windows.
Hilo, my hometown.
Soon we’ll be landing.

I feel the plane
stop and cargo
door with luggage
bumps hold, thumps ramp.

Passengers
and crew says
Aloha.

Flowered
crowned lei.

FRUITS!

Where Memories Rule

Our childhood homes gone and all their effects,
brand-new highway fills that space.
School replaced by a government complex.
But… the graveyard remains in place,
our playground on the way to school.
Log cabin monument, way cool -
staunch marker where memories rule.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Step Back In Time

in silence
the shire plods his path
in footsteps of the past

Note: On holiday recently,we took a trip by canal barge pulled this way.Very evocative for me, as on my mother's side,her forbears were canal people,and thats how they happened to arrive here in my hometown.
Form: Haiku

The Prison Lights

The prison light are
never turned off.
The darkness would
give the
prisoners' imagination to
run and dance in the
fields full of flowers;
to joyfully stroll in the 
streets of their
distant hometown.
The lights are
just dimmed.

The prison bars are
ever visible.

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