Nostalgia Poems
#nostalgia
Nostalgia poems, uplifting poetry fortified with an air of nostalgia. Poetry exploring sentimental affections for the past and poems to remember times gone by. Poems about the popular culture of another era, memories of childhood experiences, or recollections of what home used to feel like.
Orc_Pirate_68
Poem Published
Yesterday 8:06am
Yesterday 8:06am
Synesthesia?
Yet again, the night has gotten ahold of me...
A wistful melancholy, an ennui has befallen me,
Listening to music, thinking about my past memories,
My entire life so far, flashing for my eyes to see,
Listening to melodies...
Not a longing, as in, I am discontent with my life as it stands,
But would like to go back to these times and/or places sometimes, and push back the sands
Of the hourglass,
Before it reached it's critical mass,
And experience them again, with my new, more expanded, older, mind,
Combined
With the way I felt then,...
A wistful melancholy, an ennui has befallen me,
Listening to music, thinking about my past memories,
My entire life so far, flashing for my eyes to see,
Listening to melodies...
Not a longing, as in, I am discontent with my life as it stands,
But would like to go back to these times and/or places sometimes, and push back the sands
Of the hourglass,
Before it reached it's critical mass,
And experience them again, with my new, more expanded, older, mind,
Combined
With the way I felt then,...
#memories
#myself
#confusion
#SelfReflection
#nostalgia
23 reads
5 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
16th Nov 2019 2:08am
16th Nov 2019 2:08am
On Whipped Cream and Other Delights
I think it was back in nineteen eighty,
Perhaps as early as nineteen seventy-nine,
When my uncle used to play this kind of music,
From another decade way before my time.
And though I didn’t truly comprehend it,
The image really stuck in my mind,
And that particular childhood memory,
Influenced me to be musically inclined.
Now that I’m a grown man and look back,
I’ve come to identify how it made me feel,
Something so classy was also suggestive,
An album cover with so much sex appeal.
Her dress looked like...
Perhaps as early as nineteen seventy-nine,
When my uncle used to play this kind of music,
From another decade way before my time.
And though I didn’t truly comprehend it,
The image really stuck in my mind,
And that particular childhood memory,
Influenced me to be musically inclined.
Now that I’m a grown man and look back,
I’ve come to identify how it made me feel,
Something so classy was also suggestive,
An album cover with so much sex appeal.
Her dress looked like...
#music
#nostalgia
#sensual
45 reads
12 Comments
LunaGreyhawk
Poem Published
14th Nov 2019 9:05pm
14th Nov 2019 9:05pm
Earth and Brackish Water
I can still smell
the grass
in my
grandmother’s yard,
just after
the pink-tinged
blue-gray hue
of the Florida sunrise -
fat and waxy blades,
swollen velvet
under my bare feet
while the cicadas
sing their melodies
with such gusto,
it’s almost a tangible thing;
the air around me
breathes
heavily to their rhythm
and the smell of
earth and brackish water
releases
with each step;
elephant ears
listening
to cherub-faced giggles
from my cousins
while I stand ...
the grass
in my
grandmother’s yard,
just after
the pink-tinged
blue-gray hue
of the Florida sunrise -
fat and waxy blades,
swollen velvet
under my bare feet
while the cicadas
sing their melodies
with such gusto,
it’s almost a tangible thing;
the air around me
breathes
heavily to their rhythm
and the smell of
earth and brackish water
releases
with each step;
elephant ears
listening
to cherub-faced giggles
from my cousins
while I stand ...
#memories
#nostalgia
56 reads
8 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
13th Nov 2019 00:51am
13th Nov 2019 00:51am
Swept Off into a Dream
She swore they’d always be friends,
Then again that’s how friendships end,
He couldn’t be more than what he wanted to be,
She had his heart and held the key,
But that’s what happens when one falls for another,
When the emotions run deep one discovers,
The stars weren’t aligned,
Now they’re left far behind
And the light that once gleamed,
Got swept off into a dream.
And so they went their separate ways,
Bonded by memories of golden days,
But the feeling feels like a nostalgic ember,
It’s fantastic just to remember, ...
Then again that’s how friendships end,
He couldn’t be more than what he wanted to be,
She had his heart and held the key,
But that’s what happens when one falls for another,
When the emotions run deep one discovers,
The stars weren’t aligned,
Now they’re left far behind
And the light that once gleamed,
Got swept off into a dream.
And so they went their separate ways,
Bonded by memories of golden days,
But the feeling feels like a nostalgic ember,
It’s fantastic just to remember, ...
#UnrequitedLove
#FeelingLost
#nostalgia
62 reads
11 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
8th Nov 2019 4:08pm
8th Nov 2019 4:08pm
It’s Been A Long Time
#love
#nostalgia
#sensual #passion
#sensual #passion
399 reads
16 Comments
Cocoa
Poem Published
8th Nov 2019 00:19am
8th Nov 2019 00:19am
Dark Berries
Emotions tenderly under seize
Heart refuses to move
I yearn to feel the hands of gentle steel
Lying under a stalwart’s groove
Given space in time
As earth clocks chimed
To chase a fragile rose by design
Garden of Eve in A.D
As suspected was not Divine
Caresses of paradise
The fruits of passion laid at your feet until the calling of sunrise
Eaten upon so sweet
For a weary heart won by defeat
Entwined lovers whisper again
Ecstasy found in the rapture of my soft skin
As we come to greet
Surpassing the stars,...
Heart refuses to move
I yearn to feel the hands of gentle steel
Lying under a stalwart’s groove
Given space in time
As earth clocks chimed
To chase a fragile rose by design
Garden of Eve in A.D
As suspected was not Divine
Caresses of paradise
The fruits of passion laid at your feet until the calling of sunrise
Eaten upon so sweet
For a weary heart won by defeat
Entwined lovers whisper again
Ecstasy found in the rapture of my soft skin
As we come to greet
Surpassing the stars,...
#memories
#nostalgia
204 reads
9 Comments
Taurek
Poem Published
5th Nov 2019 4:21am
5th Nov 2019 4:21am
You Got Broken Skin, I Got Broken Bones
The secret is to get yourself a
really good S&P index fund.”
To really be good at
It you have to stop
Drinking alcohol
and Coffee
you’ll understand
once you quit for
a month or so
they keep saying
I’m going to end
Up alone like
That’s a bad
Thing
Life is messy and
Unnecessary
Trying to make
It to prove
Something
To who?
I got these people
I know who
Really think they’re
Going to be...
really good S&P index fund.”
To really be good at
It you have to stop
Drinking alcohol
and Coffee
you’ll understand
once you quit for
a month or so
they keep saying
I’m going to end
Up alone like
That’s a bad
Thing
Life is messy and
Unnecessary
Trying to make
It to prove
Something
To who?
I got these people
I know who
Really think they’re
Going to be...
#MeToo
#summer
#alcohol
#coffee
#nostalgia
62 reads
2 Comments
Razzerleaf
Poem Published
4th Nov 2019 9:21pm
4th Nov 2019 9:21pm
Standing on platform shoes
Metal Guru was deafening the neighbors from my brothers bedroom as I splashed on some of dads Old Spice and wriggled a skinny bum in front of my box-room mirror, I say box-room because there was a pecking order and I sat at the bottom of the food chain. The music suddenly sounded off kilter as mum added to the drum beat by banging on the down stairs wall, “Your tea’s out” both me and my brother always waited for the “I wont tell you again” before we made a dash for the stairs.
I wasn’t old enough to be penitent but the fashion of the day was a woolen v-neck jumper, green with...
I wasn’t old enough to be penitent but the fashion of the day was a woolen v-neck jumper, green with...
#memories
#nostalgia
29 reads
4 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
4th Nov 2019 00:12am
4th Nov 2019 00:12am
Nostalgia Revisited
Is the grass always greener?
Oh imagineer and dreamer,
Who’s always looking at the other side,
Thinking about days of old,
Wishing you could‘ve been foretold,
Longing in your heart you could re-decide.
And it’s no use to torment,
Yourself at every moment,
For the road not taken without a stride,
It is best to look ahead,
Than relive the past and dread,
Then be swept off to sea at high tide.
Better yet to err and learn,
So that you’re able to discern,
How the choices you have made applied,
You think it’s...
Oh imagineer and dreamer,
Who’s always looking at the other side,
Thinking about days of old,
Wishing you could‘ve been foretold,
Longing in your heart you could re-decide.
And it’s no use to torment,
Yourself at every moment,
For the road not taken without a stride,
It is best to look ahead,
Than relive the past and dread,
Then be swept off to sea at high tide.
Better yet to err and learn,
So that you’re able to discern,
How the choices you have made applied,
You think it’s...
#memories
#nostalgia
46 reads
6 Comments
Benzy_420
Poem Published
3rd Nov 2019 7:10am
3rd Nov 2019 7:10am
Holding Funds
#relationships
#sex
#money
#music
#nostalgia
73 reads
0 Comments
gardenlover
Poem Published
2nd Nov 2019 9:20pm
2nd Nov 2019 9:20pm
Bad Girl
#confusion
#nostalgia
#FirstLove
291 reads
2 Comments
Evocation
Poem Published
2nd Nov 2019 8:11pm
2nd Nov 2019 8:11pm
The Loner
Cold cobbled streets
strewn with cigarettes
and warm spit.
Vacant minds
near closing time,
sipping coffee
in twilight.
The sweet smell
of warm pastry
makes me hunger,
for a woman.
The days retreat
into cloudy memories,
like virgin land,
untouched forever.
strewn with cigarettes
and warm spit.
Vacant minds
near closing time,
sipping coffee
in twilight.
The sweet smell
of warm pastry
makes me hunger,
for a woman.
The days retreat
into cloudy memories,
like virgin land,
untouched forever.
#loneliness
#memories
#nostalgia
113 reads
9 Comments
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