After Grandpa died,
Mom told us he was back home
-thanksgiving dinner
In steerage for weeks,
They came on deck to see home
-lady liberty.
Summer camp over,
There was a long bus ride back
-home seemed to be new.
At meeting Boss says:
"I'm giving myself a raise!
-you can all go home."
Coming home again,
I felt like a stranger there
-after the war, distance.
I walked through the ward,
knowing this was home to them
-children's hospital.
When young, home was huge!
I went away to college
-then I found it small.
Victory touchdown!
After losing all season
-happy homecoming.
Copyright 2008
These are all wonderful examples of homecoming, Edward! My favorite is the first.
ReplyDeleteThanks for these, Edward. I enjoyed the various perspectives on home--looking close, looking away and coming back. All so good!
ReplyDeleteLovely Edward! They all appeal to the emotions. We all recognize them.
ReplyDeleteLet's hope we'll all come home when Obama wins. :)
All touch us at some level. Great verses!
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You reminded me of going back to my old childhood home, and also the halls of my grade school - everything was so tiny! Enjoyed your post!
ReplyDeleteWonderful thoughts of home and homecomings. Well done Edward!
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Thank you Edward, these are all soooo great! The verse telling of the children's ward being home touched me the most. Mrs. Jim has worked professionally as a social worker in the children's ward of M.D.Anderson Cancer Center here.
ReplyDeleteI take you are not a Red Socks fan or they may have been mentioned, when I lived in Manchester, New Hampshire, Fenway Park was 'homecoming' of sorts to me.
Thank you for your nice comment, our Adi is a very loving dog.
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Those were all so good. My favorite, though, was the one about Grandpa.
ReplyDeleteHome represents so many things to so many people; all your examples reflect wonderfully their place of belonging or being.
ReplyDeleteReally enjoyed all these home scenarios!
ReplyDeleteBut the children's ward reflection ~ so poignant!
nice takes on home, the one about being a stranger stands out to me, perhaps homes will always be the same but you can change somehow
ReplyDeleteThey're all nice but I particlly like and can relate to the one about coming home and it seeming small now.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great range you have covered. They are all good. My favorites, I think, were the third, fifth and sixth.
ReplyDeleteYour second poem hit me hard. My dad told me once of returning from WW2 on the Queen Elizabeth after being wounded in Holland. The patients were brought up on deck to see the Statue of Liberty, as they came into harbor. How could of I forgotten a homecoming story like that?
ReplyDeleteWhat wonderful poems about home. I particularly enjoyed the immigrant poem. My grandmother came here through Ellis Island when she was a teenager. I have often pictured what it must have been like for her.
ReplyDeletebeautiful who knew home could be so important
ReplyDeleteGreat haiku for the prompt! Each one a perfect description of homecoming!
ReplyDeleteThese are so nice. I'm with Barb, loving the first one. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI love how you saw the many facets of homecoming. Wonderful!
ReplyDeletewow!! what a group. all the emotions that flowed through me as i read them...it was amazing! & it reminded me that not every homecoming is easy or what one expects...
ReplyDeleteto leave and return is always emotionally haunting
ReplyDeleteYou always give us so much to think about. I also love your sublte sense of humor.
ReplyDeleteHey, Ed. Good to see you're still coming up with these. Are you going to dip into hay(na)ku soon? I can lend you the anthology, if you like.
ReplyDelete..thank u for looking at homecoming with the understanding it deserves..
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