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Oskar Hansen
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Melancholy (Shadorma) - Poem by Oskar Hansen
Homesickness
Twenty years away
I dare not
Travel there
A stranger on foreign shores
Who knows me now?
Poems by Oskar Hansen : 1152 / 2542
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Poem Submitted: Saturday, December 10, 2011
Poem Edited: Saturday, December 10, 2011
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I relate to this. I went 'home' after 20 years away and it was no longer home. It was just somewhere I'd been before, like an almost forgotten girlfriend who has put on twenty pounds, a ring, and kids. (Report) Reply