A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.