Love, We're Going Home Now
Love, We're Going Home Now - meaning Summary
Returning to Love's Home
The poem addresses a beloved as the speakers decide to return home after long wandering. Exotic, travel-soaked images give way to domestic and seasonal motifs—vines, honeysuckle, sea, birds, nest—to frame love as migratory that needs rest and renewal. The speaker accepts an end to perpetual movement, celebrating the shift from nomadic kisses to a settled, shared home where affection belongs and is replenished by intimacy and the rhythms of nature.
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