The article reveals through the poetry of Slovene emigrant women poets existential sensation in emigrant environment. Of numerous Slovene emigrants female poets the contribution deals in detail with the poems of Milena Šoukal (Chicago, U.S.A.), Pavla Gruden (Australia) and Milena Merlak-Detela (Vienna). Their poems are presented from the aspect of thematic of longing for the native land that is a constant in all Slovene emigrant poetry. The frequence, declarativeness and a unique symbolic of motives of longing are defined by solitariness outside homeland and away from relatives, by remembrances of the native soil and its difficult past, and by fear ofnot returning home. Thus, their longing frequently transgresses to poetical metaphor of seeking homeland in religious sense.