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Neither Here Nor ThereEveryone laughs and everyone cries,
But then when it's time to say their goodbyes,
Nobody wants to nobody’s ready.
Nobody told them they’d have to already.
Come on now, time to say your goodbyes.
Everyone comes and everyone goes,
But nobody...
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Categories:
leaving, 8th grade, absence, fear,
Form: Free verse
An Unlocked Door
My dearest child, please hear
You are still underage
The world you do not fear
Its strength you cannot gauge
If fixed to go away
Don’t bring on dreadful shame
That will make it certain
Ever stamped on your name
Life demands a...
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Categories:
leaving, family, father daughter, father
Form: Rhyme
Kill meKill my life
Kill my life, oh my life
My life lost, got your life
Your life killed me, it’s lost life
Kill my life, I don’t want to live, I give you my life
Take it, get it,...
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Categories:
death, leaving, life, love,
Form: Free verse
My Greatest SinWhat’s worse than hating someone you used to love?
Someone you admired disappointing you
Again and again
I didn't want to be proven wrong
I didn't want my friends
Who I defended you to
Ending up right
I'll face my
Jeering critics and...
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Categories:
betrayal, leaving, relationship,
Form: Free verse
GLIMPSE OF A RAINBOWIn the darkest fields are my robes of blood
Soaking and cursing me every night to shed.
Little through the valley lies my heart;
When I met you it stopped and was so beating hard!
Not through the...
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Categories:
leaving, confusion, emotions, goodbye, happiness,
Form: Free verse
The Cold
What are you doing? No, don’t do that!
Don’t play with the cold.
Make sure the doors closed tight.
Make sure the seals hold.
That’s how it’ll get us, that’s how it’ll win.
That wind that you hear, it has...
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Categories:
absence, destiny, evil, leaving,
Form: Free verse
I'm Just Here For NowI'm surviving
Biding my time
Filling my days
With words that rhyme
Living each day
As it arrives
Hoping my sanity
Still survives
I dream of the future
Such a time will come
That I will leave this place
When my lessons are done
I will move...
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Categories:
destiny, growth, leaving, life,
Form: Rhyme
useful bodyErasing your fingertips.
Painting over your love.
The bruises no longer hurt, but the memories do.
Picked me up at 2, dropped me home at 11. Of course, I’m...
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Categories:
leaving, abuse, angst, betrayal, drug,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
leaving, winter,
Form: Haiku
RetirementRetirement
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire
Stop working now
The nine-to-five grind
Is over now
Retirement
Exit and excite
Up up and away
Man goes
Banjo your mango
On your salad day
Now is not the time
To join the navy
The prospects look good
And the perks are plum
Light up the...
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Categories:
leaving, blessing, celebration, devotion, farewell,
Form: Free verse
When you liedWhy won't you admit?
It ruined everything
Especially me
A relationship I relied heavily on
One that kept me going
Kept me alive
Kept me sane
You knew what I went through
You knew
So why'd you do it?
Why'd you tell me you were...
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Categories:
depression, grief, hurt, leaving,
Form: Free verse
A Sad Goodbye
We cannot part without this sad goodbye
And leaving, we are learning how to die
a little as we bid this sad farewell.
I cannot bear the sadness in your eyes
As turning slowly I must walk...
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Categories:
leaving, break up, farewell, goodbye,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Illusion Within You
Oh, my creator,
In my journey from falsehood to reality, From deceit to truth,
From confinement to boundlessness,
From obscurity to illumination,
From malevolence to benevolence,
From nonexistence to existence,
From familiarity to the unfamiliar.
Oh, my...
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Categories:
goodbye, leaving, planet, world,
Form: Free verse
Searching for the exquisite presentWhat compares to the present?
The present is like a needle
Time threading through its eye
A needle on a phonograph
My record is now on the B side
Still, I can't listen to the present
The future is encrypted
A symphony...
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Categories:
future, grave, leaving, loss,
Form: Free verse
Carpet Cleaning. for public domain
Carpet Cleaning
What should we leave behind?
Debts? Memories sublime?
Undeserved blessings passed on to us?
A fare for free passage on a Greyhound bus?
Whatever we share during a life;
A bit of our wisdom, comfort in...
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Categories:
farewell, leaving,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Leaving Poems
Definition | What is Leaving in Poetry?
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