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Farewell Animal Poems

These Farewell Animal poems are examples of Animal poems about Farewell. These are the best examples of Animal Farewell poems written by international poets.

Premium Member Goodbye, Odie
Goodbye, Odie

My little old cat is dying.
His steps are awkward, eyes unfocussed
and he cries when he can’t see me.
I’m not sure I want to be...

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Categories: animal, bereavement, cat, death,

Premium Member My Donkey
When my donkey does loudly bray.
Then I know he is out of hay.
I’ll bring a new bale,
And away he’ll sail.
I hope he’s not running away.
...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: animal, confusion, farewell, food,
Saying Goodbye to My Dog
It wasn’t supposed to happen this way.
Yesterday she was running and playing.
Today she is lying on her right side,
head resting motionless on the quilt
 ...

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Categories: animal, death, dog, farewell,
I See You I Hear You I Feel You
I see you in the bus rides to school, when the sun is shining so perfectly over the trees.

I hear you in the music I...

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© Nelly Osth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: animal, death, dog, farewell,
Premium Member Reverse Polarity
Reverse Polarity

Direct, straight, and true,
to the sun the crow doth fly to you.
High above the event horizon,
on Icarus currents, his outstretched wings fly on,
and in...

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Categories: animal, creation, farewell, mystery,

Premium Member Embedded
Even though you're not here, 
I miss your morning meows
I've ignored you parting from me
But, you haven't gone anyhow. 

I remember six years ago, ...

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Categories: animal, best friend, cat,
Zen Death Haiku Viii
ZEN DEATH HAIKU VIII

These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. 

Had I not known
I was already dead
I might have mourned
my own...

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Categories: animal, age, allusion, analogy, angst,
Zen Death Haiku Vi
ZEN DEATH HAIKU VI

These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.

Both victor and vanquished are dewdrops:
flashes of light
briefly illuminating the void.
—Ouchi Yoaka,...

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Categories: age, analogy, angst, animal,
Zen Death Haiku V
ZEN DEATH HAIKU V

These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku. 

A cat in heat
can't catch a mouse? —
pathetic! 
—Kinpu, loose translation...

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Categories: age, analogy, angst, animal,
Unsafe Bedroom
Into the damp room things creep.
So, in it no one should sleep,
Young girls asked to do so weep,
Ruth awake all night: scared heap,
Thrice did fearfully...

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Categories: animal, cry, fear, places,
Premium Member The Path of a Doe
The path of a doe crossed that of a fawn
    who nuzzled up to her ere break of dawn

  They lay...

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Categories: animal, farewell, mother son,
Premium Member Our Furry Daughter Reva
Our four-legged furry daughter Reva bid us a farewell 
She went on her new journey wagging her tail
God came to take her during her sleep
Took...

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Categories: animal, dog, love,
A Day Out At the Zoo
We rode on a bicycle made for two,
    While on vacation, to visit a zoo.
    Where we strolled around,...

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Categories: animal, cat, tiger,
Premium Member Lifelong, Beer Pong
Lifelong 
  Beer pong

  Sing song
  Get gonged

  Headstrong 
  He's wrong

  So long
  King Kong...

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Categories: animal, drink, farewell, song,
Premium Member El Matador
Pedro, a slick, suave and smooth matador
  The pride of his native-state, Ecuador
    He'd flash his red cape
   ...

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Categories: animal, courage, farewell, red,

Book: Shattered Sighs