Best Departing Poems

The monks gave me a bag of Thai oranges
Before I left for the States.

Next time I come, I’ll have learned more Lao,
I promise.

      They promise there will be more to show the next time.

Sitting outside the Khop Jai Deu restaurant
Waiting...

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As spring departs
In the wind and rain
Termites swarm...

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I know you.
Candles lit, incense fuming,
You like it when I bite your neck, just hard enough.
Blankets thrown about the room
So recklessly, they refold themselves.

And we roll down a hill together,
Kissing the leaves, tickling with our eyes,
Laughing with our hearts.
"Once you get on that plane, you're...

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I have thought of this very hard 
For I have played every card 
The sunset is coming fast 
Leaving behind all my past

My life with you can not be
I will not pay this fee
Like the worm that kills the apple
The HIV of my chapel

When it...

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Many of you live
humbly and heartily
patriotically and industriously
nutritiously and faithfully
in Western and Southern States,

United in this time of shrinking reservoirs,
dying rivers,
hurricaned coastal residents

Displaced by floods,
invasive mold,
voracious rot and rats,

Barren top soil,
failing electrical networks,
drought,
inhumane heat,
decimated forests

Bereft of soil-restoring permaculture,
robust polycultural nutrition systems,
victory community re-engagement gardens.

U.S. long-term...

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The sweet, sweet smell of a departing soul.

Your face blurring with my tears,

as your warm hand grows cold.


The sound of children weeping breaks the heart,

with tears flowing down their cheeks,

salty kisses to part.



For the "Senses"  contest....

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Departing storm you've wreaked your wrath

As such I've seldom seen

The power of your winds and rain 

Ripped through county Racine

With straight line winds, tornado too

And lightning bright as day

The savage fury of your approach

Cause trees to bend and sway

And at the peaking of your pass

My...

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"Threat" is the word that made mothers worry about their child.
Disposable face masks have been our weapon to combat.
The whole quarantine thing tolerates people to be wild.
I got crazy for months at home; I was never like that.

It took several sips of coffee for Dad...

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the times that were together shared
	the times for each the other cared

a moment there a minute here
	immortal days of boundless cheer

golden hours of trading dreams
	joyful eyes with happy gleams

a trusting and attentive ear
	for griefs alone too hard bear

the welcome hand the open door
	the knowing of...

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And to the past they rode
The Shining Host: lent death
or immortality 
by golden sands of time.

Call not them back
Lest to discover that
They who last held 
Rome's bright light
Were marauders
Filled with spite

Nor recall
Their lovers fair
And find them sluts
Or, robbed of time's gifts, 
Now only wizened mutts

Let...

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Honed from old habits, you leave us once again

Leaving again, the way of lovers departing...

Oh, departing sun, you linger in the dusk

In dusky mauve, so reluctant to say goodbye

Goodbye you speak in many tongues 

Forked tongues of light, you spread your words in gold

And with...

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Sometimes in your life,
a point you reach,
there are those who matter,
and those that don't recipricate,
then sorrow begins to alate!

Fore when they choose,
to be less benevolent,
a vacuum will permeate,
fore there will always be,
some other yearning to percolate.

Worry less about the past,
undoubtedly there was lucidity,
why they reveled...

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I can't believe the pain in my heart,
                                     ...

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Winter's arrival signals my departure
  hidden by soft snow in the ground  
When Spring returns, I emerge from hard mud
  on sidewalks and in plush flowerbeds

I'd love to warm myself, to lay in the sun
  but I'm on the look-out twenty-four/seven
for...

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Departures!
We are all departing,
Beings of departure belonging to no one
And we lack all the knowledge of it
From the first day we came,
Our aim has been to move on,
To reach our goals. 
Enough!
You have turned me into a prey!
I noticed lately, how wantonly
You look at me...

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