Best Departure Poems

I will watch their winged endurance, on the crest of autumn's eve,
without knowing where or distance, but in faith they must believe
As the harsh breath sounds of winter are calling geese to leave
I will hear songs of assurance, gliding low against the breeze

I can hear...

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Once simian stock from brambles
Orange buffoon whose ooze rambles
Orangutan clone 
On narcissist’s throne
Owns ape-man’s old brain in shambles...

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“Without departure “

Long expected on this one day,
Heads headed two ways,
Lingering without time,
Doves, glide in to wave goodbye.
Your wings on us have grown.
Never will I fold your friendship like a flag that had flown.
Smiles you are so wise and poetic.
With the right kind of pleasure...

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This long sojourn is

   prelude to fall's departure.

          On a river, clear…

             I hold blossoming jasmines 

and Mama's final ashes




Traditional Tanka for...

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A wall holds a bright white clock,
Five minutes tick to breach the span.
Time is relative only to breathing,
While immortality strives to live.

I rise from the depths of pain,
In fragrant mist of triumph.
The room unfolds behind me,
Where flesh obliges morbid death.

In parting, I reap one last...

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I could not see anything wrong
With getting a tan in a thong
But it made Jan ruffle
when it failed to muffle
Spicy chili con carne pong...

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I find myself at a cross road.
Which way should I go?
To my left is uncertainty. 
To my right is a dead end.
So I'm stuck  and I can't move.
I have no choice but to exit UP
My private jet is on the way
Goodbye my friends....

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"Where are you going?" I asked, but she said nothing.
Her hazel eyes raged like a tempest as she gently closed
the door behind her.  "Don't go please. I'm sorry" my
heart cried out but my stubborn pride won out and
I said nothing. 

I watched her walk...

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Ambrosia

Black tulip Shrek 

Green envy demonstrative

Butter wouldn't melt whence churned

Into something other than itself

With chicken arms and pigeon chest

Which inside to hide

The ashes of a loved one

Departed...

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Who is seeing off whom,
In home,hospital or Hell,
Visiting you in your sick room,
Knowing you won't get well?

In that space 'twixt life and death
You linger,time running out of sand,
All words mere empty breath
In what is no man's land.

Tears choked back(signs of guilt?)
A brave face essays a...

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I stand and watch as you depart,
And as you turn your head and glance,
The moment stills my heart...
When will we have another chance?

Your perfume lingers in the air
And tempts me yet to call aloud.
We should be careful not to stare,
Our love contained beneath a shroud.

Until...

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He refers to himself in the third person,
knows life with no margins or banks,
nor tides, or mention of the day he departed.
it was a day like no other.
They waited a long time and thought about Venice,
and the quiet stars,
welcoming the will and words.
Find a place...

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It’s a masquerade
A chaotic, hopeless mass
Imprisoned by choice
Waiting on a plane
Some are there on business
Others vacations
Some to bury the dead
But everyone is important
And everyone is someone
First class, business class, no class
We are all self-important
And thus meaningful
We need this validation
Otherwise we are just people
Like everyone else
But...

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Early rising
Before dawn light;
Airport glimpse

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Departure gate
Foreign currency notes;
Highway moments

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Time moves briskly
Departure lounge;
Smooth flight schedule

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Airport protocol
Check-in follow-up;
Boarding pass in-hand

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Trip entourage
Simple instructions;
Meeting on-site

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Gateway in sight
Minimal delay;
Not much to say

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Fancy frames
Attention to details;
Elegant manners

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Just for today
Make things happen;
Clockwork persuasion

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Overseas engagement
Courtesy call respite;
Polite politics

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Look out and see
Sense clear agendas;
Meeting...

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Cold as the winter was your farewell
Freezing the most profound of the soul
Leaving a hollow emptiness behind
Shuddering with heart rending intensity











Nayda Ivette
12-20-2015...

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