Best Farewells Poems
Below are the all-time best Farewells poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of farewells poems written by PoetrySoup members
Living In the Dark
It is the night, in deepest dark, that death foretells
the demon heart in which all lonely feeling dwells.
Yet, in plain sight, our eyes can’t see...
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Categories:
farewells, anxiety, dark,
Form:
Monorhyme
Romance Was Not Our MuseRomance was not our muse, he types
Not writes his farewells before each morning -
A simple 'Till tomorrow' left by cooling sheets.
We started as lovers, before...
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Categories:
farewells, goodbye, loss, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
A Brand New Leash For MeI left your side not long ago,
To run on Heaven‘s fields.
I know you’ll miss me daily,
While writing poems on the hills.
With no farewells exchanged,
And no...
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Categories:
farewells, petsgod, me, longing, day,
Form:
Quatrain
As Solitude Rains````
As the sunset of life beckons me
in marmalade farewells, orange sherbet adieus,
I stroll in uneven footsteps,
not sure of the bridges I crossed
or those burned in...
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Categories:
farewells, loneliness, silence,
Form:
Free verse
Where Once We PlayedAcross our childhood’s street we trod
on carpet lawn and holy sod.
We walked along where some had prayed.
Where once we played, he now is laid.
The dead’s...
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Categories:
farewells, places,
Form:
Kyrielle
The Days of Wine and RosesFlickering in the night, a melting’s texture of regrets afterglow,
Candlelight’s waxed drippings staining the white laced table cloth,
Yet in the black and white photo album...
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Categories:
farewells, art, beauty, devotion, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Into the Sunset
We are facing the sunset, in the afternoon light,
while shadows stretch eastward over the hills.
Music selected from the radio waves
has blinded my senses in reverie's...
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Categories:
farewells, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
The ConcertDrumming along on steering wheel
And dashboard, to rhythm and beats
8-track drowning out giddy squeals,
Till butts plopped down in venue seats.
The buzzing crowd was everywhere
All walks...
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Categories:
farewells, adventure, music, people, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Wisdom Is My WealthIf I do not trust my wisdom
then I have earned nothing,learned nothing,loved nothing, become nothing,
I would be a random phantom,a struggle absent triumph to fathom,
just...
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Categories:
farewells, wisdom,
Form:
Didactic
A Lambs Memoryi still think of you everyday
but somehow you are slipping away
the things that were your shadows and reflections
are soon becoming fading recollections
i still have times...
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Categories:
farewells,
Form:
Rhyme
I Bear-Ly SurvivedThe beauteous days of summer were here at last,
And the primetime of nature was coming so fast!
We sat on the porch, watching a lazy day...
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Categories:
farewells, adventure, animal, fantasy, flower,
Form:
Couplet
One Night This Darkness - Collaboration With Chris GreenOne night this darkness will end life
with clouds in damp fog without stars
and a moon dressed in tatters screaming
at feet scratched on pebbles in low-tide
rough...
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Categories:
farewells, analogy, art, night, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
farewells, appreciation, friendship, wisdom,
Form:
Couplet
Window of Past MomentsThe evening sky invites me to gaze
Beyond the porch’s open window,
Igniting my senses to reflect about
Bygone days like one long replay
Where parts of ...
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Categories:
farewells, introspection, remembrance day,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Feeling of Love Like BellsFeelings of mine
Similar as a chiming of church bells.
My feeling of love is like bells,
Echoing loudly.
Sorrow as beautiful
A blue as bluebells.
Gradual as time
Flows onwards,...
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Categories:
farewells, love, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Free verse