Best Goodby Poems

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         The jaw drops
  as the lids of mine eyes
        and mine dome

   The whole procession
did hear these knees clap
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My hands spade the shovel - spay the rooted grave.
Earth is impassive.  Why won’t life relent?
The silver blades south for the black plastic bag
swallowed by west winds, wrapped in a blanket
that is olive green.  Under the sun’s harrowing husk
I peel away the last...

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Summer is going

In time leaves will be falling

rakes will be coming...

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GOODBYE MORNING PERSON

Sit up
Stretch
Yawn
Head quite empty
Woozy
No remembered dreams
Before anything else    COFFEE!
It’s the cats and me
Squeaky teeth
Sponge bath    or shower
Shave
Nothing profound 
Just life
Just plain naked
On the avenue    (back of my mind) wheels haven’t started
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I am cutting ties
that I knotted to a faraway soil.
Exiled no longer at the tiller
of a long beached fishing boat
that bobs only on the legends
of ancient waves.
Those fluent in soul-breathing,
the Celtic poets, 
those wind-chiming lyricists,
are pulling me
to the bottom of Lake Erie
where drowned sea-captains still...

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It was during the Korean War
Mother came and said
Avoiding my gaze
We don’t have enough rice left
Even for people

Even for people?
Meaning?
Not for my best friend?

That night I couldn’t sleep
With all kinds of thought
Knowing what Mother meant

Next day, old man came
With wrinkles all over his face
Put a...

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My Blood is hot like the summer sun
sitting on this cliff edge this is where 
it began with bottle of pills and an knife 

As the water flow past below my feet 
I cried in defeat "Why is this happening to me"
and as I said...

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The story has been often told
Wake up one day
And now you're old
you wonder how the years flew by
Sad enough to make one cry
Now the months just fly along
Life's no longer some sweet song
The years ahead 
You start to dread
How many left
Before you're dead...

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its time  for fall
catch the ball off the wall
get hook
to the  new school books
here's why
to say
SUMMER GOODBY...

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how are you
miss you too
we see eye to eye
so
hello and good by...

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Cold metal trains pressing refrains on hard steel tracks,
Racing ever, changing never the lyrics of clickety clack.
Loved ones scurrying, hurrying, never worrying,
They may never be riding back,
In the cold metal trains pressing refrains on hard steel tracks,
Racing ever, changing never the lyrics of clickety clack....

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what do you do when you know time is running out? how do you prepare to say goodby when 
you know it's gonna be the last time? you hold on to and cherrish every single minute, every 
single breath. does it somehow make it easier...

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your vote 
gave hope
my eyes  are wet
have to comfesse 
the world is set
after the debate
it the lord above
HELLO LOVE
GOODBY HATEl...

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Today I lost a friend of mine.
Her life was long and sweet.

She never said that she was sick ;
was happy every time we'd meet.

If she knew all her friends were sad ;
she'd be so very doggone mad,

she'd never speak to us again....

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She walked in sunlight upon the air.
new buds became blossoms in her path.
Her kindness she scattered everywhere,
on her constant pain, she spent her wrath.

My dear friend, Suzanne, last Sunday left
to join other angels, share her glee.
Ambassador, perhaps, to the cleft
that divides skies from mountains and...

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