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Best Goodbye Poems

Below are the all-time best Goodbye poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of goodbye poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Goodbye
(NOTHING MORE TO SAY)

I've seen the way you look at me
I've seen the way you look at them
Without wanting to admit, you hate everything I...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: break up, conflict, goodbye,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Last Goodbye
Inviting vibrancy as the season changed
Smiley faces bloomed, reopening dreams. 
Seeing you there marked a blessed event
Akin to magical when first time eyes met.

Breezing trees...

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Categories: goodbye, imagery, love, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Last Letter
Oh my dearest love, how longingly I recall
Amorous wink of joy, teasing zealous eyes
When you held my hand on journey of life
And never let go...

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Categories: farewell, goodbye, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Silent Page
Silent Heart

Sad, as it maybe, I had to break my OWN heart, 
Too many nights, I sat there all torn apart
A dream girl, 
Sitting under...

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Categories: goodbye, confusion, corruption, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Black Cloak
It's like a black cloak around our world bringing misery and death
Virologists are saying " you ain't seen nothing yet" 
If only our leaders would...

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Categories: death, evil, goodbye, grief,
Form: Rhyme



Have a Lovely Day
Have a lovely day


Pushed now to the limit by a never ending whisper
Lost behind the meaning of a question I can’t hear
Dreaming of a day...

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Categories: goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member summer rain -
I wade into the surf and stand alone

                 ...

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Categories: bereavement, goodbye, soulmate, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Acorn
Stay - One more golden morning –
Linger - One more silver night –
Abide tiny child born of my desire
To encourage a new life;
Watch with me...

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Categories: autumn, blessing, change, goodbye,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The River of Tears
Wind whistling through the weeping willow tree
Its teary leaves drip silently into the fast flowing river
They float freely dancing in the dappled daylight
Caught in the...

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Categories: emotions, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member frozen farewell -
your breath upon the window freezes lace
        yet warm against my cheek, its somber strains
   ...

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Categories: analogy, christmas, goodbye, lost
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Memories of Bygone Days
Memories Of Bygone Days


O' yes,  how well I remember her still
giant black oak atop big wooded hill
Those treasured days now long flown by
our free...

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Categories: emotions, farewell, goodbye, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Our Life Is a Poem
life is a guesthouse,
no one overstays their welcome.

As background music
slowly muffles into softer tones,
breaths struggle to appease.
Deep painful faint sighs,
fall like crumbling leaves -
I'm vulnerable...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: assonance, death, goodbye, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Golden Hearts - ::POTD::
How does it feel?
It's hard to tell
Sad when I pause
Taking moments to dwell

It's the pearl that is lost
It's the half-empty shell 
It's the un-told story
It's...

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Categories: angel, bereavement, goodbye, grandfather,
Form: Rhyme
I Need Your Help Daddy
I’m tired
I’m Physically and Emotionally tired
I don’t want to be the strong one anymore
I can’t this time
I don’t know what to do Daddy
I need your...

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Categories: goodbye, absence, angst, cry, dad,
Form: Elegy
I'M Not Your Puppet
I’m Not Your Puppet

Don’t you ever forget
that I’m not your puppet! 
I’m not a toy on a string that you can manipulate,
so you can walk...

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Categories: break up, goodbye, relationship,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs