Best Goodbyes Poems

Once more you appear, crossing my threshold
after breaking the lock to memory's door.
Your illusion enters without bothering to knock,
stepping into my room as a wavering shadow.
You breach the barrier of cries and goodbyes,
escaping from the grave where lost love slept.

I wept long ago and swore...

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Voices choral, chimes of clay ring out
oh so merrily to a wintry sky
And earthen sounds once silent, still, now shout
in harmony and majesty, they cry. 

A brightness sheers the air as metal sounds,
long cylinders of brass clink in the breeze
like childish laughter each fresh note...

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One Thousand Goodbyes

Years ago
a stranger became a friend
with little time left
she let me into her reflections
her child and husband dead
tragedy would strike again
her time on earth 
would expire soon
her empty heart to be filled
in the heavens
she showed and told
her last wishes to me
a thousand poems
she...

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Ears pricked at car door closing in the street,
and focussed on the footsteps through the gate
she stepped into the hall, unsteady feet
they bounded forward, welcome couldn't wait.
Two forty pounds of fur, and sixteen legs,
four eager snouts and tongues shot through the air
her hands held up...

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No Goodbyes Acrostic

N ever has anyone been able to capture my soul
O nly you have my heart, using remote control

G one are the days of my never ending solitude
O vercast shadows dissipate, with my newfound mood
O bvious to all my heart and soul are all...

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The Carpenters in their time were defining,
Offered their fans so much more than more,
Uncanny that the words of this song keep returning,
For the brave Ukrainians, a heartfelt encore.

Why does the sun go on shining,
Why does the sea rush to shore?
Don't they know it's the end...

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For every good thing in this life
There seems to be a bad
All the good ones make us happy
The bad ones mad or sad

But then there is the word goodbye
Which I've never understood
Cause every time I've said those words
Was anything but good

When those I love must...

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You Are My Whole Life
There Is No Goodbyes

Time is treasured 
Treasured and  only given once 
Once  only  to use wisely  
Use wisely before the  life ends

Life ends is brief to say goodbyes
Goodbyes are not forever
Forever to love each other
Each other...

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i tripped on the laces of the sad in your eyes,
like you were to tie a knot without my hands-
you were becoming…
did you know?
a sight too beautiful for the gods
but you ran wild in the forest
with none to tame,
the odds of you remembering your name
are...

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No Goodbyes 

N ever has anyone been able to capture my soul
O nly you have my heart, using remote control

G one are the days of my never ending solitude
O vercast shadows dissipate, with my newfound mood
O bvious to all my heart and soul are all...

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and all the while
summer came and left
yet the breeze lingered

persistent as the warm caress
we wished would never end



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on August 13, 2022 for contest A BRIAN STRAND PREMIERE CHOICE sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  RANKED 4TH

Posted on August 9, 2022...

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Ebony Goodbyes


I laid my aching heart upon your grave

     that February day when trees were bare

          of life; their withered leaves fell down to brave

       ...

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So many ways to say goodbye hwyl fawr is what you say
when  your leaving  here in Wales and trying not to cry
Farvel you say in Denmark used extensibly each day
Hating the final words which they themselves imply..

Now the italians say it with  feeling shouting Addio
with  such...

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Parting moments bring you closer.
The thought of separation
Disturbs your sleep and hunger.
Want to be a winner… 
Try to be together.
Take not anything for granted,
If you don’t want to be a loser.
Goodbyes play their part.



Short verse inspired by pictures Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Lisa YY
Date: 09-08-2022
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"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it"
E.E.Cummings

Friends I have lost as years rush by--
so many souls I have called friend.
lost to heaven without goodbye
If I could just hold once again.

Childhood memories kept by me,
we grew,...

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