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Best Goodbyes Poems

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


Premium Member tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand

I planned for you, an...

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Categories: goodbyes, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Hands
With all the time on my hands, I gave my hands one job.
 My Hands   -The Artist-

My hands paint everything in my life
they...

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Categories: goodbyes, anxiety, beautiful, beauty, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rape - trigger warning
October: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...

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Categories: goodbyes, abuse, violence,
Form: Free 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: goodbyes, farewell, goodbye, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Year Dwindling Down
Apple cheeked autumn eyes bashful skies, as

Yellow frocked summer says her goodbyes to fragrant
Earth's seeded spring, to wild bouquets
Arranged by careless care, for the
Roses and...

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Categories: goodbyes, flower, nature, seasons,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Coffee Colored Memories
It's quiet whisper stirs my languid mind
Inviting coffee colored memories
A young man's face with future yet defined
Each vapored breath a page in history

Familiar apparitions reappear
Whose...

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Categories: goodbyes, memory, morning,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member On the Wings of a Butterfly- POTD - Collab With My Sister Cecilia Crasto
POTD 10th May 2018

A dedication to our departed Mum, Anne Forbes.
 And to all the dearly departed Mums who celebrate Mother’s day on the second...

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Categories: goodbyes, dedication, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sunny Horizons - POTD
POTD 20 Dec 2018

Like sand in an hour glass
Time moves so fast
A precious commodity
Not meant to last

Measured in hours
Minutes unfold
Time waits for no man
So I’ve...

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Categories: goodbyes, appreciation, farewell, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
The Butterfly
Enroling  you a worm (cumbersome and)
hairy, you- scimitar of leaves
Knows the pain ,writhing pupae
Abandoned and convicted
Constricted hanging straightjacket
Squirming like a jackrabbit
Gagged nocturnally - ...

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Categories: goodbyes, angel, beauty, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Categories: goodbyes, life, love, nostalgia, sad,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Too Much Sadness For Me
there's too much sorrow...
don't you know
we are all going to die
a starting point always beckons a finish
sooner or later
no matter how
peaceful or painful
that final moment...

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Categories: goodbyes, sad, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic Parker
These words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when...

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Categories: goodbyes, beauty, emotions, love, passion,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Interlude
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this performance we call life,
my spirit searches for an...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: goodbyes, angst, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As I Watch the Waves Crash
From precipice of memories, flashbacks nostalgic billow,
Thinking of you as I ruminate, adoring the views below,
Where waves oceanic dance, leaping on windy tempos,
Propagating ambitions of...

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Categories: goodbyes, life, lost love, love,
Form: 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: goodbyes, analogy, christmas, goodbye, lost
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things