Best Leave Taking Poems

We’d said goodbye, were at the door
When my favorite little boy
Came running with just one last hug,
The kind I most enjoy.

“You can’t leave, Nana. I won’t let you!”
Clinging to me, tight.
I’m sure he knew I couldn’t stay
But hoped with all his might.

Such moments cannot be...

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Leave Taking
by Michael R. Burch 
 
Brilliant leaves abandon battered limbs
to waltz upon ecstatic winds
until they die.
 
But the barren and embittered trees,
lament the frolic of the leaves
and curse the bleak November sky . . .
 
Now, as I watch the leaves' high flight
before the...

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