Best Leaving Poems
Below are the all-time best Leaving poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of leaving poems written by PoetrySoup members
Leaving WalesWales to me is her Celtic tribal history,
Wales to me is walks upon her shores.
Wales to me is her druids, saints, and mystery,
the soil I...
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Categories:
leaving, longing, love,
Form:
Lyric
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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Categories:
leaving, break up, conflict, goodbye,
Form:
Free verse
Too good to ever lastToo good - to ever last suggested bpm 80
Vs1
When we first met, I never thought
that you could ever love me...
You were the...
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Categories:
leaving, break up, feelings, heartbreak,
Form:
Lyric
Kiss the RainI'm leaving now, but here is a reminder
'Twill bring to you the days we walked through rain
So when you wish to feel my hand in...
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Categories:
leaving, girl, people, rain, romantic,
Form:
Quatrain
A Last Poem for You, My MateA Last Poem for You, My Mate
If Death comes calling in colorful spring
I hope it will come in the month of May
When our garden is...
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Categories:
death, fate, leaving, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Butterfly in My PocketI have a butterfly in my pocket,
that will never fly again.
When I think back to yesterday,
it’s a pretty reminder of my pain.
Butterflies aren’t meant for...
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Categories:
angst, farewell, leaving,
Form:
Quatrain
The Last Love Letter To the WestI can't recall
the day you left
Empty words going west
...
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Categories:
deep, feelings, heart, leaving,
Form:
Free verse
I Need Your Help DaddyI’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:
leaving, absence, angst, cry, dad,
Form:
Elegy
Soul mates solaceWhen my final shadows cling on desperately
Where I fight formidable battles
to merely hold the light
I send you loving vibrations
and soul sustenance
Deep from the cathedral
of one...
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Categories:
leaving, art, bereavement, body, care,
Form:
Free verse
Nevermore Will Raven Return *Note: A 60-year annual tradition that involved a mysterious visitor leaving three
roses at the grave of writer Edgar Allan Poe on the...
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Categories:
leaving, mysteryhouse, loss, birthday, grave,
Form:
Narrative
where barren branches touch newborn leavesScurrying on my way home, a little leaf catches my eye, and I am compelled yet again to slow down.
a whirlwind of thoughts
compete with swaying...
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Categories:
absence, introspection, leaving, life,
Form:
Haibun
Changing Seasons autumn winds whisper
turning over a new leaf
requires letting go...
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Categories:
fear, freedom, friendship, leaving,
Form:
Haiku
The SparrowHe called it love and his captivating way,
She called it fear and longed for the day.
All alone she cried those bitter nights,
...
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Categories:
leaving, husband, lost love, sad,
Form:
Narrative
You Let the Moment PassEternity within your grasp
My plea? To undo the clasp
Let Desire wash away
Tomorrow and yesterday
Every other thought and dream
Meaningless I make them seem
Had you let the...
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Categories:
leaving, sad love,
Form:
Rhyme
Pearls of Wisdom
When it is time for me to pass away
I’ll pack and leave; I dare not overstay.
But ere I drift out slowly with the tide
I’d wish...
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Categories:
giving, leaving,
Form:
Rhyme
Friendship's OmissionAs I
Soak in hummingbird’s exhale
I feel tragic sonatas
Trying to chain
Trying to crucify
My sedentary grip on instability
I smell the repugnant commoner
Blasting scattered shots
Against yesterday’s decent
I became...
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Categories:
forgiveness, friendship, leaving, life,
Form:
Free verse
BeautifulLusting the passions of a secret desire
Unwinding the mystery of my needs
Funerals are for the future
Internment I ask be deferred
Timeless is my youth
Useless is my...
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Categories:
leaving, autumn, beauty, death, french,
Form:
Acrostic
Armadilly Billy, The Slingshot KidsterArmadilly came galloping into Troll Lake, bent on seeking a new life, to unwind.
He’d rode out of the Badlands, leaving only a trail of blowing...
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Categories:
leaving, adventure, fantasy, funny, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
For Two Timing HusbandsHow many tears must fall from brown eyes before I lay me down to sleep.
Where hurtful dreams of betrayal and lies hide in shadows they...
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Categories:
leaving, anger, betrayal, break up,
Form:
Couplet
Supermarket check-outHad she looked back at me
Even for just a second ...
Our encounter might have been the stuff of tabloid frenzy.
But she left quickly a...
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Categories:
absence, leaving, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Farewell To This LifeTime for me to say
My last goodbye.
If this mind and outlook of mine
Won't change once I leave.
Then I may attempt
What I've been thinking of
From within...
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Categories:
depression, leaving, moving on,
Form:
Free verse
For Within Thine Eyes, I See Love's Eternal Gaze - a collaboration with Robert Lindley
How shall I, let your kind and most tender heart go
with its immense depths, sweet kisses, resplendent glow.
I could do no such, no more than...
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Categories:
leaving, heartbreak, hope, i love
Form:
Rhyme
THIS ISN'T LIVING
I see you sitting there
Night after night
Living someone else's passions
Worried about some stranger's future
Borrowing some guy's dreams
Involved in another couple's romance
As if you were so...
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Categories:
leaving, boyfriend, break up, how
Form:
Free verse
Muted LoveNot this day
No
My mouth shall not say
The words that linger
Trailing broken syllables
From memory bay
Without meaning
I cannot form them
Even as I pray
Turning in guttural...
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Categories:
feelings, hate, heartbreak, leaving,
Form:
Rhyme
I'm so tired of the liesI'm so tired of the lies
I've heard... all of these stories before...
I say...it's time to show you the door...
You're so good at... telling your lies
but,...
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Categories:
leaving, break up, farewell, games,
Form:
Lyric