Best Sayonara Poems

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From « Kill Bill Vol. 1 »

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Two French girls in Paris
one aged thirteen
the other fourteen
together take...

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the bittersweet silent story of my life age
fifty and nine automatically rebroadcast 
     in indelible (yet never washed out) beige
indistinguishably linkedin, when counting 
     the last three of seventy somber orbitz, 
     signify...

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Respond feature blocked
                        Status quite clear indeed
               ...

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devastatingly, grievously, inconsolably, 
     got hexed, issued jilted livingsocial, a less
son learned to late, how maddeningly mess
say yon nick lee infuriated, not accepting press

sing ill fate, nor countenancing fatal injustice, 
refusing to curtsy fiendish inxs did piss 
her off (poisoned scorpion...

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I'll let it all fade
Remembrances about you
Forget your angelic smile
I've already admit it
Losing the competition...

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Sayonara to you my friend,
My heart is aching for this is the end;
I know, One day I'll see you again,
I can't help thinking what your life has been.

It's hard to be left alone in this world,
There's a lot of road to be taken and you're...

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Jack Bogan died last week, the last
of the Whippets, a garage band big 
in a small way back in the Sixties. 

The Whippets had a following 
in Chicago and its suburbs. 
They played high school dances,

holiday parties and graduations. 
Like other bands they believed
they would...

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Summer Sayonara


If you can hear
as I can now

the rose of noun
the bee of verb

the hive of mind
then you can hear

as I can now
everywhere the zither

of the siphonings
of day, everywhere 

the last letter of 
the alphabet


Donal Mahoney...

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Ever free to traverse my world
Yet shackled to an eleven year old promise
I donned a platinum cloak atop a living mountain
Physically high, emotionally low

I held two pairs of hands
While my heart beat out a painful rhythm
A handshake that formed my first friendship
And a typed message...

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It's time to depart
I'll treasure those memories
I'm very thankful
Those happiness and sadness
I'll never forget those days...

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I’m starting to fade
Forget all the retentions
Start for a new day
Even I didn’t success
I’ve already admit it...

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I think I might just turn about
and proudly walk away
I think I might just strut right out
without another word to say

Keep my calm, maintain my poise
Perhaps it’s best that way
Lips pressed tight, there’ll be no noise
As quiet as the break of day

I’ll leave my pride...

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SAYONARA SONG ON LUSCIOUS LIPS

The cold sun sinks slow in the vermilion void
Reels of cirrus cloud on crimson ripples creep
Tell the homing birds how much they enjoyed
To fly free in the swath of serene sky so deep.

The tender touch of trembling twilight gleam
Incisive invasion of...

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Nothing cuts as deep
as a back that’s turned

Denying your existence
—all bridges burned

(The New Room: October, 2022)...

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We bury the pain we brought
And dance it away in ballads from lands,
far, far away
We take the pain
And turn it to sweet resolution
As dawn turns to dusk
The melodies fill us with warmth,
that wrap us like fresh hay
And we say Sayonara, dear sorrow
Don't come back again
For...

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