Farewell Poems | Examples of Farewell Poetry

I saw him in the corridor — my mind stopped for a moment, all my emotions rushing back, stunned, yet I kept walking. Once I was away, I crossed a wall — and broke down, tears flowing down my cheeks, words unsaid I couldn’t hold. I wanted to stay, to hold on to him, but I needed to go — to let go for my peace. I saw...

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(Verse 1) I remember the chill in the air, When you said goodbye, like you didn’t care. Your words cut deep, left me bare, But I stayed silent, pretending I was fine. You walked away, said you needed space, That freedom would bring you back to grace. But in your eyes, I saw a trace Of something we couldn’t leave behind. (Pre-Chorus) I thought I’d...

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Like some dark frail bird she quivered and fluttered there at my door one dark cold Advent night, swearing to return come the new year with a photo of Brandenburg Gate. Arms, hands, fingertips, eyes, then nothing between us but electrified space – her light tread descending the steps – my heart drawn downward by the diminishing sound. Sometimes still my heart is snared between winter a swirling hem and Brandenburg...

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Coal-brown smoke smudged lightly with hesitant fingers into the wet grey sky at the edges, a yellowing of dried grass scattered with copper berries fallen from their vines, a leaf spinning crazily on a breeze, a tentative parting of fingertips and a face turned slightly from mine – a profile obscured by dark hair – and eyes scan and count the pylons for something to do. The...

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I called you my Magyar princess because of your smoldering eyes and dark hair and maybe you were— or maybe just a woman who knew how to disappear while standing still. I got your number from your grandfather five years after you departed to visit the Brandenburg Gate with a promise to return in the spring. A Florida area code, and a man’s voice I...

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So, in so many ways past and present mesh, it's reminiscence of everything I have been through. I thought, I thought I had bid adieu. And then a poem from 2020. A soft laughter fill with tears, a glance A view from 2025 hello !! goodbye, hello ! again. I feel like I've met my long lost friend (...

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So many friends came to say goodbye Remember the good times, not going to cry You were such a part of everyone you knew A special someone for everything that makes up you Hard to accept that you are no longer here Keep waiting for the moment when you reappear It really hit me, hearing the songs you wrote Nobody else could...

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George Wendt was an actor and he starred in "Cheers". He loved to sit on that stool and drink plenty of beer. He starred in many shows and movies but will be best remembered as Norm Peterson. He attended Jesuit Rockhurst College and graduated with a B.A. in economics in 1971. After he lived for 76 years, we're saying...

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I’m awaiting in the port of my life for a sign From the world of those who have departed For I trust, my beloved, in angels And in that dead who has rise. I'm superstitious, that's why I believe in the phantoms And in the dreams where you appear to me I see you, my beloved, in a large field...

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Shadow's beauty sleeps alone within God's fragile ruins, As seasons wilt the flowering of a shrouded heart, Each sacrificial petal plucked before love bloomed, Flesh pricked by unknown ghosts I lovingly thought, I once knew. Unkissed pallid lips at dusk feel the warmth of frosted glass, As I watch soulless clouds stretch far beyond love's eyes, I wait for Death's beauty to reclaim my misplaced heart, With a...

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When someone first dies and leaves us, It’s hard to lift that sense of gloom, When their body is no longer with us, But their presence still fills the room. But within our treasured memories, We can recollect their smiling face, For in our heart-of-hearts we know, They are now in a much better place. ...

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They Fought for Their Country They Fought to Make It Free But Where Did They End up Not the Place They Expected To Be They Fought for Their Country with All Their Strength And Might But Where Did They End up Homeless and Living On the Streets at Night They Fought for Their Country for a Better Future And Life But Where...

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Mother, father are weeping Because the heavens didn’t send their heart a soul The wind, their house is breaking And the morning is very cold Outside they find With the earth in the sky That their sound is not here Nor is it nearby There's a train screaming angels to lower their heads And a cold concrete block reeking of death When no one was...

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Father I miss you I wish we were close You're not that far, we're in the same house We eat dinner together We converse by silence, You smile at me, fill the space with jokes and love That we both know I won't respond to. But we pretend, we all do, That we are a happy family. Like I don't just act like you don't exist. You...

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We are life unto death sealed in its hold when mortal limits fill a dateless urn, a worldly spirit in a spirit world for dust you are and to dust you return. To do and unto my lost cause to teach - did I not that nobility disgrace? Yet still you sought to seek, to...

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