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Farewell Poems | Examples of Farewell Poetry

Premium Member After I'm Gone
Fading from this earth I am A mere shadow in the sky. As my image disappears Through the white clouds flying high. Do not weep because you see In your heart with you I stay, Locked within your memory. ...

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Categories: death, farewell, image,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Half Past Summer, Two Months Till Fall
Sweet summer is kissing goodbye, embracing the harvest moon nights, summer birds bid adieu and fly, sweet summer is kissing goodbye, earth’s bosom heavy with a sigh, tears of maple glow in moonlight, sweet summer is kissing goodbye, embracing the harvest moon nights. Half Past Summer, Two Months Till Fall Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Andrea Dietrich ...

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Categories: farewell, nature, summer,
Form: Triolet



Premium Member Grief, the Hidden Door
Grief is not a wound. It is a door... Hidden behind the tapestry We spent a life weaving. It opens... When we can no longer lie....

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Categories: bereavement, farewell, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse
In One City
I know a funeral when I walk into one I can tell between a funeral and a burial They are two entirely different artworks One is done on grand canvas, with drunken strokes Of sashaying brush and bleeding paints; The other is done on mere sand, with foot and hand, Forming sandcastles built by toddlers. I know too well because I have...

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Categories: community, death, farewell, funeral,
Form: Elegy
On Returning Leftover Peppermint to My Neighbor
Digestion liquesces peppermint. I chew the leaves for both of us, an aftertaste when stillness is an afterthought. Dust gleams like the raised plastic on a debit card. Winds seem to bank and then burst through a window in a venetian blind-slatted sunshine; bars slit across you on the floor. Strangers make front entrances where shoes scuff the rug. The briefest, jagged arcs...

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Categories: farewell, bereavement, community, confusion, death
Form: Free verse



Premium Member twilight tree hiku
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Categories: farewell, retirement,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Hazel Pity
It's a pity ~ such a pity ~ That behind those eyes, Lies, nothing but hazel pretty. It's a shame ~ a great shame ~ There's zilch we share In common, Remotely similar, or the same. It's a heartache ~ a real pain ~ Each other's hearts, Both lives left stained, Losing more than we thought Possible, ~and~ ever would've Gained. ....

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Categories: farewell, beautiful, break up, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member the possession of a vessel
the possession of a vessel a cradle call a steady fall a empty cost and all's lost a candle care a random share a fullness last and all's cast a constant claim a longing name a least of more and all's before a costly care a vessel rare an emptied full and all's pull a cradle claim a constant name a candle fair a...

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Categories: farewell, absence, brother, confidence, dedication,
Form: Free verse
A Pause in the Poetry
I’m not writing poems anymore. Somewhere along the way, I feel like I lost the poet in me---- the spark, the soul, the words. I’m choosing to start fresh, to rediscover myself beyond verses and rhymes. Thank you for all the appreciation, love, and support you've shown me. I hope you understand this new beginning I’m...

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Categories: dream, farewell, future, growing
Form: Free verse
Betwixt The Between
Writing in margins where words never go The meaning bipolar whose ink doesn’t show Living inceptive divorced from the light Married to emptiness — unstringing my kite (The New Room: July, 2025) ...

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Categories: farewell,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Farewell To Fair Play
The Gilded Age by Mark Twain in his 1873 novel /The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized the era's materialism and political corruption is just what this King has ordered in his Megabill —Poetess There was economic prosperity, tho unconscionable social inequality as a few “robber barons” tycoons amassed great fortunes, whereas degradation inflicted dire poverty, mass...

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Categories: farewell, freedom, independence day,
Form: Free verse
When Autumn Speaks
When leaves drop heavy as unsent Letters upon the dampened earth, I taste the copper in cold air— Your warmth dissolved in autumn's dearth. October fog wraps ash-grey threads Around the words we left for dead, Each syllable a weighted stone That settles in my chest alone. But winds grow cold where shadows climb, Where promises dissolve in time, And hours spill like wine uncorked— Each...

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Categories: farewell, cute love,
Form: Tercet
Premium Member It Was All an Illusion
All a mirage, an aberrant illusion acceptance in America professionally, socially we even became sought-after marriage partners… Educated people seemed...

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Categories: america, farewell, history, jewish,
Form: Free verse
No One Understands
How in a twinkle of an eye, Your life so make a lot of sense. Now, the world heave a nasty sigh... What an atmosphere with such tense! Insane to ever imagine... The plain sky once sunny turn loosed, How wealth to death has no bargain! Life would have got hade's gut seduced. The sunny sky soon faded out, While love just become...

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Categories: farewell, age, car, death, family,
Form: Rhyme
A Seat Taken, A Spirit Kept
O classroom once alive with gentle voices, Where morning greetings bloomed so bright and clear, I leave you now—stripped of certain choices, Unheard, unseen, dismissed through quiet fear. The silence came—a shadow down the hall, Erasing names without a single word. No answer rose to break the rising wall, No hand reached out, no empathy was stirred. The leader’s crown slipped heavy from...

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Categories: farewell, education, grief,
Form: Elegy

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