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Farewell Poems | Examples of Farewell Poetry

Your divorce
With this demand you hoped to evoke in me the fear that made even your bones cold from exposer frail and bitter the sound they made as they rattled around at the knees. But You can not own even this for the words were not yours to speak of dissolution and disparities. and still you uttered such falsehoods an attempt to hurt...

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Categories: farewell, betrayal, bullying, deep, divorce,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Boots of Spanish Leather
Dylan Song Tribute Poetry Contest - Oliver Mckeithan June 11, 2025 Boots of Spanish Leather From Barcelona, she shipped me boots of Spanish leather, with a note that said, "So you might get to understand Bob Dylan better." And that's the last word from her I ever heard, and sadly, we never listened to Bob Dylan again ~ together....

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Categories: farewell, journey, sad love,
Form: Rhyme



You are an Echo
You are the echo at the bottom of my Spotify playlist, The song I forgot to delete but skip immediately, Because it hurts too much to listen to. You are the echo of a story not told by me, Twisting each time it is retold, Less true each time, less you. You exist as an echo in my fading memories, Vanishing, tarnishing,...

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Categories: break up, farewell, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sympathies
Forget about it Don’t think about it It’s not important Put it out of your mind Things I have been told Advice for the lovelorn The bereaved The broken hearted The lonely Your love has gone away forever They have left you behind They have stopped you in your tracks Well meaning friends Want you to forget them Get on with your life But the hole in your...

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Categories: farewell, 12th grade, bereavement, break
Form: Free verse
The Fall of the Titan
He rose not on wings of silence, But engines forged in fire— Steel dreams and starlit visions, A man whom gods admire. Elon, the Architect of Futures, Builder of wheels and sky, Touched the moon with fingers bare, And taught machines to fly. He tamed the pulse of lightning, Made Mars a whispered name, Challenged thrones of old decay, And dared the gods of fame. But greatness...

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Categories: farewell,
Form: Free verse



Far Apart
You are the light that I've been longing, but the longer we stay together, the more I want to stay apart. I keep thinking.. I am the darkness and you're the light. maybe, we're better far apart....

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Categories: break up, farewell, poems,
Form: Free verse
My brain does not know my name
Melting luck of what I am just a burning pot on the stove, gone too far beyond repair, not sure if I even care, used to stare at my past, long gone way too fast, like summer meets the ice, my bones know who i am, my brain does not know my name, take me as far as the pain can allow my hallucinations, no...

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Categories: addiction, body, creation, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Sad Farewell
"The clouds parted like the pursed lips of desire". After many cold winters, they met again, Under the poplar tree on a starry moonlit night. Though they had planned it over many a time, It came to fruition after such long lapse of years. Once they loved as no lovers could ever love. In devotion, never they faltered,...

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Categories: farewell, destiny, first love, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
You
I know You'd return every winter, To remind me Of all the frozen nights. But, With the commence of spring And the warmth of wind, I'd be unmoved Whether you stay or not....

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Categories: change, farewell, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Tu Esencia
Aquel sinsonte que se posaba en el balcon, apenas trina. Al no escuchar tú voz sutil cantando sin secar. Y esos rosales que ayer regabas con delirio, hoy se marchitan. Pues ya de ti no queda ni la fragancia de tu esencia en nuestro hogar....

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Categories: farewell, angst, bird, break up,
Form: Free verse
Crashing Paper Airplanes
Circling me like a shark in open water, I wave my arms so someone sees And for so long you never bothered To see the huntress I can be. You said you’d always try to see eye to eye, But your irises have turned to black And in my own I stalked out every single lie And your facade begins to fade...

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Categories: farewell, love hurts,
Form: Lyric
Words Unspoken
Words like those cut from the throat of the robin Breast red with pride, the words cast out by the one I love. There is no bravery in them; I have no shield to protect myself from them as they are thrown at me. Those are the words that instantly turn lover to stranger Whose thin lips silently...

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Categories: farewell, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On Ebony Wings
I wrote verses on sullen wings of a lonely lark romantic phrases I had written in perfect rhyme but the avian flew off when night grew dark I wrote no further poetry for the longest time A beautiful blue jay then landed upon my lawn I wrote such sweet prose on his sapphire wings He spent many nights but at the...

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Categories: farewell,
Form: Rhyme
The Life I never lived
I have travelled upon the earth and get lost in work I have painted the covers of the universe and mingle With animals in the dirt and have witness the bridges carried away in the sea and rough waves come chasing after me but I hoist myself upon big ships before the thunder rolls...

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Categories: farewell, adventure, america, animal, beauty,
Form: Prose
Limitless
Limitless - - - - - - Ignore once too many times, short of the same lies, so feelings did linger then die, cut of ties and romance do blind, the limiting void we call lives... ...

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Categories: farewell, absence, addiction, anger, beauty,
Form: Rhyme

Specific Types of Farewell Poems

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