Hope Farewell Poems

Can't Complain,
Oh what a Sleuth,
Show some shame,
Oh what a Sleuth,
Lurk around,
Oh what a Sleuth,
Surrounding Sounds,
Oh what a Sleuth,
Left behind,
Oh what a Sleuth,
It will be mine,
Some...

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Well hello Mister Finnegan

You've come back as a friend again

It's been so long since we've seen you

Don't you know Mister Finnegan

All your bad luck will...

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I am writing these letters to someone who no longer exists for me and if she ever did, she is lost somewhere in a past...

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I hope you lose sleep
All these things you did to me
I'm done keeping peace...

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We find ourselves with you in time, 
Thoughts of you are roaming our minds
Angels playing music at the Gate
Heaven will be Home; let's call it...

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Your truth feels like a derailed train on my backbone and below me, a ravine who knows nothing apart from what has been thrown down...

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Retirement
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Stop working now
The hopeless boss
Who gives you no hope
The nine-to-five grind
Is over now
Retirement
Exit, exit excite
Up, up away
Banjo your mango
Man goes
Peddle your medal
On your salad...

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Some hearts will go on, 
Braving the storms, the pain,
Even though you’re gone,
You’re there in ways I can’t explain.

Some of those who believe,
Will speak of...

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Home for sale
Home on fire
Fire in the sky
Fire and brimstone
Brimstone and sulfur
Brimstone and infernal dioxide
Dioxide evangelism
Dioxide emissions
Emissions aggress as amorphous
Emissions control
Control of ourselves (and other...

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The end is nigh.
As the sun goes down 
on my life aboard a Titanic-like ship,
infinitesimal time 
is being sucked into death's vacuum.
Amid all the frenzy...

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I recall many brights stars
but no moon
for lack of guiding light
we will sink soon

I see ladies 
with much fancier clothes
lowered with room to spare 
in...

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A year has gone by, let it go,
Embrace the new year as it comes;
Past skirmishes, and slights, let go,
Let’s greet happiness in our homes;

Another year...

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Astonishing, the level of acceptance, 
convinced through the horrors 
Addiction, unknown to others 
within the shadows 
Pride's last thread of hope. 

Refusing most certain transition...

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It's so hard for me to say this to you 
I wanted things to be different but they're not
And my passive aggressive opinions must be...

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In the shadows, I feel the bonds grow,
Attachments so deep, emotions bow
Their absence sparks a flame
Love and friendship that lasts the same

As they depart their...

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