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Goodbye Poems | Examples of Goodbye Poetry

Goodbye Poems - Examples of all types of goodbye poetry to share and read. This list of goodbye poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of goodbye poetry. This list of works about goodbye is an excellent resource for examples on how to write goodbye poems.
Premium Member Tomorrow Never Comes
Somethings are better done to day – tomorrow never comes like mending fences and pitching hay meal on the table and time to pray grace in the morning at the end of day remind those special someones just how much you love them do it without...Read the rest...
Categories: farewell, fate, goodbye, inspirational
Form: Free verse



Burning Brisk
Love’s flicker fizzles Hearts apart, souls within Salient shade fades flames...Read the rest...
Categories: emotions, feelings, goodbye, heartbreak,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Tangerine Sunsets
I love the end of the day, when the sun want to climb into bed. The moon will be rising soon, showing off it's big bright face. The white clouds, are turning a dark gray. Some flying so high, as if...Read the rest...
Categories: day, flower, goodbye, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Split
So, can you afford this place by yourself? Yeah, I did the maths. ­Okay, I’ll take...Read the rest...
Categories: goodbye, humor, woman,
Form: Free verse
No Means No
Sorry sir but I decline Any of your pick up lines I am here to just relax Your obnoxious to the max Pushing all your charms on me Why can't you just let me be Your company I do not want Or...Read the rest...
Categories: goodbye, leaving, rude,
Form: Rhyme



The Heartache of Farewell
The heartache of farewell Comes in layers and degrees of torment and suffering Some good and Bad, some may say it is all good in the end But regardless of platitudes and positive thinking after reflection at the...Read the rest...
Categories: farewell, goodbye, heartbreak, loss,
Form: Free verse
I wish you love
I'm gonna miss you I'm no gonna lie I hope someone kiss you good night I hope someone love you in your life and that you never live again that hell you left behind. Jessica...Read the rest...
Categories: goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Family Home
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is a sold sign on the lawn, In front of the house where I was born. Our family home where roots run deep, With connections to cherish, to hold, to keep. So many memories etched within, Though the images...Read the rest...
Categories: family, goodbye, home, moving
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Final Demand
There has been a conflict between us crazy rivals and these naughty mouths; we haven't been honest! It's the final demand, take back the gift that you already sent; apologize to make up or quickly pack up your things in the closet! Your tears...Read the rest...
Categories: goodbye, anger, betrayal, break up,
Form: Lyric
La Muse Bouche
I say to le "grand fromage". You and your pastiche attachè. You with all your rakish, cliche. You think you're so Debonair. You with another au pair. You and one more rendezvous. You again it's déjà vu. You and another faux pas. You...Read the rest...
Categories: french, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
An elders time
Age cuts like a knife Wrinkled hands can't work forever The young need space soon I walk out of sight As a blizzard closes in My memory stays warm The night feels so cold Stars cannot pierce this storm Waves hold...Read the rest...
Categories: goodbye,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Vulnerable
Vulnerable The only flower In a field of weeds The wind is how'ling A strong,violent breeze A drop of water On the desert sand So lost and so a Lone, just like I am I am so exposed Like I have no skin I've just...Read the rest...
Categories: break up, goodbye, loneliness,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Mama Has Left
Mama has left She is no longer alive She left Mother Earth She is in the cemetery Mom is further on She is, here and there, really Mother is gone And no longer here With us, under the sun Mommy is in Heaven She looks...Read the rest...
Categories: death, earth, funeral, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Weight
The chain, it weighs down my very soul Taken and shackled, till I’m very old No one can understand what they see Everyone’s way too wrapped up in their greed I push and pull against my restraints Ignoring the fear...Read the rest...
Categories: goodbye, conflict, dark, endurance, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Don't Come To My Funeral
Don't come, do not come Do not come to my funeral Do not come to my burial Stay home in a quiet room To read my God-given poems Be inspired and turn them into songs. You were absent in my life When...Read the rest...
Categories: betrayal, funeral, goodbye, grave,
Form: Rhyme

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