The many funerals of a black girlHow many funerals of ones self can someone have before there is nothing left
Don't answer
It's rhetorical anyway
Funeral number 1
A piece of her hair
A symbol of when they would stop and stare
At her hair
When they would make her life a living nightmare
Until she became too aware
Until It became too much to bear
Until she silenced...
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Categories:
goodbye, beauty, color, daughter, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
GoodbyeIt lingers.
Not on the lips. Lower.
In the fiber of the tongue,
in the spasming depths of fear,
where words no longer light paths,
but only fester in ancestral silences,
like icons submerged in sacred rubble,
beneath the cracked beams of a church welded shut from within,
where even devils can no longer enter.
Parting is not spoken.
It is torn between teeth,
swallowed...
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Categories:
goodbye,
Form: Free verse
No More
When you were constantly dismissive of me,
making me wonder what happened to the man I married,
I remained a loving wife, hoping you’d see
ME again and banish the burden of hurt I carried.
When you began to spend more time with friends,
some of whom you wouldn’t name, night after night,
did you never feel you had reason to...
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Categories:
goodbye, love hurts,
Form: Quatrain
VeilonDon't go please I beg
Be strong girl you said
You left me in the med
Took ahead your steps
Tell me why please !
I dreamt abt sitting with you beside river
I want you to come closer
Wanna put my head on your shoulder
Just wanna be your lover
I thought I found you as a treasure
But you...
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Categories:
goodbye, anxiety, desire, destiny, feelings,
Form: Couplet
My first goodbyeIt wouldn't be the first time
we said goodbye.
It wouldn't be the last time
You made me cry.
All that I want is gone
you left me here to die.
All that I've longed for is gone
you never said goodbye
It should have been the last thing you ever did
You slit my wrists and stole my kids.
LET ME GO!...
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Categories:
goodbye, africa, grief, simple, wife,
Form: Free verse
Gathering at the cemetary
It was a somber cloudy day, sadness weighed heavy on us all. The family gathered to pay final respects. Gregorian chant filled the air as we looked up to heaven. We were burying a good man. He had been a role model, a loving husband and a caring father.
the finality
painfully sinking in
goodbyes surreal...
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Categories:
death, goodbye, grief, loss,
Form: Haibun
A Last Whisper to UsEven when the sky is cracked and grey,
Adoring arms can’t hold what’s meant to part.
Ghosts of your voice dissolve into the day,
Left behind, a hollowed aching heart.
Oceans of grief drown the words unsaid,
Fractured time blurs love into decay.
Grief gnaws softly where our dreams have fled,
Memories fade like ghosts at bay.
Days pass, but the ache still...
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Categories:
goodbye, grief,
Form: Rhyme
The Edge of GoodbyeI 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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Categories:
goodbye, courage,
Form: Free verse
Just One Thing to Leverage
She believed her Barbie's and Ken's
had shared a love far more complex
than any feelings they'd expressed --
AND dolls couldn't even self-dress!!!
She knew they were a mistake -
one she wanted them to address.
Her thoughts led to a request -
they both take a fear of change test.
Pleased to speak free, she confessed
being a part...
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Categories:
goodbye, anxiety, break up, feelings,
Form: Free verse
LostI lost my beautiful dog today
I lost my dearest friend
She took with her
a piece of my heart
I’ll never feel again
I know you’ll say
there will come a day
when your heart is filled with another
but you didn’t know
my Chuli girl
A dog unlike any other
I’ve never cried
or felt...
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Categories:
goodbye, animal, death, dog, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Goodbye, HelloMy family
It's time to fly
And so, I know
I'll say goodbye
My dear beloved
While I did try
My love I know
I'll say goodbye
All that is fine
I don't know why
Must always go
I'll say goodbye
As fire and flames
Reign from the sky
Far down below
I'll say goodbye
And while I say
It's time to die
I'll say hello
You'll say goodbye...
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Categories:
goodbye, hello,
Form: Rhyme
TAKE BACK DECEMBER(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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Categories:
break up, farewell, goodbye,
Form: Lyric
To Karin: A Plain Beyond the CityCoal-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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Categories:
farewell, goodbye, imagery, lost
Form: Free verse
- Don't Cry Little One -
Categories:
angel, care, flying, goodbye,
Form: Senryu
In Memory OfSo 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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Categories:
goodbye, bereavement, death of a
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Goodbye Poems
Read wonderful goodbye poetry on the following sub-topics:
break up, coworker, cousin, dad, farewell, friend, funny, grandma, grandpa, her, him, love, retirement, saying, sister, student, teacher,
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