Farewell Goodbye Poems

No Mark
by Michael R. Burch

A wave implodes, 
impaled upon
impassive rocks...

this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...

you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds...

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THE DRAMA
THE PAIN
THE HURT
NO MORE
CALLING OF THE NAMES
THE PAYBACKS
WHAT A SHAME
NO MORE NEGATIVITY
LET THE POSITIVITY FLOW IN THE ROOM
LET THE POSITIVITY FLOW IN THE ATMOSPHERE
SURROUNDED...

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Stage Fright
by Michael R. Burch

To be or not to be?
In the end Hamlet
opted for naught.

NOTE: I interpret Hamlet's famous "To be or not to be"...

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Thoughts hither, slither like a snake,
          Thru fetid weeds to reach your lips,
   ...

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You will receive a reward for your deception, 
You will always be loved by me. 
You don't need to Serenade me anymore. 
I know you've...

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Heaven’s light shines brighter today
And its gates are opened extra wide
They’re preparing for another angel
To be seated by God’s side.
The trumpets blow louder
And the angel’s...

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WAS IT, LOVE?
WAS IT GENUINE?
WAS IT THOUGHTFUL?
WAS IT CARELESS?
WAS IT QUESTIONABLE?
WAS IT FOREVER?
WAS IT TEMPORARY?
WAS IT KIND?
WAS IT MIND?
WAS IT ME?
WAS IT THEM?
WAS IT A...

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i o u
by Michael R. Burch

i might have said it
but i didn’t

u might have noticed
but u wouldn’t

we might have been us
but we couldn’t

u might respond
but...

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Your smile has faded
And your eyes no longer see
The things that you loved
And what attracted you to me

I see only now
Your disappointment and hurt
And your...

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You sat them on an icy oak table–
the package of my father’s ashes–
like an old-fashioned box cake.

Your dusty, branch-colored fingers
gripped a pile of pearly white...

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My mind a thick fog, a thick fog so deep, 
it threatens to submerge my thoughts. 
I know not why, or how, or even who,
for...

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she came from the town of keokuk
  for what she did, she charged a buck 
    or sometimes two;
everyone said she...

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Eulogy

Sing eulogy, O wind, 
Crying out the sorrow,
Howling deep within your zephyr,
For branches where you once entwined
Your restless fingers
Into a joyful melody of rustling boughs
In...

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Gratitude for saying farewell to disquiet
Obstacles faced for years from sorrow-
Opulent magnetism because I feared
Death would lament my heart again;
But I saw my medallion horizon...

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The pocket is in the pocket
The pocket is in the purse
The purse is in the bag
And the bag is in the purse
One dollar for a...

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Forgiveness I cannot ask
For the sins of my past
The regrets are to deep
All I can do is weep

Time has no cure
As the pain I endure
Comes...

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He stands on the cliff of the broken edge
Waiting on someone to come and bury the dead
Night has made its final decree, and the villain...

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We know that life is a journey.
And Death is also a continuation of the journey.
As it marks the end of the body's journey.
And the new...

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I am still here waiting
Waiting for something to happen
I am still here waiting
Waiting for you to come
Christmas has come and gone
And here I am still...

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Bye
Goodbye
Goodbye O the 2019
You are not old year
I couldn't cross you
But you crossed me away

Today
On the hatch of rising Sun
First dawn of New Year
White snow...

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