Farewell Memorial Day Poems

“Today You Leave for College”
written by Michelle Lynn LeBlanc
2023/09/03


Today you leave for college 
We will certainly miss you so 
The years have gone by so...

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A day
That I’ll always remember
A very somber DAY
A very sad day
A day to ponder
A day to wonder
A day
Not like any other day
A very unusual day
A...

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Memorial

It’s where I’ve fallen and where I lay:
Ashes to ashes, cradle to grave.
Dust to dust and cold as clay.

Where stone is chiseled and caskets draped
Where...

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Time has come to say farewell.
I say thanks to you as well.

It was nice for me to stay
Here and work and learn each day....

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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The celestial light is about to go and escapes;
As dawn enters, and cover it with darkness.
She was able to finish mysteries, with less air to...

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Athenian Epitaphs

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato

Does my...

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Dear Brother,

How I wish I could have known you, you wanted to be, the brother with life so planned, so carefree not these memories of...

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Respect was Aretha’s request
Every good soul deserves the best
She lived her life
Pure and right
Ever honest and true
Creating music for me and you
To celebrate her life...

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Their years have slowly slipped away,
Our nation’s heroes with heads of grey
Once strong bodies, now weathered and weak,
‘tis’ the solitude of grave’s-rest, they seek.

Willingly went...

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Who will shirk me of this load 
The garment so heavy I'm weak
Heaven in cry, world in bleak
Like wet rag, cloth I wear
The sorrow, the...

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Farewell my beloved friend, I'll be with you until the end
Two hearts, two minds, we all must be, whatever it is the world will see
My...

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Packing up your things today
 No way that you can stay
Your time to fly away
 Keep your demons at bay
Not making any headway
 Tired of...

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ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
by
Robert E. Welch, Sr.
May 18, 2016

The Honor Guard goes slowly by
As another’s laid to rest.
The bugle’s call hangs in the sky
Farewell to America’s...

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To never see your face again 
To lose the map of your body
To misplace memory itself 

For example   
Today I lost your nose...

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