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Goodbye Narrative Poems

These Goodbye Narrative poems are examples of Narrative poems about Goodbye. These are the best examples of Narrative Goodbye poems written by international poets.

Peace Be With You by Michelle Rensburg

Peace be with you
are the words she said
Flowers placed appropriately 
Saying goodbye to the dead.

She wasn't false
And yet, it wasn't true
Because there were things
She just...

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Categories: care, funeral, grave, grief,

Idol Of Insecurity by Roger Byrd

So eerie, I was fearing I was in the pity of envy & that wasn't me to need something that meant nothing... My eyes are...

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Categories: depression,

Stay by Colette Dright

As I sat on the ledge looking up to the sky
I asked my Father the W's
The when's, the what's, the where's, the why's

So many places...

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Categories: change, farewell, goodbye, leaving,

Embracing life by Lifes' Tapestry

Feeling elated as I await the plane to take us to the exotic destination; Serengeti.
Africa, a wild inhospitable landscape of hunger. 
A time and space...

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Categories: africa,

What Lovely Years by Celine Tran

Prologue
When you take this first step,
think - what lies ahead.
Both smiles and laughter
tender, loving ever-after.
The road will be rough,
but you will not bend
for the prize...

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Categories: abuse, boyfriend, break up,

The Abandon Farm by Christine Phillips

I have always wanted something wonderful out of life
But my mother said there is always a price
It has nothing to do with land, money or...

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Categories: betrayal, change, corruption, destiny,

The Peasants Truck by Christine Phillips

Everybody moved out of the country to get a taste of the shining city
Ripe banana, ripe plums, are perishing in Uncle Sam’s broiling sun
I cannot...

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Categories: angel, blessing, business, character,

A Good Father, Part I by David Welch

Harper Lukowski paced down the sidewalk,
the day was done, he was on his way home.
His fried Jaquan, twenty years his junior,
chattered with him as the...

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Categories: growth, motivation, parents, prayer,

The Loneliest Place To Die by Jonathan French

Alone, naked, no life jacket, no hope,
treading water on the vast Pacific.
Drifting flotsam with thoughts;
nothing to feel but his own form
and shrivelling, salty-liquid apparel.
He could...

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Categories: death, loneliness,

Bluetooth fools the buffoon by Robbie McClellan

So I had an appointment today to inspect a motorcycle in Stevenson. I pulled up to the house and walked to the front door then...

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Categories: anxiety, confusion, crazy, funny,

Mama's Gun And A Postage Stamp by curtis johnson

The postage stamp had now fallen off the envelope but not lost. Tucked away in the box was the stamp that authorized a letter from...

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Categories: america, chicago, history, mother,

The Gristmill by curtis johnson

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Categories: childhood, for teens, parents,

Let Me Love You - Let Me Save You by Kristin Cook

You held my heart in your hands
And forced me to take it back 
I wore your cross on my back 
Crying let me love you,...

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Categories: divorce, feelings, goodbye, heartbreak,

THE RENDEZVOUS by VIJAI PANT

“Emotions
These are for the weak ones
I’m strong
And about myself
I cannot be wrong”
So she said
And so she made him believe
He, who would always keep,
His heart, before...

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Categories: desire, love, lust, romance,

GATEKEEPERS OF THE LAND OF THE FREE by jack cooper


From what I have seen
America is a well-oiled machine
Our military always ready to fight
Together with so much might
Leaving their homes night after night
Saying goodbye believing...

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Categories: military,

Why do lovebirds cry by RONELO COLLAMAR

Why do lovebirds cry?
By: Ronelo Collamar
Two lovebirds bade goodbye
Amidst situations of hopelessness
Tearing each other's lucky day
All of a sudden, both were in dismay.
Beau's song was...

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Categories: bird, emotions, lonely, loss,

RIPPLES by VIJAI PANT

She ‘wanders’ with ‘intent’ that way
Her inside seems to be in turmoil-
Regrets, disappointments, griefs and complaints
Life apparently quite unjust to her
Eyes the still waters of...

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Categories: absence, feelings, goodbye, how

No Title by Christine Phillips

I have slept but I have not slept
I have not slept but I have slept
For the first time in two years
I slept without a word...

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Categories: america, betrayal, character, emotions,

Big Fish Calling Me To The Sea Part 2 by Christine Phillips

Big boats traffic people from pillar to post only heaven knows where it goes
Something fishy is transpiring in the sea, there is a unique smell...

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Categories: abuse, adventure, courage, encouraging,

My Day Part 2 continued From Part 1 by Christine Phillips

Continued  From My Day Part1
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Just as I thought of it a little old woman stumbled up beside me and greeted me with a funny...

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Categories: adventure, appreciation, beauty, blessing,