Short Leave Taking Poems

Hello
Welcome, warm
Greeting, saluting, hailing
Salutation, address; farewell, toodle-loo
Parting, tearing, leave-taking
Sad, departure
Goodbye


May 22, 2021...

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  Surrounded by myriad friends
    at his leave-taking 
  surrendering his soul, to Whom
    and waiting,
               waiting for what...

  They clasped hands, freely hugged
    nodded knowingly
  While he waited, waited, for what ... 
    alone, insufferably alone...

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Today
September 30, 2020
By: Miracle Man

My mind is wrapped in times long past,
recapturing moments of what life has wrought.
Sensing that I’m nearing the end at last,
I’ll leave taking nothing but what I brought.

The footprints left will be as beacons for some,
for others, how quickly my tracks will fade.
The clock is something man can’t overcome,
But judgment requires each track be weighed.
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I know I'm going to hell
for eating this forbidden fruit
but before I say my farewell
let me leave taking the scenic route

 

I want to see the ashy trees
and the hell birds flying by
the crimson lava filled seas
with the stench of death's tide

 

I got to death's black doors
as a man of Haiti let me in
the mighty Cerberus roared
while I was burned for every sin

 

And here I stand flaming hot
in a place with no love
my soul lay here to rot
with a demon named Beelzebub...

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Night rewrites day, transforms the blues
with ink-wash, urges me to forget 

grapples, tasks, drudgery,  
hard surfaces and hardened people as all things 

soften, lighten, blur— even gravity pulls less 
as if the world’s core has pardoned the hefty afternoon.
  
Sheets pouch this body, pillows 
accept every sigh.  Sleep is a leave-taking,

a poetic restoration of sense and mindfulness.
Faultless, this need to submit, this appeal to let go.  Just let it go....

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