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Swear-to-GoodnessI make you tragic
Stir the dormant conscience in your gut
Until you're sick with how you hate yourself
And ashamed because you should
Even as your feet defy the exhortation
That if guilt could make you will
You would
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Categories:
goodbye, angst, betrayal, character, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Burned AliveHow
While I
Was burned alive
With loving you
Could you help but feel
The heat from it beside me?...
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Categories:
goodbye, angst, betrayal, depression, devotion,
Form: Free verse
departure
Categories:
goodbye,
Form: Haiku
Butter YellowI can almost smell the fresh paint. That isn't possible however. That scent was almost 19 years ago… Butter Yellow was the name on the sample card. Rocking chair. Tiny pink booties.
Stickers hide butter yellow...
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Categories:
goodbye, baby, caregiving, daughter, family,
Form: Free verse
The Other WomanYou did not care who you hurt
No thought for his wife, you came first
The family you destroyed, along the way
How selfish you were and yet I hear (you pray)?
I hope you are proud of what...
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Categories:
betrayal, goodbye, heartbreak, marriage,
Form: Free verse
MirroredMy sadness is in the slumping of your shoulders
And your resignation is in the bowing of my head
Regret pours from your listless palms
Set open on your lap
And a mirror on the wall that's opposite the...
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Categories:
goodbye, angst, betrayal, boyfriend, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
GoodbyeGoodbye hope,
Your time has past,
Cannot cope,
I'm at my last.
There's nothing left,
Done nothing right,
She's out the door,
Out of sight.
The road has come to the end,
No more turns,
No more bends,
Isolated.
Broken.
Deprived.
Voided.
Goodbye love,
Poured it all out,
Empty tank,
Broken spout.
Goodbye...
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Categories:
goodbye, anger, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Message Left on the WindshieldThe rain fogged my window and thoughts
It triggered the grief of losing you
It cried for me when I couldn't
What I would give just to see you one more time
I just want to see you from...
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Categories:
goodbye, grief, i love
Form: Blank verse
YouI met you
Running one day
Wish I’d withdrew.
Instead, I’d stay
For twenty-five years
While you’d betray
And cause tears
But now, phew:
Dear heart disappears!
...
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Categories:
goodbye,
Form: Other
A Boy, a Dog Named FillipFull of life but barely breathing
Bleary with the way your brown eyes shine
Rising like smoke, dark fur streams through
And gently dances like the fire
Fillip was a boy, a dog, driven away...
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Categories:
death, dog, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Afraid of goodbye
Chained to the wall
with a necklace of silver
Hung out to dry
on the first rainy day
Push comes to shove,
it's been waiting forever
Here at the end,
I've got something to say
Where did you go,
when the sun painted...
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Categories:
goodbye, hello,
Form: Rhyme
Plain AffectedThe forest around her story damning the plains—
The littlest girl seen by the wind through the plains.
Green honey passes just by a bee's swirling wings;
The gold smoothed by her heart; fingers reading the plains.
The likelihood...
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Categories:
angst, future, goodbye, introspection,
Form: Ghazal
WingsAs I laid there looking up at the stars,
I felt sad and all alone.
The sting of old scars
made me realize that you were already gone.
No matter what I said, I was to blame,
yelling at me...
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Categories:
goodbye, break up, change, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Bad News, Morose NewsIt’s like being hit by a meteor
Where there’s no tomorrow
It is like doomsday, really
Where everything is ugly
And absolutely nothing is pretty
I just received the bad news
That my sister-in-law had died
Suddenly and extemporaneously
Without being sick tremendously
I...
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Categories:
goodbye, dark, death, death of
Form: Rhyme
Home AgainHis trip took him across many miles
That might have seemed unending -
But he did not notice.
His flight was uneventful
And should have been quite peaceful -
But he did not notice.
The roads traversed green countryside
And might have...
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Categories:
goodbye, bereavement, care, death, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Goodbye Poems
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break up, coworker, cousin, dad, farewell, friend, funny, grandma, grandpa, her, him, love, retirement, saying, sister, student, teacher,
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Definition | What is Goodbye in Poetry?
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