Best Leaving Home Poems

Parents nurture young
Finally freedom to fly
Fledglings spread their wings

28th April 2015...

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In great respect of the band I grew up listening to
                       as sure as Mom passed down Saturday Chores 
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Excitement and joy yet pain
Fearful and so sad yet bliss
A dream to be realised
Boughs bend to the wind




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Morning, a grey smudge. 
Blurred senses stirring slowly. 
Holding your brown case,
You creep down the creaking stairs,
Lift the clacking latch, then leave....

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>All poets scribes of verse on here.  This rhyme does not mean you, please don't fear.  But if it did, as was accepted in your group, you could strike me from this poetic soup.

Trouble is brewing for the EU

Although I speak of days...

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So many years have come and gone away, 
And now the time has come that I should leave; 
The sanctuary where I was to pray, 
The haven where my heart was free to grieve. 

I never had to front or fog the facts. 
It knew...

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How will I know if this day is right for me?
I have waited oh so long to do what needs to be.
But, is the first step, the best thing, for me to do?
How will I be able to know if… all will work out true?

The...

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My heart went on a roam to explore 
A place far away across the fence bar.
To seize the moment of an open door
Adventure felt free when traveling far.

With turmoil war, work inspired the mind,
There to find, the illusive feign of reason,
an opportunity of age believed...

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There is a wee tall tale, 
 that me father told us three.
He'd heard it from his father before him.
It was part of his family tree.
He told of how he'd left Ireland,
and sailed the ocean blue,
to land in another country,
that to him was all new.
He...

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Crying softly in the
back seat, as I
wait for endless greens
woods
farms, cows
to stop.
It’s easier to grieve them
out of sight....

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leaving home

tell tales of courage
hope and faith my
mind will not hold these
sliding thoughts tonight.

tonight I am afraid
it has been growing
 in my gut all day
 tying myriad knots
like a crazed boy scout.

I am afraid with no surcease
it is paralyzing me 
binding me into the woman
I...

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I can't bear to say goodbye, go back to that place,
All the memories moving out, the rooms empty space,
To see it will make me fall to my knees,
Lord, I miss her so much,  I can barely breathe,
Inside me, a hurricane that can't tame its...

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on leaving home:
i have learned to count souly on myself
cause if i fail
i have only one person to blame
MYSELF...

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A life moves on
The empty space
A vacancy
The smile missed face

The heartfelt ache
The hopeful joy
Of knowing birds
Must wings deploy

The silent cloak
Of no-one there
Is draped on shoulders
Poised to bear

A voice, a note
Would lift the heart
Small gesture to
The soul impart

Some comfort
In the knowing that
The gloss of memory
Not turned...

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It wasn't hard to say goodbye
Until I saw my sister cry
Then so did I 
As we drove away.

It wasn't hard to say chaio 
To the laugh lines in the brow
Of my Dad who showed me how
As his hug wished me to stay

It wasn't hard to...

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