Today on the last day of National Poetry Writing Month, Maureen at NaPoWriMo.net prompted:

Today, as befits the final poem of NaPoWriMo, I challenge you to write a poem of farewell. It doesn’t have to be goodbye forever — like I said, NaPoWriMo will be back again next year.

I spent this morning with Mom and then with my current quilt and a little bit older one, getting them ready to quilt. Got ready my little test piece to quilt on too. Ate left overs, listened to the rain and wind howling outside. Thought about having spent another April writing poems and posting them here. When I started this I made part of my personal goal to post something here each day, even if it meant writing something else. That only happened a few times that first year as I remember. It’s good to be willing to share the process though. So here’s the last poem of April 2014, which rumbled around in my brain this evening while I was doing a lot of pinning of quilts.

The Eve of May

Goodbye winter.
Goodbye April.
Goodbye deep cold.
Goodbye long black nights.
Goodbye dark mornings.
Goodbye birds which leave.
Goodbye generations of cats.
Goodbye chipped china cups.
Goodbye strangers.
Goodbye people I thought I knew.
Goodbye the seamed side of things.
Goodbye the reasons which made sense.
Goodbye words I couldn’t capture.
Goodbye thoughts I can’t remember.
Goodbye plans made and forgotten.
Goodbye what seemed like truth.
Goodbye to holding on.