Today on the last day of National Poetry Writing Month, Maureen at NaPoWriMo.net prompted:<\/p>\n
Today, as befits the final poem of NaPoWriMo, I challenge you to write a poem of farewell. It doesn\u2019t have to be goodbye forever \u2014 like I said, NaPoWriMo will be back again next year. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The Eve of May<\/strong><\/p>\nGoodbye winter.
\nGoodbye April.
\nGoodbye deep cold.
\nGoodbye long black nights.
\nGoodbye dark mornings.
\nGoodbye birds which leave.
\nGoodbye generations of cats.
\nGoodbye chipped china cups.
\nGoodbye strangers.
\nGoodbye people I thought I knew.
\nGoodbye the seamed side of things.
\nGoodbye the reasons which made sense.
\nGoodbye words I couldn’t capture.
\nGoodbye thoughts I can’t remember.
\nGoodbye plans made and forgotten.
\nGoodbye what seemed like truth.
\nGoodbye to holding on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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