NaPoWriMo 2013: Day 6

Hello, all, and welcome to the sixth day (and first Saturday!) of NaPoWriMo!

Our featured link today is the always reliable Verse Daily, where they feature a new poem every day. They tend to pick poems from recently published books so it can be a good way of finding new poets with new books that you might like!

Our featured participant’s site is ab chaos poesis, where A Quinlan and Alan Kleiman are posting their NaPoWriMo efforts. I really like A Quinlan’s poem for Day Five, with its shades of Mr. Rochester’s mad wife.

And now, our (completely optional) prompt for the day! This might seem like a bit of a downer, but I challenge you to write a valediction. This is a poem of farewell. Perhaps the most famous one is John Donne’s A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, which turns the act of saying good-bye into a very tender love poem. But your poem could say “good-bye” (and maybe good riddance!) to anything or anyone. A good-bye to winter might be in order, for example. Or good-bye to the week-old easter eggs in your refrigerator. Light or serious, long or short, it’s up to you!

Let's start with good-bye

by: Keith Dozier

Let's start with good-bye,

No need to cry,
I'll tell you why.

Sometimes people's part

In our story is over.

We have no choice,

But moving on - 

Take the time to recover.

I'd love you to love me,

Just for the heart

I have for you,

That'd be a start.

We can get past

Broken hearts.

I've done it before.

Let's look past our window

For a new open door.

It's ok to hurt,

It's ok to be broken--

For a short time and then,

No more words need be spoken.

Be ok.

I'm still cheering

For you to succeed.

In love and life--

Hoping you get what you need.

Let's not dawdle

When we diddle,

Have a caudle,

But, let's not piddle.

We're fine, we got this..

We're going to go on.

Grab the horns of life,

Ride it out- have some fun !