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Hello everyone, this is Abhra, greeting you for this week’s poetics. I hope all of you are doing well.
This year I had one of the hottest summers ever. Thankfully the Northwester has started after a few very hot days and given us a big relief. It is now calm and colder. The air is heavy. I like the feeling. It is very pleasant and almost feels like the rainy season but that won’t be here until a few months from now.
Before I share this week’s post, I want to break the news that I have requested to step down from the chair of a bartender here. With my daughter growing up, work and the time difference with EST, I feel I am not able to give writing or hosting here a share of my mind, that I used to. It seems only yesterday, that Brian and Claudia brought me in – that was two years ago. I don’t remember the exact day now – but it was sometime in March or April in 2014. As Claudia said, I tried to bring in a flavor of my history and culture through the prompts as a variation and it worked out very well. To read and write for Dverse has been the biggest thing that has happened to me in my creative journey thus far.
Coming to this week’s prompt – here is what I have in mind – I want you to write a poem about the farewell you gave but didn’t mean to – the good-bye you said but hoped that you will meet again at the crossroads. I know it happened to me before, more than once – that I got onto a train, waved my hands involuntarily, the people I left behind fading slowly and that only made me realize how strong the bond was. I hope you will enjoy writing this – come join me and celebrate poetry.
It has been nothing short of fantastic with you all lovely people here and though I might join back in future, as of now, with a heavy heart I bid you all good-bye. If you are reading my post or poetics for the first time, here is what you have to do.
- Write a poem and post it to your site/blog.
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Thank you all. Have fun.
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Hello everyone ! my 20th and last post – for now.
For now I hope… 🙂
Au revoir indeed. Best wishes to you. I hope when you feel like and have a nudge from your muse, that you will visit. you will be missed.
All the best to you Abhra ~ Thanks for all your contributions to the D’verse community ~
It feels sad to say goodbye to a bartender, though I always prefer to say like the French… “au revoir”, we will meet again Abhra, sometimes life is filled and we have to make priorities…
Abhra, brother poet, we never did the collaboration poem we discussed, & your life has pulled you away from poetics a lot lately. Kudos for focusing on family & immediate life issues–but we all know, or hope we do, that the poet within you will nudge its way to the surface now & again, & it will be like a homecoming each time you join us. I treasure you & your words.
I do look forward to the collaboration anyway… maybe something to be posted later
I don’t know what to reply to your – I am feeling such heavy and lonely – perhaps more than ever. I treasure the moments spent with Dverse~
Hello everyone. Back from the MD with my husband – just routine. I will be in and out and out and about reading and commenting. I hope I interpreted the prompt correctly. I’ve never said goodbye and not meant it. If not sure, I’ve always said until later…. but it will be interested to see what gets posted. I love this about the prompts and poems…
Hey everyone,
It feels sad to see a fellow poet leave.. and that too someone who is part of the dVerse team. You will be greatly missed Abhra.
Sharing my poem “Perchance” hope you guys like it 🙂
Lots of love,
Sanaa
Thank you for all you’ve done for us, Abhra. I’m sorry but I will need to skip today’s prompt–keep having problems with my wrist. The joys of aging!
Feel better Victoria! 🙂 Will miss not seeing a poem from you….till the next one…:)
Hope you get well soon Victoria – .
Sorry to see you go, Abhra, but I hope to see your work around. Thanks for all you’ve done for dVerse.
I wish I didn’t have to – but lately things have become a little stressful for me – I hope to join as prompt participants as and when time permits though.
It’s always hard to say “farewell”–sometimes harder on the blogs, than in “real life”. I wish you well, hope you’ll be back when you can 🙂
Abra, I just wanted to stop by and thank you for all you have done. I wish you much joy and success in the next level of your journey.
I still consider myself new here, but I have enjoyed a couple of your prompts Abhra very much. Allbest in all you hope for~
Thank you so much . …
This has turned into a thought provoking prompt for sure. Thank you, Abhra and good luck along your journey! Not one for goodbye. I’m more of a “see you later” guy. So, see you later.
I too hope to see you pop in now and then Abhra…my best wishes to you. You are a talented writer and I’m guessing that you’ll keep up with your writing as time allows.
I sure will try to..thank you for your kind words…
Abbhra, thank you for your terrific bar tending and prompts. I do hope you will lok in from time to time. Good luck with your poetry collection – buon lavoro
Thank you – yes, I hope to join in from time to time…
Newer to the bar and the dVerse team….wanting to say thanks Abhra for your time here. I’ve been so impressed with dVerse — enjoying the company and learning lots also. The “earlier” members have created a wonderful site — and we shall continue in the spirit in which you all have started and tended this amazing place! Best wishes to you 🙂
Thank you and I hope you will continue with the legacy…..best wishes…
And — a second post here — I’m back! Had a WONDERFUL 5 days in NC with my son and his family — my daughter and her family also came out for a few of the days. Birthday celebrations and much family love and laughter! Missed writing and reading — but family first is a good motto and I shall enjoy writing and reading again this morning over my morning cup 🙂
TO SHARE: I taught my precocious 9 year old grandaughter how to write an etheree (previous prompt) — we talked a lot about poetry and she read aloud my fractured tale of Jack and the Beanstalk poem 🙂 and others. So — here is what she wrote:
Stella’s Animal Etheree
Once
I saw
a wrinkly
green elephant.
It had purple spots,
escaped from a circus
and was walking down the street.
Hello! I said. Goodbye! it said
and off it walked down the cobblestones.
Goodbye! I said and then away I went.
Next, I met a cute turquoise koala.
I gave it a hug and sat up high
in a tree. I sat and started
to fly. Way in the blue sky,
then down I came. Down. Down.
A truck came at me!
I tried to fly
and then up!
I woke!
Bye!
Hope I’ve put a smile on your face this morning! So now to write to Abhra’s prompt — and then to get back to my joyful dVerse reading 🙂
Happy Wednesday all………
Your poem brought me a smile – I think I am going to read it out to my daughter. She is just starting her rhymes though.
She really had fun writing it! She also did three American Sentences about pigeons! 🙂
How very clever of your granddaughter… I hope you will school her well in poetry.
This is so adorable Lillian ~ Thanks for sharing ~
😊 So glad you enjoyed!
I haven’t been here long but I wanted to say goodbye to you, Abhra.
We only get so much time to crunch and I hope you enjoy all of the extra time you’ll be having. Good luck to you!
I’m too busy to link up today but I’ll try and read.
Hugs! Bekkie
Thank you Bekkie –
I haven’t been on dVerse very long but wanted to send best wishes to Abhra and all of your future endeavors. H
Wishing you well, Abhra–
https://stellaseawaft.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/sorrows-unintended-farewell/
What a lovely and thoughtful post, Abhra. I wish you a happy life, and hope to see you here again.
Oh no! I got there too late. In any case, I wrote a poem, a kyrielle, if anyone wants to check it out.
Thank you, Abhra, for hosting! Sorry I got there three hours too late – the Linky thing expired.
https://magicsurrealist2013.me/2016/05/26/it-isnt-quite-goodbye-with-friends/
Our OpenLinkNight will be opening very soon. Feel free to link up this poem or any poem !
Thank you! Still getting the hang of things around here. It’s a lovely hub!
Here is mine. I guess I am late. Sorry! ❤
https://areadingwritr.wordpress.com/2016/05/26/bad-goodbye/
Hello! Our OpenLinkNight post is open, so feel free to link up this poem or any poem today until tomorrow. See you~