Goodbye, Thank you, 2011

Goodbye, Twenty-eleven

Goodbye false hope

Goodbye, calls from the emergency room

Goodbye to my monther-in-law's 60-day hospital stay

Gooodbye to her pneumonia

Goodbye to her foreclosure and eviction

Goodbye to bankruptcy

Goodbye, earthquakes

Goodbye Ruby, killed in a crash

Goodbye, wooden horses

Goodbye, paper roses

 Goodbye. 

 

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Thank you, Twenty-Eleven

Thank you for my health

Thank you for my family

Thank you for rivers of verse running thru me

Thank you to my editor & publisher

Thank you friends (old and new)

Thank you.

And my best wishes to you all, my readers, for health, strength, and luck in the new year.

 

Comments

[Darcy]

I'm grateful for the rivers of verse running through you, too, and for the end of all the hard. Goodbye, 2011.

[Ninotchka]

All the best to you & yours, Charlie!

[Julie Ricks]

Charlie, we're grateful and so very happy to publish you. You are extremely talented and we look forward to everything you write. May 2012 find us all peaceful, prosperous, and content.

Cheers,

Julie Ricks