Goodbye
By Helen S. Hughes
How loath I was to say goodbye
To those I loved, until I knew
The word goodbye came from a term
Used long ago, God be with you.
And now to you I say goodbye;
I wish you joy, good fortune, too;
Until again we meet, you will
Not be alone – God goes with you.
(1950)
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I hope there is not a subtle secondary message in this post…..
Nope. You’re stuck with me, Tom, for a long time to go. There are, for instance, exactly precisely to-the-dot 900 posts in the draft queue this afternoon:
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I can be dead for two years before anybody notices. And nobody will know it but you and me, because nobody else will click through to comments on a poem!
Wow, the title of the post gave me a scare, and I’m mostly a lurker!
🙂
Honest, that never occurred to me when I chose this poem!
Funny! Didn’t you have one recently named “Apology”? : )
By the way, what a nice collection this is! These poems may not be as memorable as some of the great world classics, but they’re certainly very well done, and worth remembering.
Yeah, I’ll have to pay more attention to titles, maybe!
Glad you’re enjoying these. I agree that there have been few that have real staying power (I can think of a couple, though, that I think belong in Mormon anthologies). They do seem to say something about who we were and are, and I like to think of the poets, at least the mothers and homebodies among them, stretching themselves to be artistic and then finding the same pleasure we all get at finding an audience.
“I can be dead for two years before anybody notices.”
I don’t think so. Your comments after the posts are sometimes more memorable than the post!
Mahana “like”
Mahana indeed “like”
I’ve been looking at my site stats today. There was a huge bump in traffic yesterday afternoon, and the only other anomaly is the huge number (like, five times as many as poetry usually gets) of visitors to this post. I can’t account for that except for assuming that people saw the title in an aggregator and thought this was something other than what it is.
Hmmm. I’ll have to hunt up some poems with titles like “Farewell Cruel World” or “Cash Giveaway” or “Instant Weight Loss” and see if I can replicate this …
Count me in as one of those who saw the title yesterday and who immediately worried Ardis was bidding us farewell.
Nice poem, by the way. Oh, and if “God be with you” became “Goodbye,” then “God goes with you” would be “Goodgye.” I dare someone to use it IRL. Heh.
Ardis, you might also want to avoid the title “Used Laptop for Sale.”
I like the poetry you have been posting. And just for the record, I click through the comments on a poem.
I haven’t clicked here for awhile for some reason and also was worried when I saw the title “Goodbye.”
Don’t leave us, Ardis!