Goodbye - NaPoWriMo Day 3

Goodbye

Well we are here

To remember her

And I am sure

That we remember

Her love of animals

Her fun loving

Personality

But most of all

Her urmm

Now how can I put it

Her Wind

Almost musical

At times

As she walked

Phurped, Phurped

As she sat

Phart, Phart

As she ate

The occasional

High pitched burp

And when she

Laughed, well

Both at once

She truly had

An answer

And a wind

For every occasion

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Write an elegy – a poem that mourns or honors someone dead or something gone by. And I’d like to ask you to center the elegy on an unusual fact about the person or thing being mourned. For example, if you are writing an elegy about your grandfather, perhaps the poem could be centred around a signature phrase of his. (My own grandfather used to justify whatever he was doing by saying, “well, I can’t sing or dance, and it’s too wet to plow,” which baffled me considerably as a child). Or perhaps your Aunt Lily always unconsciously whistled between her teeth while engaged in her daily battle with the crossword puzzle. These types of details paradoxically breathe life into an elegy, making the mourned person real for the reader.