“Life's like usWe find it- and then the deathA poem for a goodbye?Why insist?”

“I find wisdom in the waves. Goodbye is a hello to a life without you.”

“Insisting that his writing did not offer a philosophy of life, Hardy claims that each poem was an ‘impression’, intensely subjective and evanescent.”

“Like flowers in a storm... ... Life is full of goodbyes.”

“Like flowers in a storm, life is full of goodbyes”

“Somehow, when a person you like reads your poem and says they like it, the poem seems all fresh and new afterwards. I wonder why?”

“Life is like an airport. It's where every hello and goodbye take place.”