It is springtime and you offer

you are going far away

and the daffodils are reaching for the sky.

Will the robins stop their chirping?

Will the rivers cease to flow?

Will I justify the meaning of good-bye?

Joan Magiet is a former Assistant Professor of English, adjunct faculty at Nassau Community College, New York, an award winning journalist and poet. As a magazine article writer she has served as feature editor, travel editor and arts editor for several tri-state magazines. As a journalist she has written news and feature articles for several Long Island newspapers. She is a founding member of Performance Poets Association, a former contest judge and editor and a member of the Academy of American Poets. In a contest sponsored by the National League of American Pen Women, she won second prize for her poem, “The Empty Room.” She has hosted monthly poetry readings at Barnes and Noble on Long Island and Books-a-Million in Sarasota, Florida. She has given readings at local bookstores and libraries on Long Island and in Sarasota and on radio and television. She currently runs a monthly poetry workshop at the Gulf Gate Library in Sarasota. She is the author of “Tender Chains” a collection of poetry written from the heart. She is currently working on her second book of poems, “Push Back the Boundaries. “