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Tag: Grief

The Wind and the Rain – due in June 2023

I’m delighted to announce that The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, will be published with Blue … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Blue Diode Publishing, Climate Change Grief, Grief, Poems, Poetry, Poets, The Wind and the Rain, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems

Lifesaving Lines: What the Living Do, by Marie Howe

Two great lines for the price of one (it is Christmas, after all) this week, from Marie Howe’s extraordinary poem … More

Being a Poet, Cancer, Grief, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Lines, Marie Howe, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Remission, What the Living Do

Lifesaving Lines: Autumn, by Roo Borson

We have a lot of windows. I sit next to them at this time of the year thinking, Just five … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Grief, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Roo Borson

The blank space

Dear Friends Like the closed down (but still creative) shop window of Top Shop I saw on an early morning … More

Being a Blogger, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Blogging, Grief, Lifesaving Poems, Reading Poetry, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Process

The sweetness of 2020

I don’t want to pretend for a second that it was great. It was full of rawness and grief and … More

2020, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Grief, Happy New year, Max Richter, Mental Health, New Year Letter, Reading, Writing

On ‘Goodbye to being a poet’

Just over a year ago I wrote a blog post talking about my ‘tired frame of mind’ and intention to … More

ADHD, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Blogging, Grief, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Donne, Louise Glück, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Toon Tellegen

What you read in 2020

Here are the blog posts that you read most in 2020 As I click through the links I am surprised … More

Alzheimer's, Blogging, Dementia, Grief, Lifesaving Poems, Loss, Mental Health, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

This was a good week

Third Sunday in Advent Today I pause from giving you updates from grief’s front line and take a leaf from … More

Advent, Anna Kamienska, Clive Wilmer, Gratitude, Grief, Harold Budd, John Freeman, Karen Walrond, mindfulness, Shawna Lemay, Simon Parke

The Sky Over My Mother’s House

The Sky Over My Mother’s House It is a July night scented with gardenias. The moon and stars shine hiding … More

Grief, Jaime Manrique, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Mental Health, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

Before

Before No shoes and a glossyred helmet, I rodeon the back of my dad’sHarley at seven years old.Before the divorce.Before … More

Ada Limon, Grief, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Writing

A holiness to exhaustion

First There is a holiness to exhaustion is what I keep telling myself, filling out the form so my TA … More

Carrie Fountain, Exhaustion, Grief, James Schuyler, Lifesaving Poems, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

You’ve got to write it all down

The unexamined life’s no different from                              … More

Bereavement, Charles Wright, Grief, Life Lessons, Life Writing, Lifesaving Poems, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

The Thing Is

The Thing Is to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you’ve held dearcrumbles … More

Ellen Bass, Grief, Life Lessons, Life Writing, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets

When I am Asked

When I am Asked When I am asked    how I began writing poems,    I talk about the indifference of nature.    … More

Grief, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Lisell Mueller, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry

Autumn

Autumn One night goes on longer than the rest, never so long, whiled away. Then dawn. Goodbye, insects. Hollow casings … More

Autumn, Grief, Lifesaving Poems, Malena Morling, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Robert Hass, Roo Borson

God’s Grief

God’s Grief Great parentwho must have started outwith such high hopes.What magnitude of suffering,the immensity of guilt,the staggering despair.A mind … More

Ellen Bass, Grief, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry

Go well

  I have walked into the grief. I have walked into brave space, mine and others’. I have sat in … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Creativity, Grief, Max Richter, Mental Health, mindfulness, Peter Gabriel, Presence, Robert Pinsky

Courage

  Courage It is in the small things we see it. The child’s first step, as awesome as an earthquake. … More

Anne Sexton, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Cancer, Chemotherapy, Depression, Education, Grief, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Poetry, Racism, Radiotherapy, Teaching, White Privilege, Writing, Writing Poetry

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