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Tag: Grief

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

Do not pass go, do not collect £200

  The grief keeps on coming. Though I write from my place of privilege, of safety, it still feels relentless. … More

A Case of You, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Death, Grief, Joni Mitchell, Loss, Monopoly, Trauma

Living in the layers

  The Layers I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I … More

Grief, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, mindfulness, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Stanley Kunitz

On the Edge

  On the Edge After your mother dies, you will learn to live on the edge of life, to brace … More

Death, Dorianne Laux, Dying, Grief, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Losing a Parent

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