A Poem By Gwen Flowers Entitled Grief

A Poem By Gwen Flowers Entitled Grief Grief leaves you changed. It changes, but it never leaves you. I like this poem. I retyped it below in case you have difficulty reading it in the picture. I like it because I feel this. Grief is not something that you “get over”. Yes, it morphs and…

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My Anniversary – Dear Emilee Letter And Poem

Dear Emilee, You will be happy to know that I got you a balloon, and something else too but I will tell you in private. I am just seeing Maryann’s note and that is bringing on tears. Okay…focus….lol…not exactly my forte all the time, but I have gotten better since you are gone. I had…

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Thoughts About My Anniversary Without Emilee

I know this is long… takes more than 10 seconds to read … it Rambles it roams … Welcome to my thoughts … It is my stream of consciousness as I look to the sky and take in the wondrous image of the splashing wake and the gentle rise and fall of the prominent prow,…

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The Anniversary Card – Emilee Left Me One For This Year

 This is the kind of thoughtful, caring, kind wife that Emilee was. Emilee left me a card for our anniversary for this year for 2017. And, yes, I cheated, I have read it several times, probably more than several, I think I read it for the first time the week after she died, and I…

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Poem – What Color Suffering

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10211266067828086&set=a.10208902106450529.1073741827.1251156678&type=3 The link is for a Snoopy drawing I drew from an illustration with the caption, “you are always on my mind” WHAT COLOR? Once I had an idea, and thought what color is pain what color suffering, a common affliction of each human soul? is it blue for sad is it red for mad…

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A Couple Of His Poems

Just to give you a taste, the rest is up to you THE LIGHTEST TOUCH Good poetry begins with the lightest touch, a breeze arriving from nowhere, a whispered healing arrival, a word in your ear, a settling into things, then, like a hand in the dark, it arrests the whole body, steeling you for…

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A Poet I Have Long Enjoyed…A Word On Friendship

A Poet I Have Long Enjoyed…A Word On Friendship Just one example…..David Whyte, an excerpt on what he said about friendship…so many of his poems bring tears to my eyes…and no…my tears “filter” has never “reset” itself since Em died, and probably, never will (a good thing). …”Friendship transcends disappearance: an enduring friendship goes on…

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Serendipity and Some Levity

dear Emilee McDermott Klein  after losing a poem to our son and daughter in law on their anniversary poem for the day….as I lost a post and had to rewrite , then lost my mind and ohhhh what a site, but it caused me to write this so allllllllllll is not really lost,  helped me to…

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Poem – For All The Grieving Souls

For those grieving for lost loved ones anywhere, but right now, especially for Sutherland Springs, Texas, Manhattan, New York, Las Vegas, Nevada, and countless others here, and everywhere…for you and the anguish you are feeling and for all of us who feel the enormity of your loss…our hearts reach out to yours… Grieving Souls Bless…

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