Tag Archive | grieving
Guest author: S. Jackson – Regarding Child Loss
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
I’m not the woman I once was…I know the hurt, the battle within. I’m not the woman I once was… I’m not the mama I once was… but I’m me, please take me as I am, full of flaws… I know the hurt, the battle within. My…
In the fields of the flat lands
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
In the north, in Flanders, where the earth is deep Are the golden fields where the mud was red And beneath the crosses hospital white Lie the broken bones of a million dead. Now in the flat lands poppies blow Around the fields where the grain grows high And…
Short sharp sorrow
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Trying to get the sadness out. A haiku, a short poem, and a tanka. Grief pangs twist the heart Wring tears from vague sentiment A sea to drown in. A child is dead And another and another All someone’s children All my children So many parents’ tears Pour A…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 