Download or read book Moments in Time Poems of Grief and Healing written by Andrea Williamson and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrea Williamson uses her own experiences to pose ideas of the "new normal" by memorializing her late husband after he suddenly lost his life in an auto accident. Williamson delivers poetry in this classic reflection on the issues of life with mourning and healing. Williamson also offers a personal analysis with her own experiences in hopes that dealing with grief allows one to be triumphant in the midst of the storm. Each poem allows you to inhibit love, comfort and the sense that you are not alone.
Download or read book Moments in TIme written by Hilary Steel and published by Perstone Press. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find comfort in moments of grief with this collection of poems written for grieving hearts. Grief is unique and to help you work through your own process, these poems are here to provide comfort when your mind wanders to the death of a loved one. Moments in Time is an empowering collection of poems helping you in times of sadness and grief - Helping you navigate your healing journey. Some poems are reflective, and some will make you smile, just as moments in life do. These poems, although centred around grief, offer hope that the pain you initially feel will subside as you look to remember much happier times spent with your loved one. Some poems are suitable to be used during funeral services, especially for Celebrations of Life, and you are welcome to adapt them accordingly as long as credit is given to the author, Hilary Steel. Carry this book with you and refer to it when you need to-grief never goes away, we simply learn to live with it. By finding comfort in words, it becomes much more bearable. From the back cover: "Hilary's writing included beautiful elements that captured my dearly beloved Ma, Val Gomez. It was an exquisite piece in an emotional service and the words will stay with me forever." Sharne Thorpe "I've never been so moved by poetry until I heard the one Hilary wrote for my uncle John. As a family, we will always be grateful for her compassion during such a difficult time." Carole Anderson "The poem Hilary wrote for my dad, Bob Woolston, was the perfect ending to the service, and a fitting tribute in his memory. Very uplifting and the talk of the wake." Paul Woolston "Hilary's poem for my father captured everything about his life in a way that took us away from our sadness and reminded us of such happy times and memorable milestones. She provided us with a fitting farewell to a much-loved dad, husband and friend and managed to combine beautifully the human and the heartfelt." Heidi Stonecliffe (KC)
Download or read book The Art of Losing written by Kevin Young and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-05-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kevin Young has thoughtfully gathered many of these sorrowful perambulations and grievous plummets.” -Billy Collins The Art of Losing is the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning. Divided into five sections (Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals, Recovery, and Redemption), with poems by some of our most beloved poets as well as the best of the current generation of poets, The Art of Losing is the ideal gift for a loved one in a time of need and for use by therapists, ministers, rabbis, and palliative care workers who tend to those who are experiencing loss. Among the poets included: Elizabeth Alexander, W. H. Auden, Amy Clampitt, Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, Louise Gluck, Ted Hughes, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Larkin, Li-Young Lee, Philip Levine, Marianne Moore, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Derek Walcott, and James Wright.
Download or read book Grieving Healing Accepting written by Ann Vincent Vila and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eloquent book of poems served as an offering of Healing through Grief and final Acceptance of that loss.This book is for those suffering around us when we are left speechless and can find no words of comfort from our hearts to soothe those grieving souls.Learning to accept the loss of someone might just be aided by reading Ann Vincent Vila's book, Grieving Healing Accepting.
Download or read book Moments in Mourning written by Marianne McNeil Logan and published by . This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survivor after losing a mate of 42 years, Marianne McNeil Logan, a well-known rhyming poet, gently leads the reader through different stages of losing a loved one and into the light, discovering a new life is still possible. A poet with many accolades, three of her chapbooks have garnered five national awards and a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
Download or read book Moments in Time written by Mary-Elizabeth Cotton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From lyrical and light to dark and somber, from humorous to painful, in this, her first volume of poetry, the poet speaks of many of life's "moments in time." May your heart travel through sunlight and shadow; may your soul be captivated by the beauty of nature and your mind refreshed in soothing waters Experience the feelings of life: from grief to ecstasy, love to distrust, laughter to tears. Impart on a journey through life's "moments in time" and enjoy the ride! (50% of profits on Amazon sales to a no-kill dog rescue/shelter!)
Download or read book Poems of Healing written by Karl Kirchwey and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual. From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donne’s “Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse” and Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul has Bandaged moments” to Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic,” from W.H. Auden’s “Miss Gee” to Lucille Clifton’s “Cancer,” and from D.H. Lawrence’s “The Ship of Death” to Rafael Campo’s “Antidote” and Seamus Heaney’s “Miracle.” Here are poems from around the world, by Sappho, Milton, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Cavafy, and Omar Khayyam; by Stevens, Lowell, and Plath; by Zbigniew Herbert, Louise Bogan, Yehuda Amichai, Mark Strand, and Natalia Toledo. Messages of hope in the midst of pain—in such moving poems as Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” George Herbert’s “The Flower,” Wisława Szymborska’s “The End and the Beginning,” Gwendolyn Brooks’ “when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story” and Stevie Smith’s “Away, Melancholy”—make this the perfect gift to accompany anyone on a journey of healing. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
Download or read book Afterland written by Mai Der Vang and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2016 winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Carolyn Forché When I make the crossing, you must not be taken no matter what the current gives. When we reach the camp, there will be thousands like us. If I make it onto the plane, you must follow me to the roads and waiting pastures of America. We will not ride the water today on the shoulders of buffalo as we used to many years ago, nor will we forage for the sweetest mangoes. I am refugee. You are too. Cry, but do not weep. —from “Transmigration” Afterland is a powerful, essential collection of poetry that recounts with devastating detail the Hmong exodus from Laos and the fate of thousands of refugees seeking asylum. Mai Der Vang is telling the story of her own family, and by doing so, she also provides an essential history of the Hmong culture’s ongoing resilience in exile. Many of these poems are written in the voices of those fleeing unbearable violence after U.S. forces recruited Hmong fighters in Laos in the Secret War against communism, only to abandon them after that war went awry. That history is little known or understood, but the three hundred thousand Hmong now living in the United States are living proof of its aftermath. With poems of extraordinary force and grace, Afterland holds an original place in American poetry and lands with a sense of humanity saved, of outrage, of a deep tradition broken by war and ocean but still intact, remembered, and lived.
Download or read book Singing My Mother Down written by Elyria Rose and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A deeply personal landscape of revelation and loss that guides the reader toward catharsis." -- M. "Breathtaking." -- R. "These are some of the most beautiful poems I have ever read. I find myself reading them aloud, and I pause after each line. They resonate as when water droplets drop into water, outwards then inwards. I am crying right now." -- T. A few months after my mother died, I changed my name to Elyria. It was a rite of passage suggested by a dear friend who had lost a parent some years earlier. I wish my mother could read these poems. I know some of them would have made her cry, and sometimes that would have been what she needed. But more than that, I want you to read these poems. I know some of them will make you cry, and sometimes that will be what you need. I want you to read them, remember how to heal, learn to live with the hurts and the losses you carry -- take a deep breath -- and go on living. We are all alone in our grief, sometimes. But other times, we can take comfort in sharing our sorrow with those who understand loss. We come away stronger for it. That is my hope for you. all my love, Elyria
Download or read book Love and Heartache Moments written by Deborah Ann Martin and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone loves those moments of being in love. What happens when one love leaves? There are moments of chaos Moments of healing Moments of discovering the real you Moments to live your best life Moments to date and find your true love. Our first love is a special kind of love. We met the perfect person who was everything to us. We wrapped our whole lives around them, changing to fit into their world. Some of us married and started to build a life, careers, family, house, and regular activities. Then one day, something happens. Our everyday lives are no longer normal. The other person doesn't want to be a part of our lives anymore. So we not only lose the person we loved and built our lives around, but everything else in our lives turns to chaos. Shared friends are gone, finances change, someone else wants to be a part of our kids' lives, in-laws who were family, and so much more. What's worse is the emotional roller coaster. Beginning again is hard. But what is impressive is that you discover the real you. Along this journey, we find our real true love. As we enjoy being ourselves, we find that person who loves the real us. This book captures those moments.
Download or read book Quiet Moments written by Margie Martinez and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost everyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one has also experienced seemingly endless quiet momentsmoments when it seems you cannot see past today and moments when tomorrow, as you knew it, seems nonexistent. In these moments, all thoughts rush back into memorymemory so vivid it seems impossible to grasp that the person lost is truly gone from your life. Quiet Moments allows the reader to reflect on living and dying as two inevitable facts. It encourages the reader to believe and trust in Gods power to begin healing and restore wholeness.
Download or read book I Look To The Mourning Sky written by Liz Newman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Look To The Mourning Sky: A Book of Poems and Writing Prompts for the Grieving Heart is a collection of poems for anyone who has experienced the immensity of loss. Its poems are written through the first year of grief and they seek to acknowledge the pain and complexity of this journey, which can be so isolating and overwhelming. While grief is a lifelong experience, it is something that is constantly changing and evolving. Its landscape is unpredictable and unrelenting. I Look to the Mourning Sky is a collection that seeks to meet people in the storms of their sadness and remind them that they aren't alone. Also included are twelve writing prompts centered around grief and processing. Whether your grief is fresh or you can't imagine a time you weren't carrying it, these poems and prompts are written with the goal of giving you a safe space to feel the ups and downs of loss and to heal in your own way at your own pace. Whether you are an avid writer or can't remember the last time you ever put pen to paper, these prompts are designed for you: to write your story, to share your story, to make sense of the things you don't say aloud. The love you still have for who and what you've lost is so deeply important. The chapters of their love and the pages of memories are yours to keep. Your grief, their story, and how it's helped you write yours: it matters. It all matters. I hope this helps you on your journey.
Download or read book Night Light As It Rises written by Orna Ross and published by Orna Ross. This book was released on 2022-02-27 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bright Star: 12 Poems to Inspire Book 2 An illustrated book of inspirational poems about grief, consolation, and carrying on. “Since my mum died I make sure to take time for honouring her and this spoke to that feeling... in those moments [of reading], it’s like she’s still here..” COZY CHAPTERS Night Light As It Rises is the second book in the Twelve Poems to Inspire series, a range of gift books for festivals like Valentine’s and Mother’s Day, and life occasions. These are poems that embrace the pain of grief and mourning, not so much about grief as fashioned of it, and reaching out from it to others experiencing the same emotions. In hard times, poetry helps. It offers an opportunity to reflect on sorrow, find gain in loss, fashion meaning, or experience grace in contemplation. In a group setting, a poetry reading allows everyone present to share a profound moment together and strengthens the bonds between those who mourn. These twelve beautifully illustrated poems inspire consolation for those who are grieving, whether their sorrow is for loved ones left or leaving, for endangered people or our imperiled planet, for personal failures and regrets. Each of the poems explores a different way to hold sorrow and offers a corresponding condolence. The poems do not shy away from suffering but whether considering a dark night of the soul, the hour before dawn or the struggle to keep going, this poet is always reminding us of the transformative power of love and time. The book is divided into three sections: Accept, Alight and Allow. Chosen and arranged by Orna Ross, each poem is appropriately illustrated with a picture from a contemporary photographer or artist. A beautiful gift of sympathy for a loved one in a time of need and for use by therapists, priests, ministers, rabbis, health professionals and palliative care workers who tend to those experiencing loss. More inspirational poems at: OrnaRoss.com/poetry
Download or read book Seeing the Body Poems written by Rachel Eliza Griffiths and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominee for the 2021 NAACP Image Award in Poetry An elegiac and moving meditation on the ways in which we witness "bodies" of grief and healing. Poems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging the invisible, indefinable ways mourning takes up residence in a body, both before and after life-altering loss. In radiant poems—set against the evocative and desperate backdrop of contemporary events, pop culture, and politics—Rachel Eliza Griffiths reckons with her mother’s death, aging, authority, art, black womanhood, memory, and the American imagination. The poems take shape in the space where public and private mourning converge, finding there magic and music alongside brutality and trauma. Griffiths braids a moving narrative of identity and its possibilities for rebirth through image and through loss. A photographer as well as a poet, Griffiths accompanies the fierce rhythm of her verses with a series of ghostly, imaginative self-portraits, blurring the body’s internal wilderness with landscapes alive with beauty and terror. The collision of text and imagery offers an associative autobiography, in which narratives of language, absence, and presence are at once saved, revised, and often erased. Seeing the Body dismantles personal and public masks of silence and self-destruction to visualize and celebrate the imperfect freedom of radical self-love.
Download or read book Moments in Time written by Jeff Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful book of modern day poetry whether you are in love, living life to its fullest or trying to rise above the sadness and heartbreak of loss. This book with its beautiful illustrations and cleverly crafted words will walk you through the unknown escapable connections between our moments of highs and lows. It will help you capture in thought those agonizing times of sorrow as well as those astonishing connections of love. Gently reminding you that it is when we look deeper than the surface that we see the true purpose and meaning in our journey. Love is the true source of these writings and love will surely lead you to a safe and happy space. Constantly reminding you that we all can overcome and live life to its happiest.
Download or read book The Arc of Grieving written by Christine D'Arc Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This poignant and accessible collection of poems began as Suzanne Weiss Morgen's personal journey of grieving and mourning her parents. But it became much more as she expanded her thinking to encompass the dynamic odyssey through the myriad of thoughts and emotions that surge forth when a loved one dies-the sadness, fear, anger, crazy madness, relief, and finally the healing. She wants these poems to transcend her personal experience and provide universal support, acknowledgement, understanding, and comfort for anyone faced with a death. Grief is a natural reaction to losing someone you love. It's not about forgetting the person but more about somehow fashioning a new relationship with the loved one lost. The duration, power and intensity, color, and tone of the grief are all unpredictable and unique to each individual. It can often be difficult for the griever to express all they are experiencing. This book is designed to put some of those feeling into words: to help clarify, validate, and provide solace and assurance that you are not alone. It's important to allow yourself space and permission to process your pain and heartache-to be empathetic and offer compassion to yourself as well as to allow others to do the same for you. Take a deep breath and be tender as you grieve. And don't hesitate to embark on the journey through memories, experiences, stories, feelings, and anything and everything that brings you comfort and consolation. There is hope beyond the bewilderment of bereavement eventually leading to a new found peace.
Download or read book Moments in Time written by Bernice W. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I feel that each reader of this book will connect with my words in some special manner. You will find inspiration and even strength during times of adversity. You will relate to feelings of love; perhaps see beauty in things that have never been apparent before. I hope you will find words to inspire whatever mood you may encounter.
