Grief Poetry

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Step out of the dark and silent nights / To the blessed morning blue. / I feel your fear, caused by the cruel eyes looking at you. / Some strange trouble I am in / Find me if you can, in your true self.

The whole collection portrays the story of a woman who had to suffer the loss of her two newly born twins. She grieved over them for 12 long years but now she can’t bear the burden of emotional pain she carried for those long years. The time has come for her to make a choice.

Bruce Berger, the author, finally came home 50 years after the Vietnam war when his memories crystallized into the 34 poems in this chapbook. He shipped to Vietnam as an infantryman in 1970 but was assigned most of the year to the Casualty Branch of the 101st Airborne Division at Camp Eagle, near Phu Bai.

This is a small audiobook of poems for people who have lost a loved one.

My Heart Beats is a poetic heart-cry of the unborn innocents who have already perished and those who are destined to die. Some of what you will listen might sound harsh or confrontational. Truth sometimes comes across that way, even when the one penning the words does not intend to be harsh, just honest.

Asesinato. En este corto poema el autor relata en forma de diálogo un crimen que realmente ocurrió en la calle 42 de Nueva York. El relato de la violencia que este acto físico supuso le sirve al poeta para plasmar el dolor de su ánimo. Ciudad sin sueño. Intenta transmitir el poeta su propia insatisfacción por analogía con la noche, la vigilia, que no le permite dormir ni soñar ni encontrar alivio o esperanza. Navidad en el Hudson. En este poema identifica el protagonista su sensación de soledad con respecto al resto del mundo en el río Hudson.

It’s a dark and stormy night, and “The Raven”, read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, transports us to a lonely chamber illuminated by firelight. The inhabitant who becomes the narrator hears a gentle tapping at the chamber door. The tapping is a raven who speaks one word, “Nevermore."

La misteriosa visita de un cuervo parlante a la casa de un amante afligido, y del lento descenso hacia la locura de este último. El amante, que a menudo se ha identificado como un estudiante, llora la pérdida de su amada, Leonora. El cuervo negro, posado sobre un busto de Palas Atenea, parece azuzar su sufrimiento con la constante repetición de las palabras «Nunca más».

Blue Crayon is a collection of poetry and prose about mental health and endurance. Rowen Ingrid Parker explores the themes of love and survival in this moving and powerful collection of poems.

A powerful story of love, loss, and redemption. The slow fall from grace. The search for spirit. A journey back to light. A Week of Years takes listeners on a poetry-driven excursion into a young man's soul. Divided into seven days, each day serves as a life chapter. The author captures the pain of love lost and the struggle to find purpose and meaning beyond the end of innocence. A deeply personal journal, encompassed and enhanced by poetry that dances intimately with life’s many faces.

Saris and a Single Malt is a moving collection of poems written by a daughter for and about her mother. The audiobook spans the time from when the poet receives a phone call in New York City that her mother is in a hospital in New Delhi to the time she carries out her mother's last rites. The poems chronicle the author's physical and emotional journey as she flies to India, tries to fight the inevitable, and succumbs to the grief of living in a motherless world.

A collection of poems of various styles and lengths that are about heartache, loss, pain, and broken dreams.

You and Me and Cancer Makes Three is a poetical journey about survival from cancer. An uplifting and enduring tale of his journey with cancer. John held his hands around his own mortality, yet leaves the clinic whole, with much more than he ever expected: he discovers the true meaning of friendship, redemption, and hope as told in his poetry.

Ronald E. Hignite demonstrates in "A Time To Live And A Time To Die" his poetic skills and gives greater understanding and meaning to God's seasons for man as revealed by Solomon in the Book of Ecclesiastes. Listeners will be inspired by the manner in which Hignite presents the contrasts of the ever-changing seasons of man in poetry and rhyme.

Je kent Tim Hofman waarschijnlijk als presentator van programma's als Je Zal Het Maar Hebben of #BOOS, de documentaires van Spuiten & Slikken op Reis of anders als winnaar van Wie Is De Mol? 2016. Maar, zoals hij zelf zegt, televisie overkwam hem gewoon, zijn eigenlijke passie is altijd de rijmkunst geweest: het lezen, maar vooral toch het schrijven ervan. En dat blijkt, want sinds zijn veertiende schrijft Tim al gedichten.

El cuervo es un poema narrativo escrito por Edgar Allan Poe, publicado por primera vez en 1845. Constituye su composición poética más famosa, ya que le dio reconocimiento internacional. Son notables su musicalidad, el lenguaje estilizado y la atmósfera sobrenatural que logra recrear. El texto narra la misteriosa visita de un cuervo parlante a la casa de un amante afligido, y del lento descenso hacia la locura de este último.

Honeybee is a collection of raw, honest, and intimate conversations with oneself that lead you on a journey of reflection. By writing truthfully about the intricacies of her experiences, Rideau’s first collection of work is one that will speak to the very depths of those who read it, inspiring a will to question, heal and empower.

This exciting collection of free-form poetry with over 40 poems by Susan J. Farese, MSN, RN, is a sharing of both professional and personal thoughts and feelings. Susan is a strong advocate of the creative use of poetry to express the wonderment, frustration, dedication, and the love of nurses for their profession and their patients.

In the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and his immersion in Sangam literary traditions, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illuminates our deep-tangled interrelations.