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Discussion in 'Loss of Spouse' started by CPW, May 9, 2022.

  1. CPW

    CPW Member

    I had intended this thread to be for people to share poetry they'd written, but it seems folks have other needs. I'll just make this one last post here. The last few of a series of haiku I wrote through the 16 days Ned was home with hospice.

    Your eyes hurling words
    Mind refusing to let go
    Tibetan bowls ring

    This body’s tired
    Free your mind you can go now
    So many treasures

    Your children have gone
    Becalmed Cheyne Stokes breathing pause
    Hospice bed fits two

    Death cannot be proud
    It took your breath, not your mind
    Or eternal love
     
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  2. Rose69

    Rose69 Well-Known Member

    Hello, Carla,lovely words. I've never been good with words (unlike my husband), I admire people like you who manage to use poetical language to express inner thoughts. Like I said before, I have been looking up 'grief quotes' by famous poets lately and these are just a few I can so relate to right now:

    Two souls with but a single thought. Two hearts that beat as one.(John Keats)

    You have absorbed me. I have no sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving. (John Keats)

    Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward path had been lost. (Dante Alighieri)


    Though we need to weep your loss, you dwell in that safe place in our hearts, where no storm or night or pain can reach you. (J. O'Donohue)
     
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  3. Van Gogh

    Van Gogh Well-Known Member

    Rose, thank you for your grief quotations.
    Many of TGW are on an online site which
    was created by Dr. Alan Wolfelt, who
    has written many books on grief. It is
    called Center for Loss. If you give them
    your email address, they will send you a
    daily quoatation, by different authors, via
    email, at the same time every day. Dr,
    Wolfelt then gives his short personal
    explanation.Some of us, like Karen, share
    a particular quote with our group . After
    my wife, Linda , died , I listened to a sad,
    slow song , written by Gayle Caldwell, and
    sung by Frank Sinatra. At first, I cried, but
    now I listen to it often. It begins:
    " So I'm down, and so I'm out, but so are
    many others. So I feel like trying to hide
    my head 'neath these covers". It ends:
    "You know, it's almost funny, but things can't get worse than now. So, I'll keep on
    tryin' to sing, but please don't ask me
    now....,.,.,..." Lou
     
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  4. Rose69

    Rose69 Well-Known Member

    Thank you for that suggestion, Lou. I will take that into consideration. I looked up that song on Spotify, yes, it's so beautiful. The great Frank Sinatra, not surprised he was known as The Voice. No other singer has ever sung My Way the way he did.
     
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  5. Van Gogh

    Van Gogh Well-Known Member

    I agree about My Way, Rose. Paul Anka
    wrote the song for Sinatra to sing it.
    After Linda died, that was another song
    that made me cry. Now, I sing along with
    it, to get myself out the door in the
    morning. Lou
     
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