March Winds You are gone and I have shed many tears I think of you as I face my fears Feeling as though I don’t belong What happened to our life song I feel the March winds blowing through the trees The bitter icy cold brings me to my knees Nothing will ever be the […]
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A Bronzeville Mother Loiters In Mississippi. Meanwhile, A Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon – Poem by Gwendolyn Brooks The murder of Emmett Till in 1955, and the subsequent acquittal of his murderers and public viewings of Till’s mutilated body, stirred the American consciousness and provoked outrage across the country. In 1960, Gwendolyn Brooks published her own
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Grief Poem 124: It Would Have Been Enough by R.L. Nona If we had been given one more year to watch the sun set on the far mountains, float on our backs in salt ponds shaded by ancient willows that protest the weight of their leaves, and hold each other close as the seasons
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My Love Didn’t End Anne Peterson My love didn’t end when you took your last breath, my love didn’t die when your eyes closed in death. If anything happened, I’m sure my love grew, from the tears that I’ve cried, and I still cry for you. When people are tired of the grief that
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Their Sweethearts and Their Darlings By Mary Jane Hurley Brant In Honor of Mothers Finding Meaning Again Nov. 28, 2019 The moon sighed The day they died Their sweethearts And their darlings The breezes fair Mothers touched their hair Their sweethearts And their darlings Their looks forlorn For loved children born
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