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It Is Time to Change the Books on My Night Table By Peggy Amler For the first year and beyond, I lived in my grief. My heartache was all that I could feel. I read books and writings on grief, and I wrote about my pain. That was the primary focus of my attention. That […]
Continue ReadingGrief Dialogues [https://griefdialogues.com/] OUR VISION: To create a compassionate, empathetic environment where sharing our stories about death and grief can help us and help others. OUR MISSION: Erase the stigma surrounding death and grief. OUR GOAL: Publish an anthology of plays, monologues, essays, poems and to produce a live theatre production that includes these submissions as well […]
Continue Reading“How long will the pain last?” a broken hearted mourner asked me. “All the rest of your Life.” I have to answer truthfully. We never quite forget. No matter how many years pass, we remember. The loss of a loved one is like a major operation. Part of us is removed, and we have a […]
Continue ReadingYou Would’ve Been by Stephanie J. DeMartino You would have been 70 had you lived today I would have bought you cake and came over to say Happy Birthday Dad, you’ve come a long way! You would have smiled at me and said something funny Told me I looked just like my Mother and called […]
Continue ReadingGrief Poem 124 Dayenu 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 cycle. First in the […]
Continue ReadingDear Larry, I was really touched by the latest email on grief, the one with Eric Clapton and his son Connor who died aged four years old. How hard that must have been and no doubt still is. You asked for people to respond with poems, suggestions so here goes. In recent years I’ve taken […]
Continue Reading‘I tried to heal myself’: Grieving Eric Clapton, 72, lived as a recluse in Antigua for a year after his son Conor, four, suffered a fatal 53-story fall from New York skyscraper. He was left distraught when his four-year-old son Conor fell to his death from the 53rd floor of a New York skyscraper in […]
Continue Reading[Editor’s Note: in honor of Black History Month, AfterTalk will be devoting this month’s AfterTalk Inspirationals to grieving in the African-American community] 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 […]
Continue ReadingWhen Great Souls Die [Editor: this is an excerpt from a poem entitled “When Great Trees Fall”] When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind words unsaid, promised walks never taken. Great […]
Continue Reading[Editor’s Note: in honor of Black History Month, AfterTalk will be devoting this month’s AfterTalk Inspirationals to grieving in the African-American community] A Grief Observed From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, the power and pain of black mourning. BY MYCHAL DENZEL SMITH June 22, 2017 Mamie Till-Mobley wrote her memoir, Death of Innocence: The Story of the […]
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