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If Only: Inspirational Quote 5.12.16

By Larry Lynn | May 12, 2016 | 0 Comments

If Only  If only… The question that we face in our time of sorrow, So much life now gone, with no time to borrow If only… The hollow words replay throughout our every thought No child should pass and leave us in this hell where we’re now caught If only… The wretched emptiness could just […]

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Second Sowing: Inspirational Poem for 5.5.16

By Larry Lynn | May 5, 2016 | 0 Comments

Second Sowing  by Anne Morrow Lindbergh For whom The milk ungiven in the breast When the child is gone? For whom the love locked up in the heart That is left alone? That golden yield Split sod once, overflowed an August field, Threshed out in pain upon September’s floor, Now hoarded high in barns, a […]

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Grief Poem: Inspirational Quote for 4.28.16

By Larry Lynn | April 28, 2016 | 0 Comments

#112 A Grief Poem She walks in beauty, like the night I stole these words from Byron, and spoke them sotto voce when She walked through the door and across the room and into my soul until Death do us in. And Death done so, taking Her from me too soon in the fecund fullness […]

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Remember: Inspirational Quote for 4.21.16

By Larry Lynn | April 21, 2016 | 0 Comments

“Isn’t it weird,” I said, “the way you remember things, when someone’s gone?” What do you mean?” I ate another piece of waffle. “When my dad first died, all I could think about was that day. It’s taken me so long to be able to think back to before that, to everything else.” Wes was […]

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Grief Reunites: Inspirational Quote for 4.14.16

By Larry Lynn | April 14, 2016 | 0 Comments

“Grief reunites you with what you’ve lost. It’s a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that’s going away. You follow it a far as you can go. But finally,the grief goes away and you phase back into the world. Without him. And you can accept that. What the hell choice is there? […]

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Grief is a House: Inspirational Quote 4.7.16

By Larry Lynn | April 7, 2016 | 0 Comments

Grief is a House grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the […]

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When I Think of Death: Inspirational Quote 3.31.16

By Larry Lynn | March 31, 2016 | 0 Comments

When I think of death, and of late the idea has come with alarming frequency, I seem at peace with the idea that a day will dawn when I will no longer be among those living in this valley of strange humors. I can accept the idea of my own demise, but I am unable […]

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Someone is Missing: Inspirational Quote 3.24.16

By Larry Lynn | March 24, 2016 | 0 Comments

Someone is Missing… by Jennifer Malloch Every day since I lost my little girl Kimberly I wake up with the knowledge…someone is missing I go through my day and in the back of my mind I hear a whisper…someone is missing I sit down to dinner with my husband and son, and in the back […]

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The Turning Point: An Inspirational Quote 3.17.16

By Larry Lynn | March 17, 2016 | 0 Comments

[Editor: About The Turning Point: this post was a response to an earlier post about death by suicide. We thought the poem would be a great addition to our weekly Inspirational Quotes.  Rosemarie Wilder asked the following: “…and please mention New Hope for Kids. This organization helps children in grief and grants wishes to children […]

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Finally Home Inspirational Quote 3.10.16

By Larry Lynn | March 10, 2016 | 0 Comments

Finally Home by Jamie Zahradnik-Williams A beautiful mind that first thought of me A womb that kept me safe A smile that exploded The first time she saw my face Loving arms that cradled me Gentle hands that brushed my hair A contagious, vibrant laugh That still lingers in the air Two lips that kissed […]

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