Moments in Time Poems of Grief and Healing
Moments in Time Poems of Grief and Healing

Author: Andrea Williamson

Publisher:

Published: 2016-09-18

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780996134644

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Andrea Williamson uses her own experiences to pose ideas of the "new normal" by memorializing her late husband after he suddenly lost his life in an auto accident. Williamson delivers poetry in this classic reflection on the issues of life with mourning and healing. Williamson also offers a personal analysis with her own experiences in hopes that dealing with grief allows one to be triumphant in the midst of the storm. Each poem allows you to inhibit love, comfort and the sense that you are not alone.

Moments in TIme
Moments in TIme

Author: Hilary Steel

Publisher: Perstone Press

Published: 2022-12-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781739253707

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Find comfort in moments of grief with this collection of poems written for grieving hearts. Grief is unique and to help you work through your own process, these poems are here to provide comfort when your mind wanders to the death of a loved one. Moments in Time is an empowering collection of poems helping you in times of sadness and grief - Helping you navigate your healing journey. Some poems are reflective, and some will make you smile, just as moments in life do. These poems, although centred around grief, offer hope that the pain you initially feel will subside as you look to remember much happier times spent with your loved one. Some poems are suitable to be used during funeral services, especially for Celebrations of Life, and you are welcome to adapt them accordingly as long as credit is given to the author, Hilary Steel. Carry this book with you and refer to it when you need to-grief never goes away, we simply learn to live with it. By finding comfort in words, it becomes much more bearable. From the back cover: "Hilary's writing included beautiful elements that captured my dearly beloved Ma, Val Gomez. It was an exquisite piece in an emotional service and the words will stay with me forever." Sharne Thorpe "I've never been so moved by poetry until I heard the one Hilary wrote for my uncle John. As a family, we will always be grateful for her compassion during such a difficult time." Carole Anderson "The poem Hilary wrote for my dad, Bob Woolston, was the perfect ending to the service, and a fitting tribute in his memory. Very uplifting and the talk of the wake." Paul Woolston "Hilary's poem for my father captured everything about his life in a way that took us away from our sadness and reminded us of such happy times and memorable milestones. She provided us with a fitting farewell to a much-loved dad, husband and friend and managed to combine beautifully the human and the heartfelt." Heidi Stonecliffe (KC)

The Art of Losing
The Art of Losing

Author: Kevin Young

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-05-05

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1620404842

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“Kevin Young has thoughtfully gathered many of these sorrowful perambulations and grievous plummets.” -Billy Collins The Art of Losing is the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning. Divided into five sections (Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals, Recovery, and Redemption), with poems by some of our most beloved poets as well as the best of the current generation of poets, The Art of Losing is the ideal gift for a loved one in a time of need and for use by therapists, ministers, rabbis, and palliative care workers who tend to those who are experiencing loss. Among the poets included: Elizabeth Alexander, W. H. Auden, Amy Clampitt, Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, Louise Gluck, Ted Hughes, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Larkin, Li-Young Lee, Philip Levine, Marianne Moore, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Derek Walcott, and James Wright.

Afterland
Afterland

Author: Mai Der Vang

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2017-04-04

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 1555979645

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The 2016 winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Carolyn Forché When I make the crossing, you must not be taken no matter what the current gives. When we reach the camp, there will be thousands like us. If I make it onto the plane, you must follow me to the roads and waiting pastures of America. We will not ride the water today on the shoulders of buffalo as we used to many years ago, nor will we forage for the sweetest mangoes. I am refugee. You are too. Cry, but do not weep. —from “Transmigration” Afterland is a powerful, essential collection of poetry that recounts with devastating detail the Hmong exodus from Laos and the fate of thousands of refugees seeking asylum. Mai Der Vang is telling the story of her own family, and by doing so, she also provides an essential history of the Hmong culture’s ongoing resilience in exile. Many of these poems are written in the voices of those fleeing unbearable violence after U.S. forces recruited Hmong fighters in Laos in the Secret War against communism, only to abandon them after that war went awry. That history is little known or understood, but the three hundred thousand Hmong now living in the United States are living proof of its aftermath. With poems of extraordinary force and grace, Afterland holds an original place in American poetry and lands with a sense of humanity saved, of outrage, of a deep tradition broken by war and ocean but still intact, remembered, and lived.

Moments in Mourning
Moments in Mourning

Author: Marianne McNeil Logan

Publisher:

Published: 2007-07

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781891774089

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A survivor after losing a mate of 42 years, Marianne McNeil Logan, a well-known rhyming poet, gently leads the reader through different stages of losing a loved one and into the light, discovering a new life is still possible. A poet with many accolades, three of her chapbooks have garnered five national awards and a Pulitzer Prize nomination.

Moments in Time
Moments in Time

Author: Mary-Elizabeth Cotton

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-10-05

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781540623720

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From lyrical and light to dark and somber, from humorous to painful, in this, her first volume of poetry, the poet speaks of many of life's "moments in time." May your heart travel through sunlight and shadow; may your soul be captivated by the beauty of nature and your mind refreshed in soothing waters Experience the feelings of life: from grief to ecstasy, love to distrust, laughter to tears. Impart on a journey through life's "moments in time" and enjoy the ride! (50% of profits on Amazon sales to a no-kill dog rescue/shelter!)

Poems of Healing
Poems of Healing

Author: Karl Kirchwey

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1101908254

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A remarkable Pocket Poets anthology of poems from around the world and across the centuries about illness and healing, both physical and spiritual. From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donne’s “Hymne to God My God, In My Sicknesse” and Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul has Bandaged moments” to Eavan Boland’s “Anorexic,” from W.H. Auden’s “Miss Gee” to Lucille Clifton’s “Cancer,” and from D.H. Lawrence’s “The Ship of Death” to Rafael Campo’s “Antidote” and Seamus Heaney’s “Miracle.” Here are poems from around the world, by Sappho, Milton, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Cavafy, and Omar Khayyam; by Stevens, Lowell, and Plath; by Zbigniew Herbert, Louise Bogan, Yehuda Amichai, Mark Strand, and Natalia Toledo. Messages of hope in the midst of pain—in such moving poems as Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World,” George Herbert’s “The Flower,” Wisława Szymborska’s “The End and the Beginning,” Gwendolyn Brooks’ “when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story” and Stevie Smith’s “Away, Melancholy”—make this the perfect gift to accompany anyone on a journey of healing. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

Love and Heartache Moments
Love and Heartache Moments

Author: Deborah Ann Martin

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-12-06

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13:

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Everyone loves those moments of being in love. What happens when one love leaves? There are moments of chaos Moments of healing Moments of discovering the real you Moments to live your best life Moments to date and find your true love. Our first love is a special kind of love. We met the perfect person who was everything to us. We wrapped our whole lives around them, changing to fit into their world. Some of us married and started to build a life, careers, family, house, and regular activities. Then one day, something happens. Our everyday lives are no longer normal. The other person doesn't want to be a part of our lives anymore. So we not only lose the person we loved and built our lives around, but everything else in our lives turns to chaos. Shared friends are gone, finances change, someone else wants to be a part of our kids' lives, in-laws who were family, and so much more. What's worse is the emotional roller coaster. Beginning again is hard. But what is impressive is that you discover the real you. Along this journey, we find our real true love. As we enjoy being ourselves, we find that person who loves the real us. This book captures those moments.

Quiet Moments
Quiet Moments

Author: Margie Martinez

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2014-11-17

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 1490856153

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Almost everyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one has also experienced seemingly endless quiet momentsmoments when it seems you cannot see past today and moments when tomorrow, as you knew it, seems nonexistent. In these moments, all thoughts rush back into memorymemory so vivid it seems impossible to grasp that the person lost is truly gone from your life. Quiet Moments allows the reader to reflect on living and dying as two inevitable facts. It encourages the reader to believe and trust in Gods power to begin healing and restore wholeness.

Night Light As It Rises
Night Light As It Rises

Author: Orna Ross

Publisher: Orna Ross

Published: 2022-02-27

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 1913588955

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Bright Star: 12 Poems to Inspire Book 2 An illustrated book of inspirational poems about grief, consolation, and carrying on. “Since my mum died I make sure to take time for honouring her and this spoke to that feeling... in those moments [of reading], it’s like she’s still here..” COZY CHAPTERS Night Light As It Rises is the second book in the Twelve Poems to Inspire series, a range of gift books for festivals like Valentine’s and Mother’s Day, and life occasions. These are poems that embrace the pain of grief and mourning, not so much about grief as fashioned of it, and reaching out from it to others experiencing the same emotions. In hard times, poetry helps. It offers an opportunity to reflect on sorrow, find gain in loss, fashion meaning, or experience grace in contemplation. In a group setting, a poetry reading allows everyone present to share a profound moment together and strengthens the bonds between those who mourn. These twelve beautifully illustrated poems inspire consolation for those who are grieving, whether their sorrow is for loved ones left or leaving, for endangered people or our imperiled planet, for personal failures and regrets. Each of the poems explores a different way to hold sorrow and offers a corresponding condolence. The poems do not shy away from suffering but whether considering a dark night of the soul, the hour before dawn or the struggle to keep going, this poet is always reminding us of the transformative power of love and time. The book is divided into three sections: Accept, Alight and Allow. Chosen and arranged by Orna Ross, each poem is appropriately illustrated with a picture from a contemporary photographer or artist. A beautiful gift of sympathy for a loved one in a time of need and for use by therapists, priests, ministers, rabbis, health professionals and palliative care workers who tend to those experiencing loss. More inspirational poems at: OrnaRoss.com/poetry