Tag: Family of Origin
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When She Goes
When she goesIn her blue dressAnd pearls What will I do? When they send herInto the fireThe last I will see Of her How will I move? She’s all I can seeIn the ocean of my mindHer greyed hairHer drooping eyesHer tiredness Yet stronger stillIs her presence in meThe woman I knew30 years ago The…
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Are You Good Enough?
Struggling with feelings of never being good enough? Read this article to heal yourself
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Who Are You?
This poem is about my father who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2015. He died within 6 weeks of his diagnosis. After announcing his condition through email, he refused to see anyone for two whole weeks. He was a very independent and proud man who wanted to take care of business before letting people…
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Brother
You wondered once ifA poem I wrote was aboutYou ‘Tofu’ it was delicately calledA nickname for someoneSpecial, who tickledMy senses Appalled when you askedMe that question. I said‘No, it’s not you’ Never suspecting youWould be hurt. How was I supposedTo know what that questionMeant? All of my life I didn’tKnow that wordsWere not enoughTo convey…
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The Beloved
A long time ago, there lived a girl in a castle. It was an ivory tower, tall, pale and lonely. Encircling the castle was a huge and thick gray wall, dark and foreboding. It was made of heavy grey bricks so closely melded together it seemed to be one gigantic monolith. No matter how far…