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Living with Aliveness Each Day

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4/30/2025 My best friend, Pamela, died twenty-five years ago. Yet,.I can still see her dancing , green eyes, all aglow! I pondered me..as cold as ice, would one day become, She was fun, like my own sibling, loving and then some! All of us, will meet the same fate as she! But some carry their dead ones with them…endlessly? Write poems about them if you must…to God’s infinity. But to not love the living, is a sad, lost, morose destiny! So, no~ our family and friends cannnot ever be replaced . But, with a Creator they now live, in a holy, golden, place! Let them go…. don’t you understand, as it was their time? God took them home, be grateful and please do pen,happy rhymes. You live on a planet full of living humans, for you to respect with love, Toss into the trash, your beloved, graying, years old, burial gloves! Millions do needyour love, laughter and ever so much care, Have deep faith, get active…..feeling sad is the worst, soul-bear! On holidays, do not stay home, awash in salty, self-pitying tears! Instead, go help feed another, homeless human, who may be living in fear. I have lost so many loved ones in my long, long, gratefully, blessed life. I turn to my God, refusing mental anguish and years of boring strife! “ Honor the dead, but celebrate the living! And dance your heart away, at this wedding!” ~Author Unknown~

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Gershon Wolf

Date: 5/2/2025 9:02:00 AM

This is great, great advice... And now I see it is POTD. Rightly so. Life is to be lived while we have it, not to be mourned over. Excellent, Pangie! Way to go! To Life! L'chaim! Here's to a lifetime of Life. ~ Gershon

Panagiota Romios
Date: 5/2/2025 10:58:00 AM

Thank you, Fershon. I am reponding three hours after your pist, did you see that pienm as a POTD in actuality! Or was that your hope? I went over to the oem ofthe Day Site and it was not there.so I addumeyou envioned it that way.. it doesn’t natter what doesn’t matter is the people like you who felt it was a value. I really don’t like to be famous ever or adored or anything else.1 am no word wizard.Just one in the pocess of learning how to write poetry…L’Chaim in return.. Blessings Pangie and Family,

Robert L. Hinshaw

Date: 5/1/2025 4:18:00 PM

Splendid verse worthy of being selected as POTD! It's tough to see friends and loved-ones go and with them so many precious memories, but life goes on. The one consolation is that we will meet them in the great ByandBy! Bob

Panagiota Romios
Date: 5/1/2025 6:20:00 PM

They have gone life of you to say being worthy of a POGD but that’s OK if it’s not it doesn’t matter. It’s the POTD you use and that’s enough for me.! I believe as you do that we will see both people again. But I, all of your remember, heaven is not a second chance at life, and more importantly than that, we g tet tere t buto seeve God has been, less area open the retirement home or a golf course. I think some people think that I don’t , . there are bigger things we take care of. For God. We already had our. Chance. We did well. Thank you..Pangie.., hugs to your cat,!!

Darlene De Beaulieu

Date: 5/1/2025 2:46:00 PM

Hello Panagiota, I have lost a lot of close friends through death and my cat Sparkles. i miss her so much. My close friends were all older than me. Most of them passed because they were sick. Hugs. /Darlene/ xxx

Darlene De Beaulieu
Date: 5/2/2025 10:22:00 AM

Hello Panagikota , Sparkles is at the Rainbow Bridge. She is healthy and playing with other cats. While waiting for me. Right, i never think i may have another chance for tomorrow. I do miss my friends that have passed. My friends that passed were older than me. I will meet th4em one day again. Hugs. /Darlene/xxx

Panagiota Romios
Date: 5/1/2025 6:10:00 PM

I have been deaf and all year, not only an old people. Probably because between Chicago and Los Angeles. I just have a group of friends.. we’re probably right and young and suddenly they were gone, all the people will not, the ones that you know that died that long time ago way before me. We should never assume that we’ll have another chance tomorrow.. not true nobody has a deal with God that will be alive tomorrow because there are three or 12 or whatever. And I’m sorry you missed sparkle, but I told you what I thought you should do. I even offer sparkles to live with my ice cream cat at rainbow Bridge. You never told me if you would do that.. they have their house swimming pool they go to school. They do all those things.. so I know they’re happy. They don’t need me anymore.. and I can’t wait to see them after I die, thank you.Pangie

Elena Eagle

Date: 5/1/2025 6:47:00 AM

An amazing poem for today. A moving piece coming from your heart. Thank you for sharing your creativity with us.

Panagiota Romios
Date: 5/1/2025 8:28:00 AM

Hi Elena, i do not deserve such a great response. But thank you. It does not take impressive words to write basic truths. Live with the living,who can understand you and love you. Moroseness is selfishness. Only the living can light our souls.the dead are not here. We can lighten a living soul, the dead are on a higher plane with God.and have jobs to do for God, “ till death do us part” means what it says. Pangie

Mickey Grubb

Date: 5/1/2025 5:29:00 AM

This poem carries such a powerful and heartfelt message. It's a tender reminder for all of us to cherish the present, to love deeply, and to give back, even in the face of grief. You have penned a very special poem, Pangie.

Panagiota Romios
Date: 5/1/2025 8:42:00 AM

Hilda, youur comment is deep and moving. Those who are gone gave much to us, yes! We can only live now and carry on with joy. Sure, we remember them. Iused Pam as an exanple , to remind us, we too will have her fate. She loved life and lit up each moment with alight, I cannot even explain, not everyone islime that! I an sure she makes the angels laugh, supporting others counts a lot, celebrate the living. I value and celefrate you, Hilda and other poets here here.thank you, Pangie..

Chantelle Cooke

Date: 5/1/2025 5:17:00 AM

Beautiful Pangie...very touching to my heart. On May 3rd my Mom's Death Anniversary of 24 years is almost here. She was/is the most Beautiful Soul i ever met. She had green eyes too! She died in 2001 the same year as 9/11. Many have told me repeatedly over the years God took her in His arms because He needed her help with the souls that tragically perished that heartbreaking day. Thank you for this poem remembering your dear friend. I love you Pangie, Chantelle

Panagiota Romios
Date: 5/1/2025 8:56:00 AM

Dear Chantelle, your comment is so powerful abd touching, I suggedt, humbly, you consider writing a poem about her. What a sad year for you, 8/11, plus losing Mom.i havelost more than Pamela, but i Never met such a vibbrant human, not stuck on hers.elf and quite humble.My Mons birthday is May 10th. But I must be here now for other people. And find today’s bright stars. I have international friends who happen to be publised writers, they always have time for me., Celebrate the living! Thank you, Pangie,

Tom Cunningham

Date: 5/1/2025 3:25:00 AM

Sorry to hear about your friend Pangie, every day that we are alive we should be grateful for. Many are called because it was their time. We get some closure knowing they have gone to a better place. Tom

Panagiota Romios
Date: 5/1/2025 9:09:00 AM

Tom! Hello, heard your weather is superb! I do not moom over Pamela or my parenysor my dead husband who died at age 49! Learned from them they are like sweet echoes in my life. I do agree with you that for each day we should be grateful and I was hoping to die reunited with the devil.. need to be united with the living. I know from people who disagree that doesn’t matter.. my life has been filled with magical people most of whom are gone. Life John Denver who’s plane practic of when he was very young. I love young people in my life too, but so what? East one that I have to go on and go for my goals, I can’t believe the great people that were in my life and are. So I don’t cry over the dead.. We lived life so well and I learned from them! I would not be who I am without them. Thank you for commenting,,that means a lot. Pangie