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They'Re In a Better Place

They're in a Better Place This is not the time for well-intentioned testimony to ethereality so unfathomable as these deaths before me. Praise heaven and rejoice; disguised as consolation to me, fractured, who knows no better than grief; I have been left; let me rage; let me cry out in torment; let me. ©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins February 22, 2012

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Date: 6/5/2012 2:21:00 PM
Your anger is agonizingly portrayed... '...who knows no better than grief.' Consolation can be so hard to accept. God bless, Keith
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Date: 3/27/2012 9:15:00 AM
I relate to this one and I have a poem very much like it in my archives. I lost my son in 1999. I think from reading the comments that you lost a daughter? I am sorry. Thank you for your comments on my great grandma poem. It is so sad that they lived and died without leaving clues. Our poetry will save us from that fate. Love, Joyce
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Kathryn Collins
Date: 3/28/2012 10:02:00 AM
Thank you Joyce. Since you wrote your poem, my grandma has been flying around in my head. She often said "Don't take any wooden nickels" - my mom too. So for the first time I looked the meaning up today. It was some kind of coupon coin. I'm so sorry about your son. My Jeannie was 21 and died in a snowmobile accident (1995). love, Kathy
Date: 2/23/2012 10:20:00 PM
yes, I sure remember this one. A very good write with so much feeling to it. And your feelings that you need to get out from inside you.
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Kathryn Collins
Date: 2/24/2012 8:04:00 AM
Thanks Andrea.
Date: 2/22/2012 1:16:00 PM
What wonderful poetry you all are sharing with us today. I have enjoyed reading yours today Kathryn. I hope the rest of the week finds you with much inspiration in your heart and you will continue to share your writing. Love, Carol
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