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3/21/2025 for Swimming in Grief Poetry Contest sponsored by Sara Jama

When a life well lived has ended, it leaves an incomprehensible hole. How can we ever conceive of the disappearance of a soul? Yet, I think what's even sadder is when the things that could have been remain undone, never flowering, finished before they could begin. A new mother, with undying love, how her heart is harshly torn by the unfathomable tragedy when her new baby is stillborn. Untold words of a lifelong, faithful friend, the words of passionate love that can no longer be spoken to a would-be lover up above. The unattempted dreams of a man afraid to try, only to himself, betray, a little grief each day, waves on a rock, slowly wearing those dreams away.

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Date: 3/21/2025 10:52:00 AM
i just commented on another poem about a school colleague having a still birth - it affected her mentally:-( the second stanza made me think of the song ' the living years' by Mike and the mechanics. hugs jan xx
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Date: 3/21/2025 11:52:00 AM
Thanks Jan! I hadn't heard that song - just on YouTube - yes! I have a friend who lost her teenage son about 15 years ago. I can only imagine. I think (hope) she's getting better.

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