Moving On Death Poems

~dedicated to Anni who is moving on
to meet up with her beloved Carl~



alone behind
grey hospital walls
she picks up the phone
and calls each grand-daughter
to say a...

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SWEDISH DEATH CLEANING

"if you can't fit it all into your coffin, just chuck it in the bin"

Indiana Shaw . . . : )

"Things to do...

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Its the first day back to work after Christmas. The news is of snow dumps. Outside it's drizzling mostly, with small thin wisps of snow...

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When I was only seven and happy we moved

leaving my very best friend Spot behind

leaving a family member

I cried for many weeks

I missed my best...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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lesson two
 
silence is the partner
i need to befriend
for days the sun
won’t rise
to meet me

to look
beyond the rain
while the world takes its turn
at mourning the...

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lesson one

i wake up alone
for the first time
the silence is deafening

i want to get up
but every fiber in me
is dead weight

i want to call my...

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Its called just going through the motions
There's no quick fix, no magic potions
Day in, day out the goal is the same
Head up, stay strong. My...

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I'm a 68 year aged
ecofeminist Taoist,
Yin Unitarian and Yang Universalist
in a bicameral
dipolar co-arising 
Left/Right-UnWinged EarthCentric kind of way

Where "permacultural"
presumes death
and resumes life,
both multiculturally held together
in...

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Pain doesn't know time,
sometimes that hole
death left in your heart
refuses to heal.
And the pain remains
as fresh as it ever was,
an agonizing ache 
that never dulls.
But...

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Once the flowers are kissed by the morning dew and the sunrise at the same time it is time to move on and let others...

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It is often during nights like these that my heart aches with an upsetting realisation that seemed to worsen the void. 

During times like these that...

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I lost someone I used to love -
The father of my children
We divorced years ago;
And I grieved then

We kept in contact - 
Through the kids...

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Comatose and half dead
Yet hearing every word they said.
It couldn’t be worse for me or them. 
Expect my death, and pray-Amen....

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From far cliffs one sees a promised land
our leader calls for those courageous
Making a human bridge shapes our stand
deep river crossings, most dangerous
Hundreds make this...

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