Category: Bereaved Parents

Bereaved Parents, Family, Grief, marriage, Poetry, Writing

Just One More Day

Corrie's Mom

I held your hand after our daughter died ...

Bereaved Parents, bereavement, Child loss, Grief, Loss, Poetry, Writing

Of Lighthouses and Mermaids, a Corrie Poem

Corrie's Mom

Storms wash away paint on the lighthouse, and there's no repair.

Bereaved Parents, Child loss, Friends, Grief, inspiration, Life, Loss, Photos

Two Years and One Month after Corrie

Corrie's Mom

But that's why there are seasons to grief, and also friends, who are patient and stay nearby, will see a different you rise from the ashes.

Bereaved Parents, Child loss, Family, Photography, Photos, Poetry, Writing

We Must Awake: a Poem

Corrie's Mom

John Lennon’s Imagine comes on the radio, and I turn it off because there is nothing more I want to imagine than a world where we’re together with our little girl. You say to me, “We don’t need the music. Your voice is the most beautiful music to me.”

Bereaved Parents, Child loss, Family, flowers, Grief, inspiration, Photography, Photos

The Chain That was Broken

Corrie's Mom

Sometimes we can't replace the chain that was broken.

Bereaved Parents, Child loss, flowers, garden, Grief, inspiration, Poetry, Writing

Meet Me at Sunset, a Corrie Poem

Corrie's Mom

That is why I must stay until, as my daughter says, "Meet me at sunset just as the last colors cross the sky. You won't know the day or time, Mommy, but I will meet you at sunset as the last colors cross the sky."

Bereaved Parents, Child loss, flowers, garden, Grief, inspiration, Photography, Photos

Never Enough Lilies

Corrie's Mom

Corrie loved all flowers, and John and I each remember her different favorites. She not only picked them, but put on a show with the flowers. She'd ask me to put the flowers in her hair, or she'd do it herself. She'd put them on the grass, as the green was the background of a portrait, for me to take a picture.

Bereaved Parents, bereavement, children, garden, Grief, Joy, Life, Loss, nature, Photography, Photos, Writing

Into this Good Earth, Part 2: Ways We Remember Corrie and Each Other

Corrie's Mom

I knocked the soil loose. There is something I have to find, but I haven't located it, yet.

Bereaved Parents, children, flowers, garden, Life, Loss, Photography, Photos, Poetry

The Need for this Good Earth, Part I

Corrie's Mom

Each day, I did something new. Mostly, I prepared Corrie's garden and parts of the yard for new plants where some were that had not survived the winter. I was not ready last year to fully take care of the garden, but here below the mountain, in the sway of the wind and the sunlight, I heard my daughter calling me. "Mommy, come water the garden."

Bereaved Parents, Child loss, Grief, inspiration, Joy, Mental Health, Photos

Corrie’s Visit Made All Well with my Soul

Corrie's Mom

... but for the first time in a long time, my daughter, Corrie, visited me in a dream. Corrie's visit settled my soul.