Bereaved Parents, Child loss, children, Poetry, Writing

I Wanted: A Poem for my Son

There are man things I wanted, but the storms came to pass.

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

We Must Awake: a Poem

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

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

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

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

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

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

When the Daffodils Blossom … and a Corrie Poem

Wake me in the morning to see the daffodils. See how they bloom during a time when lovers bring flowers, chocolates, and declare a summer day in Paris on "vacay" kind of love to one another.

autism, Bereaved Parents, Family, flowers, garden, inspiration, Loss, Photography, Uncategorized, Writing

Our House, Our Story

he land itself tells stories of love and loss and of survival. There is a love deeper than the roots of the trees torn up by the tornado. Lives continue past the human experience. The family of John, Hayes, and I continues with Corrie inside us and on the land.

autism, Bereaved Parents, Child loss, children, Family, Life, parenting, Photography, Photos, Poetry, Writing

On Another Shore: A Photo Story Poem for Brother and Sister

You are always with me. We walk on different shores. When you dig your toes into the sand, know I dig my toes in the sand on another shore.

Bereaved Parents, children, Education, inspiration, Photography, Photos, Poetry, Writing

Maybe It Won’t Rain, a Poem

Never could I whistle, and never did time allow for my goodbyes to all the children I ever loved.

Bereaved Parents, Child loss, children, kindness, Photography

How We Remember Corrie