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Jul 06, 2019 | Rating : | Written by Maurice Beres

Reflections On Grief 7/6/19 Read Count : 197

Category : Poems

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I have been asked by some of you about my grieving experience as it relates to writing 
There are a few examples of my mindset 
as I went through the grieving and healing process 
To those of you who asked because you are yourselves grieving- though the death of my son Marc occurred thirty years ago and much healing has taken 
place one is  never totally healed but has learned how to deal with the pain
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   The Contradictions Of Grief   3/21/91 
             I write to relieve the pain
                        Yet-at Times
              I cannot write because of it  
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                   Poetry In Black   3/30/91
Did you ever read the messages
 on the obit page
 There is really some great poetry there
  Not because they’re great poets
  But because they hurt so much
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                   Meredith Malloy  8/13/90
                     (Her Book Of Poetry) 
I was struck by the beauty of your words
I saw your, honesty, your pain, your humor, your sadness, but most of all
your disappointment 
It was then that I truly saw your beauty 
In your words I saw myself

Comments

Jul 06, 2019
i lost my parents more than 10 years ago and though i have moved on,i have realised life is never the same without them.When people u love depart ,they take a fraction of hour heart with them

Jul 07, 2019
"I write to relieve the pain, yet at times, I cannot write because of it". I love that as it resonates with me. 'Grief', if you think about it, may come in many shapes and forms, and not only through the loss of a loved one, though that is the deepest and hardest grief of all. I have experienced the lost of loved ones and the one that hit me the hardest was when i lost my uncle in 2011. I felt like a big part of me died too. It took me years to recover and the thing that finally helped me was a knowing fact that he wouldn't have wanted to see me that way - lost, inconsolable and depressed. Having him come to visit me in my dreams regularly, helped me with my recovery. Fast forward to these past couple of months, if you'd noticed, i havent been doing much writing in here. That's because i was dealing with another kind of grief - my divorce. I have been focusing on myself, finding the right kind of healing and with the grace of God, i had found the remedy. And im ready to write and share my healing journey here soon.

Jul 07, 2019