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Introducing 365 Days of Poetry

Friends, I started a little poetry podcast this month!

Please “Follow” 365 Days of Poetry on Spotify.

Why a poetry podcast? People have been suggesting I launch a podcast for a while. When I took a close look at the kinds of podcasts that exist, and the kinds I’d like to listen to, I realized, as Jimmy Buffet did, there was a “poet shortage” 😉
At least in representation in Podcast Land! If you have a favorite poem you’d like to send for me to read or an audio of YOU reading it, please do so!

Ongoing list of featured poems and poets, click HERE!

Additional details, including how to support this ministry, click HERE!

the triage of grief

They sat with me for hours in this spot. Sometimes talking. Much of the time just being still, gazing at Autumn’s tranquil beauty and listening to the sounds of the Lake. 

For some this may look like healing. 

I know with experienced certainty it is not. 

Not yet. 

This, this is the perpetual triage of raw grief. 

Keep the body still.

Regulate the breath.

Quiet the mind.

Assess the wound.

Allow tears, laughter or lethargy to come.

Keep in check the anger.

When there is energy, do something useful, purposeful.

Ardently cradle the sorrow when it assails.

Repeat.

We are each processing Riley’s death in ways we can. Thank you to everyone who has brought us meals, and sent us cards, and held me in your arms or with your spirit. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for your love. You are a blessing to us, to me. Thank you.

~ Twinkle

#ThatsWhatFriendsAreFor
#SoulSisters
#PiecesOfPeaceOnEarth

she stood there no more

“She Stood There”

In the midst of the shadows

In a darkness that haunted

She stood there still, silent, sorry, sad.

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Plenty of time to think of days gone by

Loves lost, loves gained; her sorrow remembered

She stood there still, silent, sorry.

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The seconds ticked to minutes

The minutes onto hours

She stood there still, silent.

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She realized she could not have it all

So she settled for less; but yet only the best

She stood there still.

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With her eyes wide open, her head held high

With a decision in mind

She stood there no more.

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By: “Twinkle” Marie Manning

Originally penned in 1989 on Prince Edward Island, Canada

First Published in 2009 in Poetry to Feed the Spirit, Poets of Central Florida Anthology

https://mariemanning.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/she-stood-there/

She Stood There