Tag Archives: Grief

An Invitation to Sink Down into a Poem and Overhear a Heck of a Healing Chat between the Titanic and American Poet and Performer Laura Brown-Lavoie

April 13, 2020 – 11:53 am

If I break a leg, I’ll go to a doctor. If I break my heart or if the world breaks my spirit, I will go to a poet…… The healing […]

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The Answer to the Question “Yes” – The Whimsy and the Wise Words for a Time of Shatter – Four Poems by American Poet Gregory Orr

March 26, 2020 – 3:58 pm

The last love poem I will ever write…. Will contain an invention for turning ant’s tears Into hummingbird wings. It will hold every Elegy the night sky ever wrote for […]

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Grief – Three Poems – Dickman, Stone & Inverarity

September 22, 2019 – 2:10 pm

Grief When grief comes to you as a purple gorilla you must count yourself lucky. You must offer her what’s left of your dinner, the book you were trying to […]

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Let Poetry Speak It – Grief but Also Happiness -For My Friends Laura and Walt – Their Son Killed in an Accident

April 30, 2018 – 5:18 pm

Meals of Grief & Happiness 1 I believe in the tears of an elephant. How they stamp the ground and forget they are in musth— panting—and cinnamon shrubs or piles […]

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Christian Wiman and Greg Orr — How To Lighten Grief’s Gravity

October 26, 2014 – 5:41 pm

I sometimes think art is useless in the face of extreme suffering, but then I remember Miklos Radnoti, Paul Celan, Anna Akhmatova, or Mandelstam—and I bow my head (to them) […]

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The Black Dog Speaks – Poetry and Depression – The Robin Williams’ Aftershock

August 17, 2014 – 3:11 pm

                                Depression in Winter There comes a little space between the south side of a […]

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Just What the Doctor Ordered – Poems That Make Grown Men Cry

April 27, 2014 – 11:34 pm

  If I break my leg, I’ll go to a doctor, If I break my heart or of the world breaks my spirit, I will go to a poet. Jeanette […]

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