Search results for Tag: "Loss"

The brilliance of grief – to all the men I’ve loved before

27 December 2018 0 comments

  To all the men I've loved before Who travelled in and out my door I'm glad they came along I dedicate this song To all the men I've loved before To all the men I once caressed And may...

Category: Musings | Tags: Acceptance, Courage, Grief, Loss, Love, Men, Romance

The brilliance of grief – for a role model

16 December 2018 0 comments

  Grief is like an uncut diamond. Each side when polished reveals the beauty inside. Each facet, once sharpened, displays the shimmering strength of what eventually emerges as the honed stone – atoms pushed together through the build up of...

Category: Musings | Tags: Expat life, Grandfather, Grief, Loss, Love

Any kind of love

14 December 2018 0 comments

Does it matter how I know you To love you Does it make a difference to Love To flow only down a certain path Blood Family Friends Intimacy Religion Nation-State Does the colour of my skin Risk our love Does...

Category: Poems | Tags: Grief, Loss, Love

Pain

02 April 2015 0 comments

If you get close enough to the shallow ledge of a deep well and look below there is nothing but dark. Nothing but nothing. It is so deep that you do not know if there's water or it's dry. You...

Category: Musings | Tags: Courage, Identity, Loss, Love

I searched for you in many places

20 November 2004 0 comments

I searched for you in many places Under the ancient roots of solid trees Hidden soft Between the powdered wings of dragonflies I didn’t find you in the brush of a lover’s kiss Nor in a baby’s needy touch Did...

Category: Poems | Tags: Grief, Loss, Love, Romance

My hands

20 January 2002 0 comments

these hands have lines these crooked ridges running across my palms bending with each of Life’s little visits where it knocked at my door and I turned to answer its guest with my solid hands one runs from the tips...

Category: Poems | Tags: Grief, Identity, Loss

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