Month: July 2021

A Poem about Losing a Child to Suicide-That All of Love Could Sweep Time Back

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date July 29, 2021

That All of Love Could Sweep Time Back That All of Love Could Sweep Time Back Should’ve, Would’ve, Could’ve, If I’d only Come to See, That might I future forward live To see all eternity. That I might know when and where somehow, And here and now then see, To erase the dark and stay […]

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“When Someone Takes His Own Life”-Depression and Suicide

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date July 24, 2021

Hope

“When Someone Takes His Own Life” Excerpt from “The Healing of Sorrow” Norman Vincent Peale In many ways, this seems the most tragic form of death. Certainly itcan entail more shock and grief for those who are left behind than anyother. And often the stigma of suicide is what rests most heavily onthose left behind. […]

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“When Someone is Too Bruised to Be Touched”-On Suicide, Despair, and Addiction

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date July 22, 2021
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Memorial Dates-When Grief Lingers After Losing A Child to Suicide, A Letter to My Son

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date July 15, 2021
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When Grief Lingers and Love Lives Forever- A Letter to My Son On Your 9th Memorial Date How to begin-where to begin. Infinity, I suppose, from whence we all come and to which we all go. God I miss you Dylan. More than heart can tell, more than words can express, oceans wide and galaxies […]

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Derecho: A Storm Out of Nowhere

Post author By Beth Brown
Post date July 9, 2021
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Heart heaving, this beating of tearsBreaking loose—All hell in earth’s upturned rupture Beth Brown, “Derecho” My Forever Son June 29, 2012–Funeral for my son. 101 degrees dropping to 73 degrees in a matter of minutes. Whirling wind. Gusts of whipping wind. Snapping wind. Dark skies. Clotted clouds. Midday sun going away–suddenly. A piercing dark. A […]

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