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A Poem About Losing a Child: If Earth Were Sky and Sky Above

A Poem About Losing a Child: If Earth Were Sky and Sky Above If earth were sky and sky above Then heart could hold this ache of love, Suspended, like rain, in clouds wanting to fall, But bound to sun’s joy because heart touches all. I fall ‘ere so slowly most cannot yet tell My […]

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Beat Still My Heart: A Poem About Losing My Son to Suicide

Beat Still My Heart: A Poem About Losing My Son to Suicide Beat Still My Heart Beat still my heart, Beat still my mind, Weary though thou art, Carry his love along with thine, Though heavy on thy shoulders Crost fields throughout all time. In the deepest dark of the bleakest night, If light there […]

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Rain Comes to Heal Us All: A Poem of Love and Loss

Rain Comes to Heal Us All: A Poem of Love and Loss Rain Comes to Heal Us All Rain comes to heal us all, Falling tears from a sky of love, Remembering even when earth forgets To nurture all that we cannot forgive, Bringing love remembered to restore Even flowers that forget how to bloom […]

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I Will Seek Until I Find You-A Poem About Losing a Child

I Will Seek Until I Find You: A Poem About Losing a Child I Will Seek Until I Find You And where will you run when arms reach (but you’re not mine) When I can feel still so strongly (holding you still in my arms) From here frantic I search wildly (but cannot ever now […]

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Suicide: 19 Poems to Beat Still My Heart

New Book! Suicide: 19 Poems to Beat Still My Heart Suicide: 19 Poems to Beat Still My Heart reflects a decade of finding my way back after losing my son to suicide. These 19 poems reflect the deep sorrow, grief, and confusion left behind after losing a child to suicide. Suicide: 19 Poems to Beat […]

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I Send All the Love My Heart Can Hold: A Poem About Losing A Child

I Send All the Love My Heart Can Hold: A Poem About Losing a Child I Send All the Love My Heart Can Hold I send all the love my heart can hold, Crescent moon on a love-hinged night, To where earth holds sky, galaxies kiss stars, To space and time lacking the constraints and […]

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Sorrow Buried in Love: A Poem About Losing A Child

Sorrow Buried in Love-A Poem About Losing A Child Sorrow Buried in Love So swish to sway to sweet lullaby, Baby will fall in dark of the night. Rocking cradle to grave turning truth upside down: Parents die first leaving children behind. In a world topsy-turvy that cannot make sense, Sacred trust shines the brightest […]

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Surviving Your Child’s Suicide: Support, Resources, Hope

The following resources, book lists, narratives from parents who have lost a child to suicide, support groups, and more are meant to be a resource bank. Many have helped me keep on keeping on these past nine years of grieving.

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5 Ways Suicide Grief Is Different

5 Ways Suicide Grief Is Different Way 1: Blaming I received many compassionate words, cards, embraces, and acts of service when my son died. Dylan’s friends and family flocked to our house the morning of his death. They brought pastries from a local bakery, coffee, and huge condolences. Dylan’s friends gathered in our driveway, sequestered […]

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The Agony of Guilt in Grief: That All of Love Could Sweep Time Back

The Agony of Guilt in Grief: 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, […]

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Beat Still My Heart-A Poem About Losing a Child

Beat Still My Heart Beat still my heart Beat still my mind Weary though thou art Carry his love along with thine Though heavy on thy shoulders Crost fields throughout all time. In the deepest dark of the bleakest night, If light there be, the dark shuts it out. Around you all is swirling, hurtling […]

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Travel On My Brave Soldier-A Poem of Hope

Travel On Travel on my brave soldier Travel on wild one Take heart winged warrior Unencumbered take great strides. Ride dragon’s wings forever Stay free here evermore Follow infinity to the heavens Travel on to safer shores. ©Beth Brown, 2022 First time here? Listen to a Song

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The Unbearable Ache of Memorial Dates

The Unbearable Ache of Memorial Dates Now I know what day it is I wish I didn’t I am not in the moment Indeed, I am not Here really Here anywhere really Lost, just so terribly, terribly, terribly lost Wanting to save you Dylan All over again Grief Remembers What Time Cannot Forget: Memorial Dates […]

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Find Hope Here: Featuring Poems About Losing a Child

Find Hope Here: Featuring Poems About Losing a Child I write to heal the deep soul wound of losing a child. I find hope here, through writing, and healing in the way poetry shapes words. I hope you do, too. Find Hope Here: Featuring Poems About Losing a Child If Only a Mother’s Love Could […]

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Where to From Here When Now I Cannot Be? A Poem About Losing a Child

A Poem About Losing a Child Where to From Here When Now I Cannot Be? Ripped here from centre where body birthed son, Where son birthed the all of who now I am. How now to be and where must I go? When between stars and here I hear your constant echo? How now to […]

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If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You-A Poem About Losing a Child

If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You-A Poem About Losing a Child If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You Bones bear girth where once, wisdom birthed you. Love shaped curves That held me (and you)—too. If only a mother’s love could have saved you, Been there to catch your heart’s fall, […]

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“Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon”-A Poem about Losing a Child to Suicide

“Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon”-A Poem about Losing a Child to Suicide Once Upon a Blue-Sky Moon And once upon a blue-sky moon, We sailed our ships in your bedroom, With stars for light, we fled the dark But the lightening flashed, And the sky grew dark. You tucked away your childhood dreams On wings […]

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If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You-A Poem about Losing a Child to Suicide

If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You-A Poem About Losing a Child to Suicide If Only a Mother’s Love Could Have Saved You Bones bear girth where once, wisdom birthed you. Love shaped curves That held me (and you)—too. If only a mother’s love could have saved you, Been there to catch your […]

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He Left Too Soon: A Poem About Losing a Child

He Left Too Soon: A Poem About Losing a Child He Left Too Soon He left too soon— Lifting life from June, Casting torrents of rain His absence— Breath of pain whose exhale can only bring Heart heaving, this beating of tears Breaking loose— All hell in earth’s upturned rupture, Death shoveling shadows over me […]

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A Poem of Love, Loss, and Losing a Child to Suicide-“Tillers of the Earth and Tenders of the Soil”

Tillers of the Earth and Tenders of the Soil We are the tillers of the earth and the tenders of the soil. These trees and plants and water garden were here before us, and they will be here after we go. We take care of them that they might take care of us and that […]