Tag Archives: Grief

SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE – XLIII

Posted on December 9, 2018 by Elizabeth Barret-browning

How do I love you? Let me count how I do. I love you deeply, so highly, with a certainty, as my soul blindly extends, when with you our existence touches and we make eternity.

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TO MOURN

Posted on September 6, 2017 by David Scanlon

To mourn is to breath afresh Life of ones long lost care:       Let it not be self-conscious;       Let it not be sentimental;       Let the grief speak to us.

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WHAT DOES IT NEED TO MAKE A CHANGE?

Posted on June 16, 2017 by David Scanlon

What does it need to make a change And find the words ‘It will never happen again’ Who needs to die to shake up politics, And find the words ‘Get beyond our rhetoric’

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WHY?

Posted on May 26, 2017 by David Scanlon

With your innocence in my teardrops, With your isolation in our shattered dreams, With my vermilion cheeks of horror My morning pain opens. Covered in the colours of a dawn morning Why was this reddened pain brought upon us? Your … Continue reading →

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A PROUD MOMENT

Posted on May 14, 2017 by Parul Singhal

कल तक हर ग़म से अन्जानी, हो गयी अपनों से बेगानी। भूल के बचपन की नादानी, मेरी बेटी हो गयी आज सयानी।

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