Category Archives: Grieving

The redbuds and the pears

Posted on April 7, 2012 by dgermann

The redbuds and the pears The cherries and the apples Start the spring with shouts In the shape of flowers Riotous flowers The maples put forth Seeds on the wing The pin oaks get right Down to business New leaves … Continue reading →

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Endings are beginnings

Posted on April 7, 2012 by dgermann

Endings are beginnings :- Doug.

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The value to another when you try…

Posted on March 31, 2012 by dgermann

Never doubt The value to another When you try, not knowing if… When my parents died I told my friends online In that cold, impersonal, often cruel world And coming back to me Through those hard metal wires Among the … Continue reading →

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We mourn because

Posted on February 24, 2012 by dgermann

We mourn because we thought we’d have them forever with us, and now they are gone. And yet, we have them, just not in the flesh. We have them in imagination, in the marks of their spirits on ours. But … Continue reading →

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Our whole work

Posted on January 15, 2012 by dgermann

Our whole work is conversing, engaging, encountering, meeting: our whole work is bringing us to whole, our whole work is whole-making, whole-realizing. Our whole work is conversing. :- Doug.

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Your heart is ripped in two

Posted on October 19, 2011 by dgermann

Dead! Just like that! Your heart is ripped in two this wound never heals somehow from your dwindling blood comes a larger completeness of you compassion for others in varied pains from brokenness, wholeness :- Doug.

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Quotation: breaking heart

Posted on September 15, 2011 by dgermann

It’s better for the heart to break than not to break. Mary Oliver

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Quotation: grief

Posted on September 15, 2011 by dgermann

I don’t have much knowledge yet in grief– so this massive darkness makes me small. You be the master: make yourself fierce, break in: then your great transforming will happen to me, and my great grief cry will happen to … Continue reading →

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When there’s a hole in the world

Posted on August 31, 2011 by dgermann

When the beloved dies, let us be ready to ask in love: What will you miss? What did you not do you wish you had? What specific thing can you do to carry out in a larger way what you … Continue reading →

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Death brings a duty

Posted on June 27, 2011 by dgermann

Death brings a duty and we create ritual to remember and more, glassy waters in which to reflect :- Doug.

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Your grief-cursor

Posted on May 11, 2011 by dgermann

What would you write With your grief-cursor? What is the rhythm What the rhyme Of your father’s shrinking mind And future? Where the wholeness Can you help—or allow—the Circle to close This breach that feels so heavy, today? :- Doug.

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Very common

Posted on March 16, 2011 by dgermann

To die is very common: everyone does it. We do not have to fret over it: it will come as it comes and we have only a little say. But the say we have might be important to those around … Continue reading →

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Common

Posted on March 16, 2011 by dgermann

Touch a hand hear a pain hug a child make love make a Will drink hot chocolate with a friend worship To die is very common :- Doug.

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Mom’s flower bed

Posted on March 2, 2011 by dgermann

Mom’s flower bed Won’t get tended this year Dad is lost Sis will plant the annuals & I will weed Dad is lost & needs our help Our children will be calling us & life does tug Dad is becoming … Continue reading →

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Living life alone

Posted on February 19, 2011 by dgermann

How does one live life, alone, Without another to share? How does one await death? And yet, awaiting death Is not the object of our years, But living the moments, Giving the moments. One must find, Or let one’s self … Continue reading →

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Larger than the law

Posted on February 19, 2011 by dgermann

The world is larger than the law Than medicine and finance all These speak not or too seldom of— The widower’s lostness and having no one to call home Eight year olds chasing away from casket White chickens and red … Continue reading →

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Death ends a work…

Posted on February 16, 2011 by dgermann

Death— Ends a work Starts a work Life continues Stops our tracks Brings up histories Makes room Dumps good with bad Throws us together Raises questions of peace, justice, love How shall we together? Or shall we? :- Doug.

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