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hoot_owl_rn
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since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

0 posted 2006-01-23 10:31 PM

whispers of grief

whispers      soft
          muted
echoes  of a voice
I never heard
I reach
          grasping
through tear filled eyes
to touch
ebony hair I’ve memorized
and satiny skin caressed
until it seemed its texture
would become embedded
          forever
into my fingerprints

they handed you to me
at the moment of your birth
motionless and blue
and I loved you even then

I whisper        soft
           muted
cries into blanket of pink
and stone still form
too small to lie
unmoving
stone still form
to small to lie
cold and lifeless

I whisper     louder
          harsher
as if to breathe life
into those tiny lungs
until I no longer have the breath
          to cry

I try to envision you
my child
chasing the tail of a kite
reaching for the sky
running with glee
on legs that never moved

take me with you
to glide above Orion
chasing comets
and lighting the stars
with your laughter
let me play with you
if only for a minute
if only for one moment
let me see the child
you would have been

take me with you
let my tears become the rain
and my grief
the whisper of the wind
then perhaps I can live knowing
          you did not

I am nothing special...and my name will soon be forgotten,but I've loved another with all my heart and soul,and to me,this has always been enough.~N.S

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2006-01-23 10:42 PM

oh, so deeply
this reaches...
grabs the heartbeat

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

2 posted 2006-01-23 10:44 PM

hoot_owl_rn
An excellent write, enjoyed the read.

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

3 posted 2006-01-23 10:46 PM

Excellent write.

Martie

Moderator

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

4 posted 2006-01-23 11:00 PM

You've gotta know how much this touched me, Ruth. Heart hugs!

Bridget Shenachie
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since 2002-01-23

Posts 1056
Kansas USA

5 posted 2006-01-24 12:53 PM

I cannot imagine a grief worse than losing a child. You said it so well.

Shenachie

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

6 posted 2006-01-24 01:11 AM

Well said. Beautiful work.

Elizabeth Santos
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since 1999-11-08

Posts 9269
Pennsylvania

7 posted 2006-01-24 06:55 AM

Ruth,
I know you have witnessed so much in your nursing career, but you still poetically wring the raw emotions out of this experience.
I have goosebumps after readiing this
You are amazing
Liz

Fee
Member

since 2000-08-07

Posts 381
Melbourne, Australia

8 posted 2006-01-24 07:06 AM

Heart Moving,

Thank you for reminding me how precious life really is.

Big Hugs, Fee

Expressions,
are the most important aspects, they create impressions

0'.".'0 Just
((T)) Thinking
(..)(..) Of you
(```)_(```)

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

9 posted 2006-01-24 07:14 AM

Ruth

I felt this poem in the heart, it cicumvented my brain...landing in my soft spot...as do all poems, written of pain...

I enjoyed it, in many ways...

Well done and said...

______ _____ice
><>

CMGrimm
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since 2000-02-14

Posts 685
USA

10 posted 2006-01-24 08:18 PM

wow... I was just wondering if you were still around and I open up tonight and find this one... very well done

chris

Never be a carbon copy of anybody...make your own impressions. - ANON.

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

11 posted 2006-01-24 08:43 PM

take me with you
to glide above Orion
chasing comets
and lighting the stars
with your laughter
let me play with you
if only for a minute
if only for one moment
let me see the child
you would have been

~*~

Always, always,
the loss of what
should have been,
rises, to be
could have been,
and we treasure
what is, even more.

.

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

12 posted 2006-01-26 01:39 PM

Elizabeth Santos said you are a nurse, so I don't know if this was about your child, or another's. Either way, you have written this poem with such sensitivity and empathy that not even the coldest heart could possibly not be touched by it.

They say, and this I can understand deeply, that losing a child is the worst loss.

My prayers for the mother and child that this is about, and I am hoping that the mother isn't you.

What does RN stand for? - Presumably the N is nurse?

- Owl

hoot_owl_rn
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since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

13 posted 2006-01-26 03:22 PM

Thank you all for always welcoming me home with such gusto and support

Owl...check your email for answers to your questions

Ruth

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

14 posted 2006-01-26 05:52 PM

always, you write with such depth of feeling...
nice to see your words again

M

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

15 posted 2006-01-26 06:13 PM

Ruth, this touched a place deep inside.
Welcome home...
Heart hugs, Nancy

In the midst of winter,
I found there lives within me..
An invincible summer.

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

16 posted 2006-01-27 11:41 AM

These whispers shout into a heart... Beautiful write of compassion, dear lady!!

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

17 posted 2006-01-27 11:47 AM

Thanks hoot-owl-rn, but I haven't received it yet. Perhaps it will still arrive.

- Owl

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