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days before that same,And bring you
by Melanie JonesThere surging
you yesterday and really about the
path to heavenfriend once again.Your handclasp
I thought about Had worn them
I'd walk the with your best
Smilesis nothing new
that, the passing therea lane,
home and be Amidst the quiet today but that
Though as for And heartache make
time to go With tears awashyou with love
wear;build a stairway
name and say's it is A significant moment
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If tears could God calls my
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by Marie AlaimoI am home
the better claim,in the heart.
know, and never forget. I will see you.”
But I’m never alone And having perhaps
they'll live on this you must
that I carried To you, I’m gone,fair
memory,will be mine. My best friend
It was then my own,
other, as just as as there is
I love you, and forever you of footprints,On butterflies’ wings, on wings of
Then took the for as long one last time
I’m Still Here
only one set of a prayer.
undergrowth;
thought apart,didn't tell you When you saw
In the heart bent in the more than a
regret that I and testings.
of a rose,To where it
can never beyet, With only one
Never, ever, during your trials In the heart as I couldThose we love
ready, no not just leave youme there
one as far one's gone.give you rest. I was not
and will never Wherever you look, you will find
And looked down because a loved you home to He whispered, “My precious child, I love you
of us all.traveler, long I stoodnever fade
best and took me.”who takes care
And be one and cherished memories gone with you, however God knows
You the most, You would leave Of the One both
lives on,why. I would have I don't understand why, when I needed
call, the callcould not travel for love itself
answers as to footprints.to answer the And sorry I
remain with usquestions and no one set of I have gone
wood,Those we love say goodbye? With so many
there was only tall.in a yellow by Unknown
leave and not my life,the world is Two roads diverged
trust in love.why did you troublesome times of
as wide as by Robert FrostI'll put my you to die. My best friend
saddest and most My soul is All is well.
is eliminated forever.my eyes, I wasn't ready for that during the
not so small.corner.
A Prayer For Animals
damaged or broken with tears in
But I noticed
gone I am
Just around the love ever being
into the heavens way.Where I have
Somewhere very near,possibility of that
goodbye, as I look me all the
by Jim HowardFor an interval,
through death. And theyou to say You'd walk with
by one,for you,
immortalized and eternalized day? I wasn't ready for
follow you,
calls us one I am waiting
Instead love is leave me that
I decided to
But as God
sight?
affected by death– It doesn't end, it doesn't diminish, it doesn't change.why did you
We Have A Secret
“Lord, you said once the same,
am out of is not
they say. Oh my love it.and nothing seems
mind because I know that love
we part, that is what the Lord about is broken,
be out of be content to
Until death do me, so I asked Our family chain
Why should I than death. So I must
would always there This really troubled
at our side.continuity.
Love is stronger you that I footprints.
You are always
There is unbroken by Unknownpromise that to
one set of cannot see you,
ever was;them.promise, to love, honor, and share. I kept my
there was only And though we
Tribute To A Best Friend
same as it of us, as we remember I kept my saddest times,
still our guide,
It is the now a part by Diana Johnson
very lowest and Your love is meant.For they are
all over again.
especially at the beautiful memories,that it ever
live,fall in love of my life,You left us
Life means all
as we live, they too will will mend and
along the path called you home.on it.For as long
strong and I at many times The day God of a shadow we remember them.
But I am I noticed that youWithout the trace
based on theirs the most…in the sand.us went with
spoken without effect,achievements that are
Treasured Friend
I needed you at the footprints
For part of Let it be When we have
You left when I looked back
go alone.it always was,remember them.
can't go on.me,You did not
household word that to share we
feel like you life flashed before you,
be ever the joy we crave until you
scene of my hearts to lose Let my name
When we have tear you apart After the last
It broke our want to, pray for me.we remember them.
It can also to my Lord.
do the same.and if you difficult to make
grand…me and one in death we
Play, smile, think of me decisions that are Love can be
One belonging to loved you dearly,we enjoyed together.
I Only Wanted You
When we have apart.
in the sand,In life we
the little jokes remember them.
find myself falling sets of footprints
call your name.always laughed at
at heart we And now I
For each scene, I noticed two God was to Laugh as we
lost and sick falling in love…
from my life.that morning
or sorrow.When we are
I found myself sky flashed scenes
We little knew air of solemnity
we remember them.goes,
Across the dark by Unknown
Wear no forced need of strength
As the story Lord.
call your namein your tone,
weary and in broken apart.
beach with my you'll hear me Put no difference
them. When we are
Two hearts now walking along the
Lend Me A Pup
roadalways used.of us. As we remember
as one…As I was down that lonely
way which you now a part Two hearts beating
dreamed a dream.for some day in the easy
live, for they are end.
One night I walk the same,
Speak to me we live, they too will hurt in the
Powersthat I may
name,As long as
Someone always gets by Margaret Fishback
you takemy old familiar them.
both…again.
know each step Call me by
ends we remember for one or
share our lives I'll want to
are.and when it
The hurt begins be until we for soon I'll follow you
to each other, that we still of the year
is gone…I’ll hold them, Love. Right here they’llthat long, lone path,
Whatever we were At the beginning
When the love my best friend walk slowly down
you.them.
tingly inside.are times I’ve shared withdo;
I am I, and you are autumn we remember
feel warm and memories you’ve given me one thing I'd have you
the next room.beauty of the
it makes one moment, we must part. The
remain,slipped away into and in the
timesfew tears – Yet for a
first and I
I have only of the leaves
stinks and other heart. So many blessings, so
Should you go at all.At the rustling
Sometimes love just My hand; you’ve held my
destroy
Death is nothing we remember them.
left inside you.years. You’ve held
that death cannot by Henry Scott-Hollandwarmth of summer
and emotionlives these many
The Last Battle
GodLast / Next Articleand in the thorn; pricking every feeling
We’ve shared our one gift of Article
of the skies hurt like a by T.C. Ring
and memory is Last / Next
At the blueness can also
die.cup of joy,—CS
we remember them.thing and it there, I did not
we've had our seeking you’ve already begun.rebirth of spring
such a wondrous I am not much of happiness
deeper into the and in the
Love can be and cry;
We've known so and move you of the buds
with.at my grave
life seem drollform to it At the opening
you to deal Do not stand
to make this ritual—reading, writing, running, drawing, cooking—that can give we remember them.
life has left shine at night.creep in
now is a chill of winter pieces
soft stars that no length'ning shadows ahall its trace. What you need
and in the up the broken I am the
the scroll,faith. Your seeking is of the wind
left to pick in circled flight.
to finish with You already have At the blowing
the only one
Of quiet birds remainsomething worthy there.we remember them.And you are
swift uplifting rushfirst and I there might be its going down there who cares,I am the Should you go our attention. Attention is faith’s form. It grants that
sun and at
one is out in the morning's hushon with hopewhich we give At the rising feel like no When you awaken will buoy me understanding and that them!Some days we gentle autumn rain.your helping handour tools for As we remember be alive.
I am the
the memory of
definition of faith: that disjuncture between
of us:good just to grain.may gropehere is one now a part it feels so sunlight on ripened though blindly I And I think For they are Some days it's roses and I am the smile,but the darklive;trail,snow.I'll see your not the starswe live, they too will is a saddened diamond glints on voice;countAs long as road once traveled I am the
I'll hear your at night I
by UnknownSome days the
blowshallowed spot
to wonder. Young writes:
dreams come true.by Bonnie Carnahan
thousand winds that will be a
what leads you for making your of life.I am a the wayuncomplicated belief—may be precisely Then thank Him by moment celebration sleep.each thing you've touched along misaligns you from you have.in the moment there, I do not be fought,before, open(ed) to another way. The nonbinary—the thing that day for all be gainedI am not for battles to what I knew Thank God every
that's left to and weep;first, and I remainslightly estranged from this love.strength is all at my grave Should you go back to meaning, I come back great example of to be, pain is forgotten, andDo not stand glimpse of youme into space. When I come friends are a it is meant by Mary FryeI'll catch a each line casts my dreams defense,your family and In life as hand.callof the known." In poems, the end of rear up in
to give, to love, to seek truth, beauty, and suffer pain.
walking hand in
in early fall, when brown leaves beyond the tips Love will always –by angels,lilacs blue,of knowing and gratitude and peace.you are alive We are touched when fades the of the lines package filled with is to know still they understand.roses red,along the lengths in a beautiful To know thyself doubting,in Spring I'll wait for unknown. As C. D. Wright writes: "[Poetry postulates] an inquiry extended and hope wrapped life?through times of
we've known
being with the
disappointment for faith
not celebrate its alonewith happy days work for me, a practice of my discouragement and why do we We are not memory's garden, dearPoetry is faith I am trading the night,peace and healing.I'll live in knowing.going to happen.and died in they bring us road alone
believing and not I thought was
morning,have flown
to walk the the entanglement between
to be, not necessarily what sang in the
when our dreams remain
doubt, this reminder of to what is the sparrow who
of darkness,first and I as loyalty to to pay attention life,In the hours Should you go conception of faith it is time To celebrate all nothing can destroy.by A.K. RowswellI love this And I think
are to live.
hope and comfort
difference.don’tME.the life we they bring us made all the for what we ME OR FORSAKE and dead to days of joy,And that has it knows—plentythem happen. HE WONT FORGET worldas in the by,for what
that will make
not know it, sleeping in the
sorrow,
one less traveled without a wordthe same God Alive and do In times of I took the of faith, is beliefmy dreams is alive?ahead.in a wood, and Ikindgave me all Time, days, years, go on, but are we through the days Two roads diverged
doubt keeps a can’t be found
that thing will
something to be
faith-defining poem?
good or bad, but I want
reconciling the validity astray and I
greater. With purpose, the work, not the self, is the site say: it risks failure. But failure focuses makes a claim and are we dog died Poetry (and now my size of the
beloved professor—taught me that poem of courage, but it is Fearing Failure and being brave in order to out there. I have an be well-received. The thought of poem for courage. I have ambitions who will love pour into those fixed, forever and forever to glimpse the of time. When you made offers you some something to hold of heartbreak, could a poem completely as heartbreak. Its simplicity feels I memorized this The poem ends,
friend.all the more
work through conflict—how and if
few rules, and that means
afforded the same a challenge that Dear Lost,love her forever way? Or perhaps never would be your on the line.with a specific of a pet
heart hold any decide this thing saved.Although my tail time you will firm and speak where to my You wouldn’t want me friendship must stand
hand,
— can’t be won.
my sleep,
be that I
All Is Well
with your faithful
my wishes to bitter grief that
But should I him while you the risk of
"Dear Lord, Thy Will Be my pup back
Nor think the I have chosen in search of
lessons taught belowthat he will you’ll always have
He’ll bring his 2 or 3and to mourn to you for
by one,is broken,
I’d walk the ever fill.In death, I love you
youI needed you,I never wanted a bark.
I shall not time for me spend down here
tearsHas called her Retrieve no more silent thoughts with
who used to Loss of a
my love,dish along the floor and empty
then I remember,abound.of carpet and
it’s where you Sunlight streams through and when I
And only I of me,
and touch your before we go each night in that no one ~Albert Schweitzer
friends to animalsheart of compassion
pity,
or frightened or
especially for those me friend, I’m every place!
while you sleep.
The Road Not Taken
salty tears that
trees,Lord up above When you start
starts to shine,raindrop that April quiet pond.
I’m the beautiful leaves when fall
I’m the warm I’m the brightest alive in your
feel, see or hear.heart, I long to I’m still here, though you don’t see.
It’s the bridge from Earth to those
recollectionsand to precious
It takes us forlorn and thin.
So if you
She ruled in She scratched the
my destiny,shelter, warmth, and food?homeless to my
Los of a from your life
caress the beloved friend finally meet, you cling together him faster and
are intent, his eager body and play together, but the day small thing; they each miss
remember them in are restored to are warm and
all of our dies who has Just this side
of some of you or someone bereaved souls!
and grieved deeply pet loss poem
unknown.expose the binary’s fallacy. A stable faith
that other thing—our belief in If we understand me to a
it is inherently nonbinary, and I'm having trouble Life has gone
Should You Go First
you to something
purpose, which is to ars poetica—a poem that voice,
and I’m sorry the task at hand. Fear diminishes focus. For you, Elizabeth Alexander’s "Ars Poetica #100: I Believe":
arrogance, fear amplifies the poet, was also my
share with you. It’s not a Sincerely,
your deepest fears get over that
putting my work art will not
I need a love towards those
growth. You deserve to writes: "For nothing is
you a perch forever. Sometimes forever isn’t a measure
hurt. I hope it of my grief—it offered me
pain spreads. What other story, in this moment my body as
friend.to say.
I loved my of close friendships
that how we our friends has
relationships. Friendship is not an exquisiteness and
Lostwhen you've promised yourself, and her, that you would
feels the same person you thought
to match. This week, Claire Schwartz is Poetry Rx, readers write in found a loss
Don’t let your Who has to
suffering, I have been to me.
I know in And hold me
Take me to years,
Your love and then stay your
For this — the last battle keep me from
If it should
cherish every moment If, by your love, you’ve managed
please brave the forever grateful stay?Will you love
will bringsay,
to takeyour love
life’s land
whole world overBut there are I cannot promise
be brief)him for me?
or 14 years, or maybe for he livesI will lend
calls us one Our family chain
The Broken Chain
a lane,
no one could dearly,
could have saved A million times
true.greet me with
knowWhen it is
He let her are filled with own
callAnd shared her
The little dog meet above.a blanket of
voice and unused vacant spot of
the hill,paws would joyously
down a hall then I remember,
bending grass.I pass
so young again, and free.and see ahead
youmy hand
you liesecret, you and I
of the merciful.to be true we ask a
Thy mercy and
desertedfor our friends, the animals,Just look for
dreams that come I’m the hot leaves on the to through the
is mine.when the sun The first warm
water in a blankets the ground.I’m the colorful
beyond your reach-sight-
you keep me I’m everything you
and within your me
usbridge of memories
always close to
And these fond days
pet poem…
Because you come she died.bed,house the law.
The master of To beg for Has brought you Rainbow Bridge together….
of your pet, so long gone face; your hands again and your special green grass, his legs carrying
distance. His bright eyes They all run happy and content, except for one
and strong again, just as we ill and old of food, water, and sunshine, and our friends and hills for
We are Not Alone
When an animal
of them:a small collection
that might help behind for other
in your shoes read a soothing
move into the that threatens to
and definitively not Dear Seeker,
define faith? Can you point in something because
many forms. I identify as Dear Poets,
your art connects
to articulate its I love the
is the human love, love, love,
self and the ego because, like hubris or
being a magnificent a poem I’d like to
to the world?speaks to overcoming
I need to
prevents me from afraid that my
Poets, your capacity to
a condition of
gift. But, as James Baldwin full it offered be her friend
by my own met the formlessness from me." Its title—simply, "Poem"—reminds me how
it. It lives in I loved my There’s nothing more
say it plain:made the end with that love. It also means
partnerships. How we love regulation of other heartbreak. It is both
Thank you,on? What do you
ever no longer do when the
the perfect poems In our column
I hope you close — we two — these years,
youFrom pain and kindness you do
no longer see.till the endcomes, please, let me go.
so many happy rest,But don’t let grief
be done,
And pain should loved you too.him that you’ve loved,
understand.you’ve planned,
happiness, you’ll knowhim with tenderness,
joys this pup I heard them
when I come give him all
fold that crowd I’ve looked the Earth return,
Footprints in the Sand
your grief.(should his stay
take care of Maybe for 12
love him while puppy poem…But as God back again.
and heartache make placeIn life, I loved you
If love alone you.well, maybe that is
For she will there, this much I love and loyalty.
yearsAlthough my eyes greater than my longer to my
upon my kneetreasured friend todayfriend until we
treasured memories in with the absent But I’ll take that road, and up beyond
it’s where your
Our feet walk the floor…..
can see the in every brook wind
walk woodland pathsliving warmth of I can reach I can see
We have a the blessingsMake us, ourselves,
them,them allare lost or
O God,a baby’s face.and the beautiful soft summer breeze.answer through the
you can talk the moon shine ray of light
the spring,The clear cool white snow that
beach.I’ll never be out of your
as long as gone but I’m always near.
night and dayFriend, please don’t mourn for dear ones near
There is a to bring us with us always.
to happier sunlit
Loss of a
all that,
heart the day
middle of my Became within my
to be
once another stood
twist of fate
Then you cross the trusting eyes
rain upon your
spotted, and when you
the group, flying over the
looks into the
be left behind.
gone by. The animals are
are made whole
who had been and play together. There is plenty
Celebration of Life
to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows
Rainbow Bridge.comfort in one
Below we present pet loss poems
some comforting words others have been it helpful to
steadies you to to harm anything
only bad—only one thing Seekerin something. How do you
reluctance to believe again in its —CS
hand, reminds you that does—because it dares
to each other?myself loudest)is not all
self between the a form of
purpose. Elizabeth Alexander—who, as well as I do have your vulnerable side
a poem that failure, and I know me and sometimes great artist, but I am
—CS
into you, to carry forward condition of loss. It is also lives. That is a
a moment so You promised to was less held
of this poem friend / He went away time I read
Alone Again
began—
from me.the haze to end—has few models. In my experience, this confusion has be gorgeously creative
ties or romantic governed by the you’re experiencing this ridiculous promise?
time to move and ever and What do you resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing
to your heart.~UnknownWe’ve been so it must be waved,
It is a Until my eyes Only, stay with me
When the time We have had day, more than the sad I understand,
do what must weakand know he
In memory of
and try to much sooner than And for the
Will you shelter For all the I fancied that
nor hate me Now will you
And from the pup to learn.since all from
as solace for you andhim back
he is gone.For you to
Loss of a the same.
and bring you build a stairway
In my heart, you hold a have died.
I cried.I only wanted are golden
darkAnd join her
And for her for the happy throne.
A voice far She’ll come no
Her gentle head I lost a for my best
I’ll wrap these and lay them is still.
heard along the then I remember,
To My Best Friend
are no more.
a spot on Iswimracing with the And only I and feel the And who but for who but a pet poem…shareand kindly words.who deal with We entreat for for any that prayer,you see on weeppresence in the I’ll whisper my to love you,the face in I’m the first bright blossom you’ll see in you’re so fond,and the pure you’re at the summer’s night.I’ll never wander free, but I’ll never departMy body is your side each love.It keeps our had to part.the heartthat will be years,there – come on in!I’d willingly relive And broke my And claimed the velvet pawday I ceased
The gate where
Oh what unhappy
from your heart.once more into parted again. The happy kisses
You have been to run from
suddenly stops and to them, who had to days and times hurt or maimed All the animals they can run to someone here, that pet goes a place called pet loss poems. May you find their bereavement journey.
find a few were to leave to know that
You might find in evangelical certainty. Faith is what quickly crumble. Or, more dangerously, we will wish only good or Sincerely,to have faith of any binary. I feel a am considering faith
of your attention.on the self. Purpose, on the other about what poetry not of interest Poetry (here I hear voice is rising)self. It puts the
fear can be a poem of Dear Fearing Failure,enough to bare get anywhere. Do you have intense fear of that mortally wounds
to become a you well back.who would pour and forever…" Things change. Change is a rest of your that forever-promise, you lived in
relief, too.so that I tell? The tiny form
incontrovertible: "I loved my poem the first Soft as it
Gates of Prayer – Reform Judaism Prayer Book
He went away
painful. For you, "Poem" by Langston Hughes, which cuts through and when friendships we get to
social (or legal) recognition as blood friendship is not I’m sorry that
and ever, no matter what? Was that a even did? Is it just
best friend forever Dear Poets,emotion and our poem that spoke
tears.to do;Don’t grieve that its last has agree
to meneeds they’ll tend.to suffer so.the test.For on this
You will be Then will you grow frail and bundle,achieve,
comescall him backmay?grief you’ll run.Done,"again?
labor vain,you.teachers true,I want this stay
his memoriescharms to gladden But will you, till I call for him when awhile a puppy, God said,~Vicky Holderand nothing seems path to heavenIf tears could
still.you never would a million times memories,
They say memories fear the transient to gowith me
I thank him to his golden her favorite ballme.
laypet dog poem…and keep them wall.
muted hall,it can’t be yours….. your golden voice A voice is
muted echoes sound…..used to lie, but now you window pane onto call, no one but
Love is Stronger than Death
can see you
your small form silken head?to bedfire glow?else shall know,
Another loss of
and so to and gentle hands and for those
hungry.who are suffering;Hear our humble I’m the smile
flow when you and you’ll feel my
Love Lives On
you.
thinking there’s no one and you’ll see that
will bring.I’m the first
flowers of which comes around
moist sand when star on a
heart.My spirit is
stay.I’m right by
that we call Heaven above…from whom we
are treasured in moments
If Tears Could Build a Stairway
back to brighter
Well, don’t just stand really think, oh cat
arrogance and pridefurniture and shed
While she, with purr and For from that
gate,pet cat poem…
Need Assistance
but never absent head, and you look
in joyous reunion, never to be faster.
Chris Silverthorne – Owner
quivers. Suddenly he begins comes when one
someone very special
our dreams of
health and vigor; those who were
comfortable.
special friends so
been especially close
of heaven is
