by Susie | Nov 22, 2012 | Carers Support, Health Issues, In Death, Multiple myeloma, Open Letters, Uncategorized
Hello from Colorado Dear Friend Susie, It has taken a while to get back to you though your words resonated and brought me such comfort. I am so grateful for your honesty and your ability to reach across the miles and speak so eloquently to what remains after the...
by Susie | Sep 4, 2012 | Carers Support, Health Issues, Love poems, Multiple myeloma, Poetry
For Those Who Need A Love Poem Today Love is a perfect note;love is a certain smile or a gentle touch.It is the dripping  juiciness of ripe mangos on a parched tongueor the smoothness of rippling silk as it touches your skinor perhaps the sweetest strawberry dipped...
by Susie | Aug 22, 2012 | Health Issues, Multiple myeloma, Open Letters, Uncategorized
An Open Letter: When we are in danger of losing a love one from serious illness we do everything within our power to search for a solution by means of medical help from every source we can find, to save them, and in so doing keep them with us. We lean on friends and...
by Susie | Jun 18, 2012 | In Death, Love poems, Multiple myeloma, Poetry, Uncategorized
As brush to palette, as hands to clayI sketch and mould my words.Nothing lustrous hereno bright and gaudy colours,no smooth or shaped sculptures,just simple truthful words to look beyond,between the lines to findthe crumbs of comfort I try to pen. Words...
by Susie | Dec 4, 2011 | Articles., Carers Support, Christmas poem, Health Issues, In Death, Love poems, Multiple myeloma, Poetry, Uncategorized
This week I received two very lovely comments regarding my poems, both in the same vein informing me how much folk enjoy them and how they helped them when grieving or in pain. Yes of course I receive daily comments, it would be unusual if you wrote a blog and never...
by Susie | Nov 22, 2011 | Articles., Carers Support, Health Issues, In Death, Love poems, Multiple myeloma, Poetry, Uncategorized
I felt it appropriate on this first anniversary to post again two poems written around this time last year. The first, the simple poem “This Rollercoaster Life†was written when I knew and needed to accept that there was no more that could be done for...
