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...
by Susie | Sep 20, 2011 | Articles., Carers Support, Health Issues, In Death, Multiple myeloma, Uncategorized
As this month embraces Autumn I recall the September of last year and the wretched struggles of that time. I suppose in retrospect this backward view, this sorrowful indulgence, is something that those bereaved need to do. A kind of summing up as you...
by Susie | Jul 20, 2011 | Carers Support, Health Issues, In Death, Lincolnshire, Multiple myeloma, My Family, Uncategorized
What will it say in years to come? What will it tell the folks who pass by and glance, reading the words I’ve chosen. How I wanted to tell a story on this tablet of stone. How I wanted to place so many words. Words that would have filled this oblong of granite....
by Susie | Apr 20, 2011 | Health Issues, In Death, Love poems, Multiple myeloma, Open Letters, Poetry, Uncategorized
I seem to wait for you these days, like longing for the sun to rise after a sleepless night. When believing that the bright morning rays that cast shadows across my floor, will remove this need from my heart. And still I wait. I wait for you like the excited...
by Susie | Apr 16, 2011 | Health Issues, In Death, Multiple myeloma, Uncategorized
Every week or so I take a little pot plant to Hamada’s grave to garnish in a small way the resting place of my beloved. I will continue this until his memorial stone is in place. We still have time to wait for that, as it is important that the ground settles and...
