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My name is Rhonda. I'm a registered nurse, for the last 20 years, that has not been able to work since the day I learned of my daughter's death by suicide 4-12-13. (She actually died 4-11-13 and her body was not found until the 12th) Me and my husband have been married for 32 years and he's a wonderful man. We grieve in different ways. He works, I write. This is my journey through this horrible land of losing a child..
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Tag Archives: poems
Cosmos, Dandelions and Parachutes
One of my favorite poems that Kaitlyn wrote is “Dandelion.” I never knew of its existence until after she died and found where she had written it when she was in undergrad and it was in a publication they had. … Continue reading
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Tagged bipolar, children, cosmos, death, depression, family, grief, loss, mental health, mental illness, poems, poetry, suicide, universe, writing
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Falling Into Being
Falling into Being You, you with the clovers in your hair, your braided sun beams. Flowers and winged things. How you’ll never know the species of them, but you know them by their colors–their tiny reflected sunlights. You call them … Continue reading
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Angels
I was going through Kaitlyn’s old closet the other day and came across something her Nanny (her grandmother Elkins) gave her when she graduated High School. It was a big picture album full of pictures during her life and also … Continue reading
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Tagged angels, bipolar, children, death, depression, family, grief, loss, mental health, mental illness, poems, poetry, suicide
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Stephanie’s poem at her sister’s funeral
Kaitlyn’s funeral was a surreal event for me. I didn’t even feel like I was in my own body, or maybe I was in a dream. I remember all the kind words and the faces that voiced their sorrow to … Continue reading
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Tagged death, depression, funeral, grief, loss, mental health, mental illness, poems, suicide
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