Tag: death
group name: flashandshine
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September 30, 2006 05:33 PM EDT --
Before he died
he asked for a bowl of strawberries.
He knew he should not have them
But he said
"What the heck -
Death is coming no matter what
I eat."
So I went down by the . . . more
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April 14, 2007 06:22 AM EDT --
Dear Friends,
I wanted to let you know, I won't be online much for awhile. Dad was admitted to the hospital Tuesday with Puenomia. Test done also revealed he has cancer. It has . . . more
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December 04, 2006 04:49 AM EST --
A Compassionate Appeal
Carol Roach
We have all had our dealings with governments and their red tape. I know so many people who are trying to get disability and have been fighting the battle for . . . more
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May 21, 2007 04:04 PM EDT --
sunbaked fields of clay
cracked and brown, no life around
waiting for the rain
more
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October 20, 2006 08:47 AM EDT --
For N.B.D. (Written for my friend whose sorrow I cannot know)
There was no warning-
no sign or scream in the dark.
I didn't know.
There was no indication -
not one breath was taken away . . . more
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June 14, 2007 07:09 AM EDT --
A Doctor's Conversation With A Patient
by
Pamela Tyree Griffin
It’s like erasing a picture of fruit on a table -
then trying to recreate it and being . . . more
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April 22, 2007 12:46 PM EDT --
Today is Timothy and Nathaniel's 4th Birthday. Tim is here, Nate is not. Tim is full of joy, fire and love. Nate left Love, faith and hope. Tim climbs on everything, Nate climbed . . . more
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November 19, 2006 03:06 PM EST --
Embers of Hope
Embers die
and cast about,
upon the winds of Winters' breath.
Summers' passion long forgotten,
extinguished raging fire.
Hopes, remain
beyond the flame,
bring . . . more
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June 08, 2007 02:05 AM EDT --
A Beautiful Little Girl
Carol Roach
I was a little girl who knew the pain of rejection. Ever since my best friend left to go to another school while we were in the second grade, I had to . . . more
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October 10, 2007 06:34 PM EDT --
Divine wind
Bless the people
there and mine
Rapid like eagles
you whistled and wafted
off sidings,off shingles
You tossed and ripped
turned cars floating
some walls weren't . . . more
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October 08, 2006 08:36 PM EDT --
Hospice is not a place as much as it is a state of mind...
1. Palliative Care means that a dying person is given care that
is not curative; that will not sustain life. It will however,
ensure . . . more
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March 08, 2007 03:44 PM EST --
I had such an outpouring of sympahty and kind words from my Gather friends after I announced the passing of my father, I wanted to share something special I wrote about . . . more
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January 15, 2007 08:09 AM EST --
Some time ago, a woman with a gun in her hand demanded of me and my companions that we provide good reasons why life is worth living. Otherwise she was going to terminate us.
I thought to myself: "This . . . more
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August 06, 2007 02:20 AM EDT --
This is the first poem I ever wrote when I was sixteen, It was a journalism class assingment to wrote something short using the word. Wisp. I got an A+ on the paper because the poem allows one to . . . more
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August 10, 2007 05:38 PM EDT --
At the end of August, Krishna is writing the final line of his letter. A letter crammed with his dearth. He knows very well that, this is his last letter of his life. From last 7 years he was ailing with . . . more
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December 07, 2006 12:42 PM EST --
Time ticks
and ticks
and ticks
and goes,
much to quickly,
with The Reaper
waiting.
Age has wisdom,
knowing, "For Whom
The Bell Tolls...."
Being old brings no reprieve, . . . more
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May 02, 2007 07:05 AM EDT --
He dreamt of a reincarnation on the exact day that he was to die. And it was exactly after he woke up from the dream, restless, that he realized that he was about to die. The only thing he couldn't . . . more
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January 15, 2007 07:29 AM EST --
My companions and I are in some kind of a building and strange, inexplicable things begin to happen. Every time we open a door to some room, the room and the things in it have changed. People try . . . more
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January 22, 2007 04:34 AM EST --
My son is thirty years old now and I often wonder where the time has gone. It seems it was just yesterday when I turned around and he was a little boy. Unfortunately, a parent’s worst nightmare . . . more
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March 10, 2008 03:33 PM EDT --
The room had all the charms of a charity shop, a musty charity shop where donations lay unsorted and neglected. Boxes and baskets lay at odd angles over-flowing with sweaters, socks and underwear. A filled . . . more
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