by Amanda C Vesty | Jul 10, 2021 | Beliefs in Afterlife, Death, End of Life Planning, Poetry
The Ballard of the Penguin of Death – Method 412 The penguin softly calls you from his palace in the snow. Though every sinew holds you back you know that you must go. And when you’ve made the journey ‘cross the barren icy land, The Penguin simply nods and says, “I...
by Amanda C Vesty | Mar 30, 2021 | Death, Grief, Poetry, Uncategorised
TIME DOES NOT BRING RELIEF Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide; The old snows melt from every mountain-side, And last year’s...
by Amanda C Vesty | Mar 1, 2021 | Celebration of Life, Death, Environment, Poetry, Uncategorised
Fair Daffodils, we weep to seeYou haste away so soon;As yet the early-rising sunHas not attain’d his noon.Stay, stay,Until the hasting dayHas runBut to the even-song;And, having pray’d together, weWill go with you along. We have short time to stay,...
by Amanda C Vesty | Jan 12, 2021 | Children, Death, Grief, Poetry
A very beautiful heartbreaking and heart healing poem. Say Olin The time of concern is over. No longer am I asked how my wife is doing. Never is the name of our son mentioned to me. A curtain descends.The moment has passed. A life slips from frequent recall. There are...