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Category Archives: Loss
Not One (New original poetry by Toni Love)
We gather together
Seen and unseen
When mothers pray
The heavens come forth to listen Continue reading
Posted in African American Children, African American Parenting, Artists, Black Families, Black Parents, Children, Grief, Health and wellness, Heroes, Hope, Life After 40, Loss, Oprah's Life Class, Original Poetry, Parenting, Peace, Poem, Poetry, Recreating yourself, Single Parenting, Uncategorized
Tagged Black lives matter, Children, current-events, march, million mom march, MOBS, mobs move philly, mothers, mothers of black sons, October events, original poetry, Peace, Philadelphia, philadelphia poet, Poem, poems, rally
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Born of Warriors- Original Poetry inspired by the #PhilandoCastile murder
Born of Warriors Now is not the time to sit down and grow weary For we are born of warriors Trained on soil rich with the spirits that passed before us We were selected from our tribe and trained for … Continue reading
9-11 Emergency – Original Poetry
9-11 Emergency This poem was written during a trip to New York City in 2009. As the taxi cab stopped in traffic I looked up and I was right in front of Engine 34. I felt the energy in the building and … Continue reading
Posted in African American Parenting, Grief, Health and wellness, Heroes, Hope, Loss, Original Poetry, Poetry
Tagged 9-11, 911, ancestors, current-events, death, Early Responders, NYC, poetry, Twin Towers, We Remember
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New Shoes: My Mother’s Day Gift from Above
Even though I was a mother myself, all of the Mother’s Day commercials with scenes of children hugging and delivering gifts and flowers to their mothers trickled into my joy like Chinese water torture. Continue reading
Posted in African American Children, Black Families, Children, Grief, Health and wellness, Holidays, Hope, Life After 40, Loss, Mother's Day, Parenting, Passion, Peace, Recreating yourself, Relationships, Single Parenting
Tagged a mother's love, ancestors, Children, children without mother's, Crossing over, Depression in Children, Grandmothers, Grief, grief and mothers day, grieveing mothers, loss, loss and mother's day, Love, Mother's Day, Motherless child, mothers, Mothers day without a mother, mothers who have transitioned, Parenting, Single Parents, surviving mother's day
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“Grief Waits” – Original Poetry by Toni Love
This was written a few weeks after my father transitioned, not for sympathy but to support the little girl inside yearning to tell her story. Not sure I’m finished with it, but here it is: Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, African American Parenting, Children, Grief, Health and wellness, Hope, Life After 40, Loss, Parenting, Poetry, Recreating yourself, Relationships, Single Parenting
Tagged ancestors, Childhood, Children, Depression in Children, Grief, grief and loss, inner child, life after loss, loss, original poetry, parenting and grief, Philly poet, poetry, rediscovering yourself, Single Parenting, Toni Love
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Life (for Elizabeth) Original Poem 11/23/14
Your breath became my own
and you exhaled life’s elixir into my lungs
as I was yet being formed Continue reading
Posted in Grief, Health and wellness, Hope, Loss, love, Mother's Day, Parenting, Peace, Poetry
Tagged ancestors, Children, life transitions, loss, loss of mother, Love, mother, original poetry, poetry
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Memories of a War Veteran..I have not forgotten
My Uncle was a Vietnam War Veteran. He was fortunate to be one of the ones to come home alive, but the person who left never really came home. He was sad, he was depressed, he struggled with the choices he was forced to make at war and never really felt comfortable in his skin when he came home. He was a walking casualty of war. Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Black Families, Grief, Health and wellness, Holidays, Hope, Loss, love, Peace
Tagged African American War Veterans, Childhood, loss, Memorial Day, Memories, Peace, PTSD, raw emotions, Remembering Vietnam Veterans, Untreated Depression in Veterans, Vietnam Veterans, Vietnam War
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It’s all Temporary (Memoirs in a Cast)
A good friend told me just a few days before my fracture, “even Superwoman has to put her cape in the dry cleaners for a few days” but Superwoman didn’t listen. I found out the hard way that when Superwoman is too stubborn to slow down, God sometimes does it for her. Continue reading
Posted in Black Parents, Children, Health and wellness, Hope, Life After 40, Loss, love, Parenting, Peace, Recreating yourself, Relationships, Single Parenting, Uncategorized
Tagged asking for help, broken, broken ankle, buddhism, everything is temporary, healing, health, independent mother, independent parent, its temporary, Parenting, Peace, physical therapy, Single Parenting, Superwoman, this too shall pass, women who do too much
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I Want To Get Off – Original poetry
So I beg you to stop playing with my heart
To unwrap yourself from my torso and release me
Let me walk away with my dignity, without feeling ashamed about what I let you do to me. Continue reading
