Category Archives: Loss

#This is Us – This is Me

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Toni Love

This episode brought back the deep sadness that I felt as the caretaker for my own mother. The hospice nurse coming to let us know that she had 48 hours left with us and the goodbyes we had to say as we stood sobbing by her side. It was the most heart wrenchingly beautiful moments I’ve ever experienced. Continue reading →

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TONIGHT! Poetic Memoir Intensive with #Ursula Rucker

Posted on January 30, 2022 by Toni Love

This intensive word/ thought/ emotion, self-truth-culling, seeks to be a journey of healing, art, therapy, and authentic conversations about life that will result in the creation of individual works/excerpts of EPIC memoir poetry. Each student is invited to perform their … Continue reading →

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Finally Over

Posted on February 6, 2021 by Toni Love

Original poetry from my book “Toni’s Room” Finally Over When I lost youI found myselfOh but it hurtIt pained for so longThinking of how foolish I had beenTo believe in youBut my hurt turned into poetryAnd danceAnd I wroteAnd dancedUntil … Continue reading →

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The Day I Left God – Performance Poetry with Sistahs Laying Down Hands, Mother’s Day 2018

Posted on May 23, 2018 by Toni Love

Mother’s Day is always bittersweet for me. I know as a Mother that there is pressure to smile and gush at the numerous mother’s day wishes, cards and love from my kids, but even after seventeen years, I still awaken … Continue reading →

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Not One (New original poetry by Toni Love)

Posted on October 12, 2016 by Toni Love

We gather together
Seen and unseen
When mothers pray
The heavens come forth to listen Continue reading →

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Born of Warriors- Original Poetry inspired by the #PhilandoCastile murder

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Toni Love

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 →

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9-11 Emergency – Original Poetry

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Toni Love

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 →

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New Shoes: My Mother’s Day Gift from Above

Posted on May 10, 2015 by Toni Love

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 →

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“Grief Waits” – Original Poetry by Toni Love

Posted on March 4, 2015 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 →

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Life (for Elizabeth) Original Poem 11/23/14

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Toni Love

Your breath became my own

and you exhaled life’s elixir into my lungs

as I was yet being formed Continue reading →

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