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Tag Archives: loss
Who Is Toni Love?
As you allow yourself to become immersed in the music and share in my journey, I am confident you will fall in love with love again! Continue reading
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June 3, 2016
Tagged following your passion, Indie artist, Joy, Life After 40, live poetry, loss, Love, love poems, Meet me on the moon, original poetry, Philadelphia poets, Philly open mic, Philly poet, Philly poetry, poems, poetry, poetry cd, relationships, Restoration, spoken word, The Collective, the restoration, Toni Love, Toni Love Project, writing
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The Day I Left God – Original Poetry from Toni Love
The Day I Left God I laid the red carnation on top of her casket Collapsing through showers of grief The sight of them lowering the flesh and bones of my mother Into the cold hard ground was too much … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Grief, Health and wellness, Hope, love, Parenting, Poem, Poetry
Tagged ancestors, dealing with grief, death, Grief, healing after a loss, life after loss, loss, original poetry, poetry
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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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Original Poetry 1/13/15
Undercover Lover If you were not there When empty souls glanced at me from a distance False eyes pierced at my heart And rainbows failed to caress me Then tell me my tainted love Why are you here now 1/13/15 … Continue reading
Posted in Hope, Keeping the Love Alive, Life After 40, love, Passion, Poetry, Recreating yourself, Relationships, Single Parenting
Tagged loss, Love, passion, poetry, romance
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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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Keeping it Real – Original Poetry 12/15/13
Will the calls and cards and letters
Soak up every grief-stained tear
Will his grandchildren cease to miss him
At graduations and weddings from year to year Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Children, Health and wellness, Holidays, Life After 40, love, Poetry, Relationships, Uncategorized
Tagged Daddy's girl, emotions, Grief, grieving, loss, mourning, poetry, Toni Love, transitions
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I’m back!
It’s been several months since I’ve written anything on my blog and I apologize to my loyal followers for the long absence. Continue reading
