To You the Living

By Marjorie Pizer

Poems of bereavement and death, comfort and healing,
for all those people who have lost someone they loved.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Pinchgut Press
• Release date: Dec 3, 2010
• ISBN: 9780980805697

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To You the Living

To You, The Living

Contents

Title

Introduction

Bereavement and Loss

Your Death

A Father Dead

After Seven Years

The Existence of Love

Nothing to Say

Dream

The Train Park Revisited

Anniversary

Memories

Funeral

Reminders

Dying of Cancer

Empty House

It is so Hard to Remember

End and Beginning

Out of the Crashing Thunder

For my Mother, Long After her Death

Memories of my father

Evanescence

Young Man Dead

Anniversary Lament for Joan

Garden of Remembrance

Collaroy Beach

For my Cousin, Nancy

Importances

For my Old Dog, Tippy

For Frisky

For Kiah

My Dead

Tears of all the World

Lament

Poem for a Parting

Despair and Healing

Lost in Despair

Into the depths

Anguish of the World

Retreat

The Everlasting Sea

Destruction and Creation

Overwhelmed

Healing

Strength

Courage

Stormy Waters

Rebirth

Paradox

Gifts

Web of the world

Who is to go?

Remembrance

I First Awoke

Index

Index of First Lines

To You, The Living

To You, The Living

A book of poems of 

bereavement and loss, 

comfort and healing

Marjorie Pizer

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