Rainbow Promises: A Collection of Poems Dealing with Grieving and Healing

By Raynette Eitel

Rainbow Promises is a collection of poems written from a place of grief. It will be understood by any who have experienced a loss of a loved one, whether a parent, spouse, child, or dearest friend. The metaphor of a rainbow as Gods gift to us is meant to give focus on the journey throughout grief and then to share Gods gift s as we heal. Grief is often described as a journey. This book can help you go on your journey comforted by prayer and happy memories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524599621

Raynette Eitel

Raynette Eitel spends her retirement days in a senior community in Las Vegas, where she regularly takes part in a writer's workshop and giving programs of her poetry. She enjoys entering poetry contests far and wide and has had the pleasure in past years of winning fi rst place in the Dancing Poetry Contest and watching as dancers choreographed the words from her poem, "Imagine the Harvest." Her poem, "At the Irish Pub" was entered in a poet laureate contest where it won fi rst place among several hundred entries. Both of these poems were published in MY HEART SINGS in 2011. Raynette grew up in New Mexico and then lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado where she was a wife, mother, teacher, and always a poet. She graduated from Colorado College and the University of Colorado. Her three daughters and seven grandchildren bring her memories to cherish of a life lived to the fullest. RAINBOW PROMISES is her sixth book of poetry published by X-Libris. She uses her books of poetry in fund raisers for her church and other organizations. Her books include HARSH COUNTRY, EARTHEN JAR, PRELUDES TO AN HALLELUJAH CHORD, MY HEART SINGS, and THE SEA IS CALLING; ISLANDS ANSWER

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Copyright © 2017 by Raynette Eitel.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2017904397

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5245-9964-5

      Softcover      978-1-5245-9963-8

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Rev. date: 03/24/2017

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Contents

Dedication

He Who Calms the Wind and Sea

Last Goodbye

Believe

The Day I Must Leave

Silver Tears

Not Alone

Search Out the Rainbow

The Fan Above Our Bed

A World Made of Dreams

Come Back to Me

Laughter Prayer

Grief

Comfort in the Night

Dreams Burning

The Elephant in the Room

So Near

Broken Dreams

You are Gone

At the End

The Kiss

Squeezing Words

Night Shadows Stirred

Darkness Hovering

This Other Place, the Gathering at the River

Broken-Hearted Sounds of Night

Ink of My Tears

Life Dance

Epitaph

Days of Grace

Jazz Tears

Love and Anguish

Going Under the Music for Comfort

Memory of You

All These Years After the Funeral

Plea Spoken by a Gravestone

Things that Make Me Cry

Afterglow

Symphony of Grief

Dreams Rescued

When I Am Gone

Grief Wrapped in Christmas

Dedication

One doesn’t get through life without a piece of grief or two to give us pause to think, cry, pray, and look to the future with hope. I dedicate this book to all those who have had a loss and seek a way to get through the terrible grief that follows. I was forty