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    Modern Psalms: Poems for Those Who Mourn Loneliness and Loss
    Modern Psalms: Poems for Those Who Mourn Loneliness and Loss
    Modern Psalms: Poems for Those Who Mourn Loneliness and Loss
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    Modern Psalms: Poems for Those Who Mourn Loneliness and Loss

    By Bill Jacobks

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    Grief throws one down into a pit that seems to have no exit. Emotionsviolent emotions of loss, loneliness, and griefassault one. Sometimes one can only endure them and cry, no, sob. Sometimes one can laugh at them through ones tears. Thats what these poems are about: laugh, cry, endure, go on to the next day and the next attack of grief. The only hope is hope itselfraw, naked, confusing, terrifying, and ultimately, supportive. Read, cry, laugh, cry, and go on living. So it is.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateNov 3, 2017
    ISBN9781543461152
    Modern Psalms: Poems for Those Who Mourn Loneliness and Loss
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    Bill Jacobks

    Bill Jacobks was native of Chicago, then Austin, Tx where he went to graduate school at the University of Texas in history and political science. He and his wife moved to Muskegon, Mi. where he taught at Muskegon Community College and where his wife was Assistant Financial Aid Director. While at MCC he went to St. John’s Graduate Institute in Santa Fe, NM and received a degree, Master of Liberal Arts. He is retired. His wife died in 2017 and these poems and three other books of poems are the attempt to find a new life without her.

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