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    The Broken Badge
    The Broken Badge
    The Broken Badge
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    The Broken Badge

    By Lydia Warner Miller

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    The Broken Badge is a collection of my poetry about grief. Although my writing is greatly influenced by my own experience as a police widow, everyone interprets these poems according to their unique life experiences.

    It is my hope that as you read my poems, that those with grieving hearts will realize that they are not alone on their journey, that others have felt all of the bewildering and sometimes out of control emotions too, and realize, eventually, we do smile and find laughter once again. I have tried to arrange my poems in an order to help guide one’s grief along, acknowledging the losses, anger, and fear that we feel, while also attempting to show that there still is joy out in the world…..it just may take a while to find it….or in my case, longer than some. But today, the sound of laughter once again fills my ears….and it is my own!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateSep 18, 2019
    ISBN9781796059861
    The Broken Badge
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    Lydia Warner Miller

    At the age of 24, while Lydia Warner Miller was pregnant with her first child, She suddenly lost her husband, a police officer who was 22 years old. Her writing became her voice, a vehicle to voice the pain that filled her soul, Today, Lydia Warner Miller's poems and artwork are utilized by law enforcement agencies throughout the country to honor their own fallen officers during memorial ceremonies and at other times.

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      The Broken Badge - Lydia Warner Miller

      Copyright © 2019 by Lydia Warner Miller.

      Library of Congress Control Number:   2019914283

      ISBN:       Hardcover                      978-1-7960-5988-5

                       Softcover                         978-1-7960-5987-8

                       eBook                              978-1-7960-5986-1

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Rev. date: 09/18/2019

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      CONTENTS

      The Man Behind The Badge

      A Blue Night

      Colors Within The Blue

      Blue Knights

      Angel of the Blue

      A Cop’s Christmas

      Policeman’s Tears

      The Cop

      The Broken Badge

      Oh Where, Oh Where

      I Wonder

      Born To Be a Cop

      Someone Special

      Somebody’s Daddy

      Why

      An Angel’s Kiss

      I Am

      A Remembrance Of

      Just Remember Me

      The Music Plays On

      Weep Thee Not

      Goodbye My Friend

      Badges of the Blue

      Tears Rained Down

      A Pair of Angel Wings

      Heaven’s Beat

      Blue Angels

      In God’s Arms

      The Wall

      Left Behind

      Blue Shirts

      Sorrow

      Too Deep For Words To Tell

      The Beat of A Broken Heart

      Rivers of Tears

      The Eyes Don’t Lie

      Just Pretend

      Endless Tears

      Despair

      Peace, Where Are Thou?

      Pieces of Broken Hearts

      Paper Daddy

      Faces

      A Man Today

      Traces of the Father

      Something Borrowed, Something Blue

      The Seasons of Man

      The Widow’s Badge

      And She Wept

      Alone at the Wall

      Always and Forever

      Will You Still Love My Face

      Just Five Minutes More

      A Mark Upon My Soul

      The Cycle of Life

      Old Lady

      Some Gave All

      Heaven’s Beat

      The Wall

      Heaven’s Pride

      Watching Heaven’s Colors

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