Grief

Grief is an emotional reaction to profound change, death being the most profound of them all. If death is like the meteor that strikes from the sky, trauma is like a volcano, sending tremors through the lives of everyone in its wake.

Poetry and the arts—like the right kind of prayer—can help us to stay with grief long enough to feel its sweetness, long enough for the sweetness and grief to deepen our sensitivity to the exquisite agony and ecstasy that we call appreciation, praise, love … and life. We will find or write and recite the poems and prayers that resonate most deeply

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Poetry gives the griever not release from grief but companionship in grief.

Franz von Stuck