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Death and Dying Family Hope Love Mindfulness Poem Poetry Writing

A Hole That Can’t Be Filled

Can you imagine being in such tremendous pain that the best path to freedom seems to be ending your life? Feeling so hopeless or worthless that you truly believe the world would be better off…

MelindaDecember 20, 2023

Death and Dying Healing Hope Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Writing

Little Stream and Wee Lily Pond ( A 2022 story, part 10)

A 2022 Story You can read part 9 here: https://www.melindacoppola.com/a-2022-story-part-9/ Part 10 It was dark, so very dark. Moonless and sunless. In a tunnel of deafening noise Little Stream’s watery body rolled and…

MelindaDecember 15, 2023

Death and Dying Family Hope Love Mindfulness Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Rhyming to Death

I started writing poetry when I was 8 or 9. My first notebooks were full of rhyme, crude as it may have been. Over the years my writing morphed into rambling narrative free verse. From…

MelindaSeptember 20, 2023

Death and Dying Healing Hope Meditation Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

A 2022 Story, Part 9

Part 9 You can read part 8 here: https://www.melindacoppola.com/a-2022-story-part-8 The skies grew dark earlier and Moon stayed longer. Sun still warmed the skies, but the air was crisp and cool. Trees on the banks of…

MelindaSeptember 17, 2023

Healing Hope Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

A 2022 Story, Part 8

A 2022 Story You can read part 7 here: https://www.melindacoppola.com/a-2022-story-part-7/ Part 8 Many suns and moons came and went as Little Stream and Wee Lily Pond tumbled along in the powerful pull of Big…

MelindaJuly 23, 2023

Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

Hush

I'm pleased that my poem, " Hush", was published in Amethyst Review today. Hush Is it by aging alone that I landed in this sparse, harsh forest, where most branches are sharp, all bark…

MelindaJune 8, 2023

Hope Mindfulness Nature Writing

A 2022 Story, Part 7

A 2022 Story, Part 7 You can read part 6 here: https://www.melindacoppola.com/a-2022-story-part-6/ Part 7 A spark of something wonderful rose inside Little Stream as she waited for Wee Lily Pond to push her towards…

MelindaMay 10, 2023

Death and Dying Love Mindfulness Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

It Goes Like This

You smile down on me from a slightly precarious perch on the shelf above my messy desk. It’s my favorite photo of you—young and exuberantly happy, arms flung wide, dressed in colorful layers that reflect…

MelindaMarch 29, 2023

Death and Dying Healing Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

A 2022 Story, Part 6

And why, you might be asking, is she still working on a 2022 story? We are, after all, a few sturdy strides into 2023 spring. The answer is in the story itself. If you’ve been…

MelindaMarch 25, 2023

Death and Dying Healing Love Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Women's Issues

A 2022 Story, Part 5

A 2022 Story You can read part four here: htts://www.melindacoppola.com/a-2022-story-part-4/ Part 5 Little Stream wasn’t sure Lily Pond had heard her question, so she asked again. “Wee Lily Pond, do you think there…

MelindaFebruary 24, 2023

Rhyming to Death

It Goes Like This

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