It’s been a while since I wrote on here and I can see the traffic has been good so I was thinking maybe I should be writing here more often, providing you with more posts. So I’ll try and do a post once a week to update you all.
I’ve been working on a poetry collection about grief over the last few months. The title will be You Are Not Alone and that is the message I want to convey. We all go through grief at various points in our lives and we all deal with it in different ways. It’s important to realise that we are not alone in our feelings and others have been there before.
The poems I have shared have had a great response on social media with so many people saying how the words resonated with them. That is my biggest wish through all of this, that people who are in immense pain through grief find comfort in the words I use and it warms my heart to hear when it happens.
I have still been writing other poetry, especially paranormal haiku poems that I write under a pen name. I actually set up a prompt challenge on socials to inspire paranormal poetry but there have been no takers yet.
I also wrote a fantasy poem this week.
I will close with a poem from my new book, You Are Not Alone. See you next week.
I wonder
I wonder if, in heaven,
You’re greeted at the gates
And members of your family
Gather ’round in wait.
I wonder if, in heaven,
You see your special place
Or places that so long ago
Somehow fell from grace.
I wonder if, in heaven
You eat just what you like,
Instead of having to jump on
An underused exercise bike.
I wonder if, in heaven,
You sit upon a cloud
And watch over your loved ones,
Feeling very proud.
Jen Elvy
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