Loss
Poetry
The Rainbow Bridge poem was written in 1959 by Scottish teenager Edna Clyne-Rekhy after her dog died. Its true story, meaning and comfort for pet loss.
Broken Chain is a sympathy poem by Ron Tranmer, written when his own family lost someone. What it means, why it comforts, and how to use it with credit.
Who wrote the funeral poem Life Is But a Stopping Place? The honest answer, what the poem says, and gentle tips for reading it at a service.
Relationships
Grief is what love becomes when the person it was meant for is gone. Here is where the line comes from, and some gentle ways to get through the days that follow a loss.
Laura Gilpin's nine-line poem about a calf with one night to live: what it means, how it works, who Gilpin was, and where to read it in full.
The Dash by Linda Ellis is a 1996 poem about the line between birth and death dates on a tombstone, and how we spend the life it stands for.
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