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Poetry: Death of a parent

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  by Michelle Stilley

  Dear Mommy,
  I'm starting school today!
  I wish you weren't so far away.
  What if nobody likes me there?
  What if the teacher doesn't

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  by Blaize Shepherd

  Others say that you are gone,

  But your still here with me,

  sweet mom.

  I brush my childrens hair,

  the way you taught me too.

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  by Kathleen Sihock

  My Mommy is upset I can tell

  She lost her Daddy, he wasn't well

  He could not wait for me to be born

  Only three months to

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  by Virginia Wardell

  THAT LAST AUGUST DAY

  I see his face at least once a day.
  That infectious grin above the summer grey suit,
  The jaunty walk out

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  by Mariano Manuel Rodriguez

  I stand here, looking down upon that stone.

  The engraved name of someone ever so dear stands out, piercing my weeping heart.

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