Tag: death
member name: HGM Moya Goatley
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June 27, 2006 09:25 AM EDT --
Tilly wandered to another graveside.
"Hello" she said to the sad-faced man "My Daddy's dead".
Her mother smiled apologetically as she led the child away.
"Darling" . . .
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May 19, 2006 04:06 PM EDT --
Shortly after Ma died my cousin's wife died in Ireland. I was about to ring her to say that would be with her within the week, when the phone rang with the news. She had died in the night. . . .
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August 13, 2006 06:59 AM EDT --
My friend Reg was old, had diabetes, was blind, deaf and had heart problems. He was also kind and had a sense of humour. He lived in an old people's home where there were few to stimulate . . .
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December 14, 2006 05:41 AM EST --
She suffered, succombed
To the life-stealing disease
That is depression.
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July 20, 2006 02:29 PM EDT --
Many years ago, as I pushed my baby in her pram I fell to thinking that there must be more to life. Emma was one of those babies who tranquilly slept and didn't need my full attention every waking . . .
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August 11, 2006 06:34 PM EDT --
I said "Your friends on Gather would love to be able to meet you".
"I'd love to meet them too" she said "I'll be getting my wings soon and I'll go and visit them all". . . .
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September 15, 2006 04:14 PM EDT --
Their work is now done
And so they drift to the earth
Yet they are not dead,
Alive in beauty's recall,
Of unstinting shade and shelter.
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May 19, 2006 03:37 PM EDT --
I'd like to have a funeral like that,
Like the one the old man, like Eric had
Where we talked of his life and we all sat
In an atmosphere - not overly sad.
Tasteful it was with music so lovely. . . .
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November 16, 2006 10:09 AM EST --
I wanted to die
But I hadn't paid my bills
Or said "I love you".
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June 16, 2007 05:59 PM EDT --
When I was a baby my mother put me in the care of my grandparents. With us lived my uncles and a cousin of theirs. Across the road lived another cousin and her children, Maureen and Ernest, . . .
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March 15, 2006 07:09 PM EST --
The sun shines, intensifies the golden glow of the rape field and glints on the man's shotgun.
He stands amid the swaying flowers, surveys the glorious scene with clouded eyes.
A single sharp sound . . .
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March 14, 2006 09:24 AM EST --
I mourn her passing
But delight in her freedom
To soar as she should.
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March 25, 2006 01:33 PM EST --
"Me? I'm fine. Thank you dear. I had to stop when I saw the cauliflowers. Lovely - and I think I've got a bit of cheese in the fridge.
Loves cauliflower cheese does my Charlie. Between you . . .
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June 30, 2006 04:59 PM EDT --
A gesture of faith-
Though old and so very tired
Washed her winter gloves.
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March 10, 2008 03:33 PM EDT --
The room had all the charms of a charity shop, a musty charity shop where donations lay unsorted and neglected. Boxes and baskets lay at odd angles over-flowing with sweaters, socks and underwear. A filled . . .
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April 04, 2006 07:31 PM EDT --
In a row of jewelled, wheelchair-bound women at the old peoples' party, Gracie sat hearing the music of another age.
"Alright Gracie"? shouted the young man volunteer.
"May I have . . .
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February 26, 2008 07:10 AM EST --
Don't let me die now. God, that's dramatic. I mean don't let me die with alcohol on my breath. Bit choosy how I should go and "she'd had a few drinks, you know" is not in the . . .
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May 07, 2006 04:36 PM EDT --
Noiselessly, gliding without pause comes the ghost, white draperies contrasting starkly with the black shadows of her bony appearance. Like a heavy cloak hair cascades over her wasted shoulders and frames . . .
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May 13, 2006 06:04 AM EDT --
"Give the hats away".
"You'll need them when winter comes".
"Not where I'm going".
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