Written for: dVerse Poets Pub - Poetics: Small Change or Big Bucks (posted by msjadeli) "Good Tuesday, d’Versians! It’s Lisa, with Poetics. I know Spring is a time for new life, the end of a long winter, and hope is walking beside us along the path. Why then, does my mind turn to death and loss? Along with the light of Spring also walks the shadow of death in the forms of war, pestilence, environmental destruction, the quickly-approaching depletion of fossil energy fuel to power our machines, and billionaires desperately trying to get off of the planet while there is time." "Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (July 8, 1926 – August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-born psychiatrist, a pioneer in Near-death studies and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying (1969,) where she first discussed what is now known as the Kübler-Ross model. In this work she proposed the now famous Five Stages of Grief™ as a pattern of adjustment. These five stages of grief are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The five stages have since been adopted into The Kübler-Ross Change Curve™ by many corporations to train employees in change and loss." "Today’s challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to choose one or more of Kubler-Ross’ stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) to write about, in relation to your, or another’s, current state of being." I cannot deny the eye of grief when I am standing in front of the source. My little pal, ever at my side, has died. He lay on an afghan looking the very picture of peace. I touched his silky head gently, knowing he was already gone. And I cried, and cried, and cried. I have not passed over into anger nor any type of bargaining. A heavy stone lies across my heart. I look for him in all his favorite spots, especially next to me on the couch late at night, both of us sharing a blanket. https://dversepoets.com/2022/05/03/dverse-poetics-small-change-or-big-bucks/
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Sara, I felt your poem deeply. How you describe him and the “heavy stone across your heart” brings it so close.
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Thanks, Lisa.
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You’re welcome.
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Such a huge loss. Hugs.
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Thanks, VJ.
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Welcome!
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