Poetry on the Loss of a Mother

When I lost my mother, I was advised to write letters to her. When I found this too difficult to do, the poetry about grief and my sadness over losing my mother just came naturally to me - almost as if Mom was working through me somehow. I wrote many poems during the first year after losing Mom, and I shared these poems with group members from the grief groups I joined on Facebook. I was told several times or more that people identified with my feelings and derived comfort from reading my p...