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When the Bough Breaks - Poems
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General ParentingGeneral Poetry
Publisher Price: $8.95
Publisher: Diane Mintz
Published: Jul 17 2026
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In these poems Diane Mintz struggles to restore herself to life after the death of her son. Grief is the other side of love and no amount of will can forestall its cascade of exquisite pain. Through the process of writing these poems, allowing grief to take its toll, slowly she begins to feel the pulse of life again.
From Ode to Life
I stay alive for the children - the newborns,
the adolescents, the teenagers, the lost and the
searching, the groping and the yearning - who will
inherit our gorgeous and broken world. I wish them
luck and forbearance.
I stay alive to honor you my dear son. You who loved
so deeply. I am keeping your love for life alive.
May your memory live on.
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