Myra here.
I am glad to be joining the Poetry Friday community again – undoubtedly my favourite meme of the week in the kidlitosphere community. Our host today is Steps and Staircases.
As we continue with our Loss, Heartbreak, and Coming of Age bimonthly theme until first week of September, I try to look for poems that deal with grief and loss, heart ache and moving on. Naturally, I am led yet again to Mary Oliver’s poetry. For the past several weeks, we’ve been featuring picture books/YA lit which deal with death and bereavement, I thought if would be fitting to share When Death Comes by Mary Oliver for Poetry Friday.
I took a screenshot of the poem using my iPhone and edited it using FilterMania. Since the poem is quite long, the edits have been done in two-parts. Hope you like it, poetry-loving friends.
Gathering Books 
oh i love mary oliver’s poem too myra … thanks for your beautiful post, it caused me to gasp in amazement once more at her lyrical writing and non-dual view 🙂
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Mary Oliver – my favorite poet. And this, Myra, is my favorite poem – that last stanza is really my personal motto: I aspire to have made something particular and real of my life.
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Awesome poem!
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wow! What a powerful poem! Thanks for sharing. I’m currently reading The Fault in our Stars, a YA about a terminally ill cancer patient who is “living her best life.” I will have to get me some Mary Oliver!
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This is beautiful, Myra!
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Wonderful, Myra. You share such beauty in this theme. Thanks!
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Thank you for sharing, Myra. Mary Oliver is one of the greats!
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