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5 poems
by The Quiet Voice · 11 lines
We entered with flowers, photographs, folded programs. We left with the same things
Read, listen and shareby The Quiet Voice · 12 lines
I bring no flowers. She preferred tomatoes, new pencils,
Read, listen and shareby The Quiet Voice · 11 lines
Each birthday I grow older. My mother stays sixty-two, laughing in the last photograph
Read, listen and shareby The Quiet Voice · 11 lines
Someone left a coat on the back pew, navy wool, one loose button,
Read, listen and shareby The Quiet Voice · 10 lines
We signed beneath your photograph, our names suddenly evidence that we had stood in that room.
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Choose a poem that matches your own beliefs. Some pieces use faith language; others remain with memory, love, and the physical world.
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