Death and Dying

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All by way of saying…

To hear me read this, click below: This poem was published last week in Last Stanza Poetry Journal, a beautiful publication available here: Listen Sharing my home with four-legged Zen masters— liquid beings…

MelindaOctober 22, 2024

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The Turning

Gratitude for Autumn Leaves, Walking Today, in my silence, I can hear late September speaking with New England tongues to my open hands. Gratitude blossoms in colors; green and yellow, early russet and flaming orange.…

MelindaSeptember 30, 2024

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Eloquence as Legacy

My mother Victoria took prolific notes. Her handwriting was an elegant cursive, quite different from my chicken scratch (that even I have difficulty deciphering sometimes). She penned lovely postcards during her travels. Clever greeting cards…

MelindaJuly 1, 2024

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The Continuing Saga of Little Stream

A 2022 Story Part 11 You can read part 10 here: https://www.melindacoppola.com/little-stream-an…22-story-part-10 Part 11 “Lily Pond?” Little Stream called out again and again without answer into the bright air. Her voice was thin and…

MelindaFebruary 7, 2024

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Old into New

The Boathouses, Acrylic on canvas by Melinda Coppola Natura Illustratio Nature is a picture book of wisdom and example, an illustrated guide to how we could arrive, and live, and die. Take, for…

MelindaJanuary 2, 2024

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A Hole That Can’t Be Filled

Can you imagine being in such tremendous pain that the best path to freedom seems to be ending your life? Feeling so hopeless or worthless that you truly believe the world would be better off…

MelindaDecember 20, 2023

Death and Dying Healing Hope Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Writing

Little Stream and Wee Lily Pond ( A 2022 story, part 10)

A 2022 Story You can read part 9 here: https://www.melindacoppola.com/a-2022-story-part-9/ Part 10 It was dark, so very dark. Moonless and sunless. In a tunnel of deafening noise Little Stream’s watery body rolled and…

MelindaDecember 15, 2023

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Rhyming to Death

I started writing poetry when I was 8 or 9. My first notebooks were full of rhyme, crude as it may have been. Over the years my writing morphed into rambling narrative free verse. From…

MelindaSeptember 20, 2023

Death and Dying Healing Hope Meditation Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

A 2022 Story, Part 9

Part 9 You can read part 8 here: https://www.melindacoppola.com/a-2022-story-part-8 The skies grew dark earlier and Moon stayed longer. Sun still warmed the skies, but the air was crisp and cool. Trees on the banks of…

MelindaSeptember 17, 2023

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It Goes Like This

You smile down on me from a slightly precarious perch on the shelf above my messy desk. It’s my favorite photo of you—young and exuberantly happy, arms flung wide, dressed in colorful layers that reflect…

MelindaMarch 29, 2023

The Turning

Rhyming to Death

It Goes Like This

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