The Strength Of A Daisy
For beloved sister Anne, who lost a fierce war with cancer22 total reviews
Comment from Bill Pinder
Very sorry for your loss. Thankful that you were very close with your sister. Excellent poem that is very well written as a tribute to her. Keep writing and take care. Bill
reply by the author on 03-Aug-2020
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Very sorry for your loss. Thankful that you were very close with your sister. Excellent poem that is very well written as a tribute to her. Keep writing and take care. Bill
Comment Written 03-Aug-2020
reply by the author on 03-Aug-2020
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Thank you for the wonderful review, and the six stars. I am wondering when I will feel better.
Terry
Comment from patcelaw
My condolences on your loss and I pray God will comfort your hearts. May you forever be thankful for the life of your sister and rejoice in knowing you will be with her again one day.
Patricia
reply by the author on 07-Jul-2020
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My condolences on your loss and I pray God will comfort your hearts. May you forever be thankful for the life of your sister and rejoice in knowing you will be with her again one day.
Patricia
Comment Written 07-Jul-2020
reply by the author on 07-Jul-2020
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Thank you for your nice review and kind words Patricia. And I do believe I will be with her again one day. Right now I find the pain almost unbearable, I guess I expected that. I just pray.
Terry
Comment from Janice Canerdy
This is a very beautiful, touching poem. It has made me smile--and tear up. I have a brother with advanced cancer and find your descriptions and metaphors so appealing!
reply by the author on 07-Jul-2020
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This is a very beautiful, touching poem. It has made me smile--and tear up. I have a brother with advanced cancer and find your descriptions and metaphors so appealing!
Comment Written 07-Jul-2020
reply by the author on 07-Jul-2020
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Thank you so much Janice, for both the lovely review and the emotions you described. I?m so sorry about your brother. Losing who we grew up with is unbelievably painful. I just pray and wait for things to get better.
Terry
Comment from Gypsy Blue Rose
For beloved sister Anne, who lost a fierce war with cancer
The Strength Of A Daisy
by Therese Caron
Hello, Therese,
I'm sorry for your Loss. How hard it must be. I think writing about it helps, I know it has helped me. The poem is very well written and very heartfelt and honest. The best kind.
reply by the author on 07-Jul-2020
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For beloved sister Anne, who lost a fierce war with cancer
The Strength Of A Daisy
by Therese Caron
Hello, Therese,
I'm sorry for your Loss. How hard it must be. I think writing about it helps, I know it has helped me. The poem is very well written and very heartfelt and honest. The best kind.
Comment Written 07-Jul-2020
reply by the author on 07-Jul-2020
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Thank you so much for your excellent review and heartfelt words. It is very hard, and I don?t see it getting easy anytime soon. My sisters are a part of me. I feel fractured. I just pray.
Terry
Comment from Mastery
One can readily see that your heart is truly in the writing of this entire poem, Theresa. Sorry about your sister. Cancer is vicious and hurts so many families in so many ways. Watching the suffering is the worst part, i think. God bless her and you, my friend. I liked this part of your poem the most:
"Daisies appear so fragile, soft and white
Their very strength is not within our sight
Their roots hold fast, their petals hang on tight
Through wind and rain, they make it through the night.
Again, sorry. (: Bob
reply by the author on 07-Jul-2020
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One can readily see that your heart is truly in the writing of this entire poem, Theresa. Sorry about your sister. Cancer is vicious and hurts so many families in so many ways. Watching the suffering is the worst part, i think. God bless her and you, my friend. I liked this part of your poem the most:
"Daisies appear so fragile, soft and white
Their very strength is not within our sight
Their roots hold fast, their petals hang on tight
Through wind and rain, they make it through the night.
Again, sorry. (: Bob
Comment Written 07-Jul-2020
reply by the author on 07-Jul-2020
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Thank you so much, Bob, for your lovely review. Thank you also for pointing out your favorite stanza. I often do that when reviewing. When I decided to write this poem, I looked up what the heartiest flowers were and was very surprised to find that the daisy is one of them. She is at peace now and there is some comfort there. She suffered terribly. Now we are left to grieve and although I knew it would be terrible, I had no idea how unbearable this pain was going to be. Thank you again for your kind words.
Terry
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Heartbreak and death are the two most difficult emotions for we humans to endure. Sorry. One day at a time is all that really helps, Therese. Bob
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Thank you
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: ) So welcome, Therese. Bob
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So she has told me in so many words, Karenina. She worked in the V A hospital on Long Island for years. : ) Bob
Comment from A. Willow Bends
This is such an incredibly touching and lovely tribute to your sister. This, in my personal opinion is not something to be reviewed, but to be held up as one of the finest things one person can do (write) for another. I hope you frame this and hang it in a prominent place in your home. And my personal thought is your family of six is still a family of seven because you will hold her memories dear within your family unit forever. This kind of love doesn't just fade away. Hugs to you and yours from a distance.
Wendy (a.k.a. A Willow Bends)
reply by the author on 07-Jul-2020
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This is such an incredibly touching and lovely tribute to your sister. This, in my personal opinion is not something to be reviewed, but to be held up as one of the finest things one person can do (write) for another. I hope you frame this and hang it in a prominent place in your home. And my personal thought is your family of six is still a family of seven because you will hold her memories dear within your family unit forever. This kind of love doesn't just fade away. Hugs to you and yours from a distance.
Wendy (a.k.a. A Willow Bends)
Comment Written 07-Jul-2020
reply by the author on 07-Jul-2020
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Thank you so much for such a beautiful response. Over the last few weeks, I have decided that of all the human emotions, grief is by far the worst. There is nothing you can do but feel it. That is why I wrote this poem, for my own heart. She was one year younger than I am, and when she was too ill and weak to talk, we were still texting. I have this strange sense inside of being fractured somehow. People keep saying time heals, but in my unfortunately vast experience, It may heal, but leaves huge scars. And you are right, in my heart we will always be a family of seven girls who are very attached to each other. Thank you for this. I needed it today.
Terry
Comment from Debbie Pope
Terry, I have been thinking about you. I wondered when you would have the strength to write again. Sometimes writing is cathartic. Sometimes it is just too hard.
I think that your sister would love your poem and being called a daisy. I love all flowers, but there is something so special about a daisy. They are delicate and perfect but hearty as well. Just looking a one makes me smile. They are the symbol of innocence and purity--such a nice representation of your sister's life.
I will continue to keep your family in my prayers. I know how much it hurts, Terry.
reply by the author on 07-Jul-2020
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Terry, I have been thinking about you. I wondered when you would have the strength to write again. Sometimes writing is cathartic. Sometimes it is just too hard.
I think that your sister would love your poem and being called a daisy. I love all flowers, but there is something so special about a daisy. They are delicate and perfect but hearty as well. Just looking a one makes me smile. They are the symbol of innocence and purity--such a nice representation of your sister's life.
I will continue to keep your family in my prayers. I know how much it hurts, Terry.
Comment Written 07-Jul-2020
reply by the author on 07-Jul-2020
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Thank you Debbie. The last few months of her life I could not write or review. I would read a poem three times and still not even know what I had read. I did put one poem on about asking God that she be comfortable since He felt He had to take her, because she suffered unbearably with this cancer. My sister critiqued all my poems, she was quite the writer herself. She was only one year younger than I am, so even when she was too ill and weak to talk, we were still texting. The day before she died, she texted me to please keep writing, that it was very important to her that I did. I guess I just did not know how unbearable this pain was going to be. Thank you so much Debbie. Terry
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Wow, I am so sorry for all of your suffering. I try not to think about death, but I guess that I thought that medicine had advanced enough to at least prevent suffering. When my mom was dying last fall, I was giving her morphine every two hours. At first it made her delirious. I didn't think that she could walk, but she managed to get out of bed and climb under the bed. I panicked and screamed for my husband when I couldn't find her. Only her feet were barely showing and that was on the far side of the bed. We searched the house over before we saw those feet. It was awful. The whole experience was horrible. Hospice said that she would die within 3 days. It was over 10. Still, I didn't think she was suffering with physical pain. I don't know what I thought. I've probably made you feel worse. I've never told my children what it was like. I'm still feeling the awfulness. Like I said, I will pray for your happiness and comfort. It's just tough.
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You have not made me worse. I do a much better job with other people?s pain than with my own. That must?ve been terrifying when your mom was dying and it was only last fall so I?m sure you are still grieving. I kept asking why Anne was having so much pain. They did not want to admit her to the hospital because the hospitals there are packed with Covid and have no available beds. She did not want to be in the hospital anyway but they still could?ve set up a morphine drip at home. Hospice came rarely and her husband took care of her full-time, he was unbelievable. I kept telling him she needed to be on a drip. She was on oxycodone pills, which she could no longer swallow, A fentanyl patch, and medicinal marijuana. These are all very strong and nothing did the
trick. Fortunately, she did die very peacefully in her husband?s arms. She lives in Arizona and I live upstate New York near Canada. Arizona was Enforcing the two week rule and Anne did not want any of us to see her the way she looked, She said she looked like an Auschwitz survivor. I Just keep trying to stay positive. I am so sorry about that story about your mom, but don?t worry you did not make me worse. I call my 95-year-old mother three times a day. She has all her faculties completely so this has been very very hard on her. Her day was made yesterday with the teacher that taught everyone of us seven girls chemistry in high school. He wanted her to know that he had never met a family of such polite, intelligent, interesting children as us. Those are the kind of things that make her better for a few hours.I worry about her a lot. Well, thank you so much for writing back and I?m sorry for your very painful story. I have learned that sharing some things can make you feel a little better. I have okay times during the day now, where I had none before because she was suffering so much. Now, it comes over me in waves and I don?t even know what the triggers are. I guess we just go on. Blessings to you Debbie.
Terry
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I'm spending two weeks alone cleaning and cooking for my grandchildren to come for a visit. Too much alone time for me, I think.
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I usually love alone time, but not right now. I don?t want to see a lot of people, but I like Tom here and I like my sons girlfriend here. She?s so sweet, always trying to do things for me. Sometimes she says you look like you
need a hug. Hopefully your grandchildren will cheer you up. How old are they?
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Good question. I have Eddy (6) and Charley (4). Since the Pandemic, I have added two more--Benjamin (2 months) and Joanna (2 weeks). Eddy, Charley, and Benjamin are coming for a visit. I'm dying to visit Joanna, but she lives in Stamford, Connecticut. Its been a busy spring. The Virus made my daughter's blood pressure rise, and the doctor induced her 3 weeks early. Both babies are fine though. Quite the blessing, but I certainly worried about them.
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I've been meaning to tell you. I am reading Beach Music and The Water is Wide. Like you said, they are great.
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I never read the water is wide but it?s supposed to be good. The one I told you about was the Weight of Water by Anita Shreve. Beach Music is a masterpiece.
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Your grandchildren are at an adorable age and you should have a lot of fun. But at the age they are at, I wouldn?t spend all these days cleaning my house before they got there! Thank God the babies came out fine. That was a scary time. Tom?s daughter is having twins. She is due August 2 but they are inducing her sometime in the next week.
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You are right about the cleaning. I'm mostly cooking and gathering food.
There will be no time for that once Eddy gets here. He's the six-year old. He's so excited, he's been calling me about 10 times a day.
Comment from Pam (respa)
-A lovely image and
beautiful tribute to
your sister, Terry.
-I appreciate your notes,
and am sorry for your loss,
and I know you have to feel
a sense of peace that she is
not suffering.
-You will always have her love
with you each day, and as you said,
"And now that daisy grows within my heart."
-Thoughts and prayers are with
your and your family.
reply by the author on 07-Jul-2020
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-A lovely image and
beautiful tribute to
your sister, Terry.
-I appreciate your notes,
and am sorry for your loss,
and I know you have to feel
a sense of peace that she is
not suffering.
-You will always have her love
with you each day, and as you said,
"And now that daisy grows within my heart."
-Thoughts and prayers are with
your and your family.
Comment Written 07-Jul-2020
reply by the author on 07-Jul-2020
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Thank you so much for your very heartfelt review. I do feel peace because she was suffering terribly, but losing her is unbelievably painful. I think grief is the worst of all human emotions. Again, thank you so much. Terry
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You are very welcome and deserving of the stars and review, Terry. Grief is a terrible thing, but it does get better with time.
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Thank you for your kind words.
Terry
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You are always welcome, Terry.
Comment from Boogienights
I'm so sorry to hear about your sister. This is a wonderful tribute to her, I'm so glad I found it on fanstory. I lost both my brother and sister within a year and a half of each other. It wounds you badly and it never heals. Thank you for sharing this.
reply by the author on 06-Jul-2020
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I'm so sorry to hear about your sister. This is a wonderful tribute to her, I'm so glad I found it on fanstory. I lost both my brother and sister within a year and a half of each other. It wounds you badly and it never heals. Thank you for sharing this.
Comment Written 06-Jul-2020
reply by the author on 06-Jul-2020
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People keep telling me time heals. In my unfortunately vast experience, time does heal but it leaves huge scars. I am very sorry for your losses also.
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People keep telling me time heals. In my unfortunately vast experience, time does heal but it leaves huge scars. I am very sorry for your losses also.
Comment from Raffaelina Lowcock
The poem is perfect. You couldn't have said it better. I am very sorry for your loss and resonate, as you know, having lost two sisters to cancer. You are blessed with five more sisters and the one you lost is now an angel. Rejoice!
Love
Ralf
reply by the author on 06-Jul-2020
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The poem is perfect. You couldn't have said it better. I am very sorry for your loss and resonate, as you know, having lost two sisters to cancer. You are blessed with five more sisters and the one you lost is now an angel. Rejoice!
Love
Ralf
Comment Written 06-Jul-2020
reply by the author on 06-Jul-2020
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Thank you for such a heartfelt review. I am sorry for your losses also. So painful...
Terry
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Thank you for such a heartfelt review. I am sorry for your losses also. So painful...
Terry
