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    Uncharted Sorrows: The Incandescence of Loss
    Uncharted Sorrows: The Incandescence of Loss
    Uncharted Sorrows: The Incandescence of Loss
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    Uncharted Sorrows: The Incandescence of Loss

    By Robyn Nygumburo Bridges

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    Uncharted Sorrows: The Incandescence of Loss, offers poems traversing both personal and collective heartache and loss. When we grieve, the territory is full of angst. Thwarted desire is a cruel taskmaster; limitation, loss, and death ultimately have their way. Though we rail at the injustice of dashed dreams, we heal by allowing ourselves to surrender to the alchemical mercy of a process beyond our grasp. As we do so, we become kinder and more compassionate toward ourselves and others. We grow more spiritually astute, understanding, and wise.

    These poems seek to accompany you through your own dark times. Though your sorrows are yours alone, others share the broader field of grieving with you. May you find comfort in this, while discovering a kind of holiness in the unexpected incandescence of your own grief.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateJun 21, 2017
    ISBN9781504379335
    Uncharted Sorrows: The Incandescence of Loss
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    Robyn Nygumburo Bridges

    Robyn Nygumburo Bridges, M Ed, has authored several books encouraging human interface with the natural world. The Good Earth: Canyons of Gratitude is her second of five books of poetry. After 25 years of private practice as a Body-Mind-Spirit Counselor, she now continues to write, speaks at inspirational conferences, and travels in order to research and appreciate new landscapes. Robyn is the author of three “Medicine” books: Moose Medicine: Healing Wisdom from the Natural World, Two-Legged Medicine: How to be Your Own Brilliant Therapist, and Turtle Medicine: The Art of Swimming Sideways. Now, her second book of poetry, The Good Earth: Canyons of Gratitude, follows her first, This Way to the Kiva: Poems for the Journey Home. Explore link or link and order through your local bookstore, Balboa Press, or link

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      Uncharted Sorrows - Robyn Nygumburo Bridges

      UNCHARTED

      SORROWS

      The Incandescence of Loss

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      Copyright © 2017 Robyn Nygumburo Bridges.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

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      ISBN: 978-1-5043-7932-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5043-7933-5 (e)

      Balboa Press rev. date: 06/20/2017

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      PART I: INNOCENT NO MORE

      From Which We Don’t Escape

      So Young for Ashes

      Her Hands

      Because She Said So

      Communion

      PART II: IN THE GUISE OF A YOUNG ADULT

      White Horses

      Dreaming Lucifer

      Your Anger

      You Thought We Wouldn’t Notice?

      Parting

      Mother Dream

      Who I Am

      Recall

      Gothic Bozeman

      PART III: TRYING SO HARD

      Forest Vestiges

      And If

      When Words Fall

      Leaving You

      Just One More Time

      To Be Here

      Nothing to Hurt You

      Trotting to First Place

      It’s Just How We Live

      PART IV: INCONSOLABLE

      Because

      Off Some Grecian Island

      Christmas, Again

      Be Careful

      Requiem

      Anticipation

      PART V: THE PATH LESS TAKEN

      Bound

      In Praise of Mystery

      Water Relatives

      Stepping In

      Faces, Pageant Hopefuls

      Sea Turtles

      Unacknowledged

      Awakening Dreams*

      Brilliant Anger

      Demands

      In the Shadow of the Crazies

      An Uncertain Juncture

      PART VI: SORROW BEYOND WORDS

      No Words

      The Wheel Turns

      On the Nature of Mechanics

      How Shall I Live?

      America,

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