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Category: Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry

• Audio My Mother Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry Poem Poetry Poetry: The Memoir of the Soul Writing

  

  Erosion

  This poem is included in an article I wrote for Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry (https://phoebemd.com/2020/03/16/alzheimers-grieving-the-loss-of-my-mother/). The article is based on my poetry podcast Grief: Fire and Ice (https://meelosmom.podbean.com/e/grief-fire-and-ice/). Erosion A garden once planted in spring, bearing life in shade and sun, is now tangled with weeds and blight. A…

  March 27, 2020
• Audio Healing My Mother Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry Podcasts Poem Poetry Poetry: The Memoir of the Soul

  

  Grace

  This poem is included in an article I wrote for Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry (https://phoebemd.com/2020/03/21/grief-healing-through-poetry/). The article is based on my poetry podcast Grief: Fire and Ice (https://meelosmom.podbean.com/e/grief-fire-and-ice/). Grace the leaves have fallen and stomped to dust I am laid bare, exposed to wind my limbs, brittle, still pleading…

  March 27, 2020
• Healing My Mother Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry Poetry Poetry: The Memoir of the Soul Prose Publication Writing

  Grief: Healing Through Poetry — Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry

  By Barbara Leonhard [This is the third segment of a 3-part series on Grief and Loss. To read the previous post, click here.] I processed grief over Mom’s struggle with Alzheimer’s through poetry writing. The fact that caregivers—such as myself and many other poets—can relieve grief through poetry supports my…

  March 21, 2020
• Audio Healing My Mother Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry Podcasts Poem Poetry Poetry: The Memoir of the Soul Prose Publication Writing

  

  Alzheimer’s: Grieving the Loss of My Mother

  Phoebemd.com has published the second part of my article on my mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s. You can access Part 1 via the link provided before the article starts. These installments are based on my poetry podcast on this topic. https://meelosmom.podbean.com/e/grief-fire-and-ice/ Please like, share, and follow. Others with loved ones who…

  March 16, 2020
• Healing Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry Podcasts Poetry: The Memoir of the Soul Prose Publication Writing

  

  Fire & Ice: The Faces of Grief

  My poetry podcast on Grief: Fire and Ice, which shares my journey with Mom through Alzheimer’s will be published in segments on phoebemd.com. Here is the first installment. Check out her site. It is a source of poetry and articles on healing. We all need to bolster our immune systems,…

  March 12, 2020
• Audio My Mother Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry Podcasts Poem Poetry Poetry: The Memoir of the Soul

  

  Picking Blueberries with Mom

  This poem is hyperlinked to an article I wrote for Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry (https://phoebemd.com/2020/03/21/grief-healing-through-poetry/). The article is based on my poetry podcast Grief: Fire and Ice (https://meelosmom.podbean.com/e/grief-fire-and-ice/). Picking Blueberries with Mom On hot summer Michigan days, Mom loved picking wild blueberries. We would be on that promised trip…

  July 3, 2019
• Audio Healing My Mother Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry Podcasts Poem Poetry

  

  Grace

  This poem is included in an article I wrote for Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry (https://phoebemd.com/2020/03/21/grief-healing-through-poetry/). The article is based on my poetry podcast Grief: Fire and Ice (https://meelosmom.podbean.com/e/grief-fire-and-ice/). Grace the leaves have fallen and stomped to dust I am laid bare, exposed to wind my limbs, brittle, still pleading…

  January 12, 2019
• Audio Ekphrastic Poetry Phoebe, MD: Medicine + Poetry Poem Poetry Poetry: The Memoir of the Soul

  

  Weeping Willow

  Trees, our guardians.

  October 6, 2017