Grief

In C. K. Williams’ “Grief,” the speaker explores the all too commonexperience of losing a loved one. The speaker describes the pain involved insitting helplessly by, only able to watch, while another human being slowlywithdraws into death. The poem “Grief,” like many of C. K. Williams’poems, is a maelstrom of memories, thoughts, emotions, and other…

Grief is an emotion that unfortunately, we all come to experience some time or another. However, that terrible feeling can open the door to acceptance and appreciation. Mourning and reflecting upon a tragic event can cause one to look at an issue through a different perspective, and maybe even help them accept it. On the…

Into the blazing stillness of grief, the mourning angst echoes like an unruffled midnight roar that brings forth the dread in every living creature in that once quiet lay in Lebanon. The affected are perplexed with helplessness, hunger, disease, isolation and foreboding, you will hear a piercing ill-omened outcry – a heartbreaking veil of a…