Day 9 - Loss by enfleshed https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09 enfleshed - poetry through lent en-us 2021-02-18 21:41:54 UTC 2026-03-20 20:01:41 UTC hello@padlet.com loss https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1244893738 you feel it in the pit of your stomach
knowing...waiting...emptiness...lament
can the brokeness be restored? ]]> 2021-02-26 12:20:06 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1244893738 liberating loss https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1244975433 In one ecosystem, her losses were trauma - overwhelming her ability to cope, rewiring her brain.
In another ecosystem, her losses birthed connection - they were chosen and her neurobiology was healed.
She could dance in the spacious place of courage, liberating loss from white supremacy and misogyny.
]]> 2021-02-26 12:54:36 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1244975433 Loss https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1245116958 We have all lost far
too much, so much that we can't
measure all the tears.]]> 2021-02-26 13:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1245116958 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1245174504 When someone cries in our presence, it produces neurochemical bonding. We cannot avoid their humanity - or our own.

What collective practices of lament might bridge the distances between walled-off hearts?]]> 2021-02-26 13:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1245174504 Loss https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1245244267 I am at a loss to explain
How losing my singing voice could bring gain,
But God's love shines through the pain.
GM]]> 2021-02-26 14:09:01 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1245244267 Sand https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1245458515 The grains tumble, slowly at first 
In those moments when I hold them, open
Open to the possibility that loss isn’t what I think it is]]> 2021-02-26 14:53:22 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1245458515 Loss? https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1245678304 Why do many of us equate the fight for justice as loss? 
God equates justice with lovingkindness. 
Justice for all means that lovingkindness is practiced globally, societally, and personally. 
Always. ]]> 2021-02-26 15:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1245678304 Loss https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1245792779
"Sorry for your loss."
Too glib and inadequate
For bleak emptiness

WDRplus]]> 2021-02-26 16:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1245792779 Haiku https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1246060032 Empty and too full
Loss and grief accumulate
Yet the sun rises]]> 2021-02-26 16:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1246060032 Loss https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1246506724 Injustice also means
That grief
Is not distributed evenly ]]> 2021-02-26 18:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1246506724 November https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1246631365 far off lonely tree
where desiccated daydreams
slowly flutter down ]]> 2021-02-26 18:57:23 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1246631365 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1246695639 2021-02-26 19:11:54 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1246695639 Why Not When ... https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1246820848 Privilege bubble popped
- - -
when Ahmaud, Brionna, George and Rayshard. 
- - -
But why not when Trayvon, Michael, Tamir, Philando, Stephon, Eric, Freddie, Alton ... ????
-  -  -
Soul reckoning.]]> 2021-02-26 19:41:39 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1246820848 The Phoenix https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1246904029 The Phoenix rises above the ashes
Not to rise us above,away and beyond our losses 
But to carry them fully to the place of hope]]> 2021-02-26 20:04:22 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1246904029 enflesehd https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247008001 Because some fear loss,
others experience it.
Over and over and over.]]> 2021-02-26 20:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247008001 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247206831 I have lost and found faith
a thousand times now
I have lost and found hope
a thousand times
I am learning to trust this cycle
Of losing and finding again]]> 2021-02-26 21:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247206831 Be There https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247476032 Sitting with loss, I create ritual – water, earth, fire, air
 
Breathing in and through the emptiness
 
Showing up, stripped to the essentials…breath and love
]]> 2021-02-27 01:00:57 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247476032 With thanks to Leonard Cohen https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247520019
Every loss a crack. 
A break in the vessel of us,
Letting the light in. ]]> 2021-02-27 01:45:41 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247520019 Loss https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247604604 When you were taken away from us it was like a candle going out

The pain and injustice split me in two

It shaped so many things but I will never forget that you were sacrificed to a failing system]]> 2021-02-27 03:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247604604 Loss https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247644982 The coock crowed.
Imagine Peter's loss; his anguish.
 I ponder my loss when I miss a chance to say "Yes. I know Him".
I humbly accept the generous invitatio, the offer of compensation, to tend your lambs, gracious Lord.]]> 2021-02-27 04:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247644982 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247665783 Three futures I have lost
I avoid truly mourning them
For risk of losing a fourth
]]> 2021-02-27 04:28:54 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247665783 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247733831 Every loss experienced

As if I still have so little.


But look: it’s not true!
]]> 2021-02-27 06:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247733831 Loss. I feel life slip through my fingers. So much I wish I’d said, and done. That which I failed to do for one, I do now for others. https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247812726

dm]]> 2021-02-27 08:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247812726 loss https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247917520 Under the weight of loss;
I bow my head;
and begin to notice small beauties.
HilaryC]]> 2021-02-27 10:20:59 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247917520 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247991820 Here is nothing where once was something:
a gap on the bookshelf, at the table,
in the heart, gaping and raw.]]> 2021-02-27 11:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1247991820 Loss https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1248411683 After every loss (sometimes long after)

I become resilient again, and realize 

that Love/God was there through it all.

CM


]]> 2021-02-27 17:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1248411683 Loss https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1248594918 Loss and longing are dancing again, clinging limbs entwined in a rumba of attachment. 
Let go, whispers loss, and longing sighs
Into the gaping air, where a tender grace awaits her cue.
]]> 2021-02-27 19:17:31 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1248594918 https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1248821479 Illness fear fumbling
Support anger
fumbling
so much loss]]> 2021-02-27 22:28:36 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1248821479 Deep breaths Memory Heart-full https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1250036876 2021-02-28 13:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1250036876 Loss https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1250116108 The magnitude of loss is so great
It permeates the whole society
Leaving us numb
We need each other more than ever]]> 2021-02-28 14:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1250116108 Lost Paradise https://padlet.com/enflesehd/791m4hw5tiaiel09/wish/1254902046 Lost a job last month, kicked out of paradise/ losing money, not my mind, ain't gonna think twice / nobody ever made millions being nice.

-Mark Nielsen

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