Sleep

Days out to the seaside don't have the same connotations in my world as they do in yours. There are no brightly-painted huts or stripy balls, no pretty pink tufts of dyed sugar or cute donkeys in straw hats. A beach can be beautiful... but to visit one...

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Maybe All Confessional Essays Should Be Written In Blank Verse

Why, when i try, must i write mourning, loss, bereavement and the need for elegy? i write unto my husband, whom i love, and it becomes a prayer for his soul. i write unto my boyfriend. it becomes a bittersweet farewell on sunset seas.

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Penguins

The silently bereaved already sit graveside.

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The Harrowing Years

Die sighing after the days long since gone cursing every step on this ill-fated trail "in vain i try to forget - in vain i try to forgive black bird from evening sky - raven from heaths of night come and take my cares - carry away the grief bereave

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A Town Called Yesterday

For in the town of yesterday nobody is bereaved. tis there you're reunited with everyone you've grieved. i hear it's got another name, but i prefer to say that it's the town of yesterday. it's many a road that's changed me.

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Chapter One: There Ain't Nothing in the World

bereavement leave is five days and you said i had three days left. what happened?" her face instantly flicked into mischief mode again.

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Ander's Zombies Ch 4

Then there's bereaved breathing and marcie's mother comes on with a voice that makes delia choke. she wants to come over; she's heard some horrible news about marcie.

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[MLP: FiM] C & C chapter 9: Varying types of assistance

That gives you the right to bereave me of my sister?" fluttershy and rarity looked amazed at the question. luna, however, looked perfectly calm, and twilight looked only slightly dismayed. "why did you say 'bereave', princess?"

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Hemingway's War

Until one is the organiser of a funeral, a procession of bereavement, one does not know how truly exhausting and mentally draining it can be.

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Mistolin, Compassionate to the Bereaved, Hear Me

He came to me when sunset filled the room. He smelled of sweat and sweet grass, as he does. His face was like the dark side of the clouds. His fangs were blooded. Dirt clung on his claws. His bruises purpled underneath his mane. His eyes were sad,...

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In The Doghouse: Chapter Eighteen

Someone said, and reid looked up to see a doctor standing there, looking around at an audience of the sick, injured, bereaved, and worried. "reid travis?"

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The Homecoming of Daniel Usherswell

And tales he came to telling, of the pack he'd found to love him, of home they'd made eachother in the forest of the northlands, of pride and polyamory, of blue moon and bereavement, of how the wolf had to come to each, to turn and re-beget them.

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