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Inside Sorrow
Clear-eyed and uncompromising, you will identify with the short poems of Inside Sorrow that capture the experience of feeling so down we can't see up. Written to help people who have experienced loss, Inside Sorrow will take you through a journey and show that despite feelings of loss, grief, or depression, we can come out stronger on the other side. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
46 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2013
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About the author
K.D. Rose
19 books150 followersK. D. Rose is an eclectic poet, author, analyst, thinker. K. D.’s book, Inside Sorrow, won Readers Favorite Silver Medal for Poetry. In 2017 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry, essays, and short stories have been published in Word Riot, Chicago Literati, Poetry Breakfast, BlazeVOX Journal, Ink in Thirds, Northern Virginia Review, The Nuclear Impact Anthology, Stray Branch Magazine, Literary Orphans, Maintenant Contemporary Dada Magazine, The 2016 Paragram Press Anthology, The Eastern Iowa Review, Lunch Ticket Arts and Literary Magazine, Bop Dead City, Santa Fe Literary Magazine, Hermes Poetry Magazine, Slipstream, Wild Women's Medicine Circle Journal and The Offbeat. She also won an Honorable Mention in the 2016 New Millennium Writings Poetry Contest. Her last release was DreamPoem. She has a B.S. in Psychology, a Master's Degree in Social Work and worked as an analyst for Dept. of State and Homeland Security.
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April 2, 2013
KD Rose returns to basics with Inside Sorrow. Clear-eyed and uncompromising, Inside Sorrow addresses the sensitive subjects of death and mourning.
You will identify with the short prose of Inside Sorrow that captures the experience of feeling so down we can't see up. Written to help people who have experienced loss, Inside Sorrow takes readers through a journey of reconciliation within and shows that despite feelings of loss, grief, or depression, we can come out stronger on the other side.
You will identify with the short prose of Inside Sorrow that captures the experience of feeling so down we can't see up. Written to help people who have experienced loss, Inside Sorrow takes readers through a journey of reconciliation within and shows that despite feelings of loss, grief, or depression, we can come out stronger on the other side.
March 27, 2013
K.D. Rose’s Inside Sorrow: Poems of Mourning and Grief is a beautiful and poignant collection of poems that covers three years of grieving, beginning with the death of a loved one. The journey of grief begins on “That Day” (I am a wall./I circle in/tight corners, level and square/I have no door.) and moves quite eloquently through the many levels of grief.
The poems, themselves, speak of the sense of numbness and anguish, well-meaning relatives who circle and descend, how the writer strives to retain the memories that have begun to fade, the beauty of the world that once again begins to creep in, and the first steps of moving on.
It is never explicitly stated, but it’s easy to surmise from a number of the poems that the loved one was a lover or a significant other, one part of the whole whose death has fractured and broken the entity that was. – I found this to be the most poignant of all (Sometimes I grieve for the me that was./The one that will never be again./I realize there was no me there./It was us—/us that died./Not me./Not you./Us.)
K.D. Rose has captured the internal world of grief in a way that very few people share – the parts that western civilization tells us to suck up and move on, as if the death of a loved one has no bearing on who we are, that grief doesn’t change us, that life must go on at breakneck speed. It’s the internal struggle of wading through what the world tells us we must deny that matters, not the masked face that we present to those around us.
K.D. Rose has removed that mask. May we all follow her example.
The poems, themselves, speak of the sense of numbness and anguish, well-meaning relatives who circle and descend, how the writer strives to retain the memories that have begun to fade, the beauty of the world that once again begins to creep in, and the first steps of moving on.
It is never explicitly stated, but it’s easy to surmise from a number of the poems that the loved one was a lover or a significant other, one part of the whole whose death has fractured and broken the entity that was. – I found this to be the most poignant of all (Sometimes I grieve for the me that was./The one that will never be again./I realize there was no me there./It was us—/us that died./Not me./Not you./Us.)
K.D. Rose has captured the internal world of grief in a way that very few people share – the parts that western civilization tells us to suck up and move on, as if the death of a loved one has no bearing on who we are, that grief doesn’t change us, that life must go on at breakneck speed. It’s the internal struggle of wading through what the world tells us we must deny that matters, not the masked face that we present to those around us.
K.D. Rose has removed that mask. May we all follow her example.
March 19, 2013
Wow! It's a good collection of poems that clearly shows that the poet has got talent. The line that In liked best about this book was "Sometimes I grieve for the me that was.
The one that will never be again." Sometimes we too grieve in our lives for the "we" that we were. It depicts sorrow, loss, pain and a lot of un said emotions get life again, since they lived in us at some point. It's definitely worth a read.
The one that will never be again." Sometimes we too grieve in our lives for the "we" that we were. It depicts sorrow, loss, pain and a lot of un said emotions get life again, since they lived in us at some point. It's definitely worth a read.
March 29, 2013
We have all lost someone and that loss always impacts our lives. I have. Obviously so has K.D. Rose and it's painful openness is touching and yes, cathartic. Each person's experience with losing a loved one is a personal and deeply life changing process. K.D. Rose shares her pain and healing with her readers and I for one am grateful to her for it.
August 10, 2014
This book is a great read!
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