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Gone Missing: Someday We'll Meet Again
Good or bad, we seldom forget our loved ones after they are gone. Poetry helps.
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Published January 14, 2021
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February 9, 2025
Gone Missing offers profound comfort for all of us grieving, addressing the complexity of not knowing what to do with heart wrenching-memories, how to hold them as we continue forward in our lives. “…I’ve visited/ that place/ countless times/ in my mind,/ my footsteps smooth/ shifting sands,/ make peace/ with vacillation,” Hatton writes. Her evocative juxtaposition breaks open the human condition of frailty and strength in the inescapable reality of loss. Gone Missing reminds us that we’re not alone in navigating loss, change and heartache for what never returns. Hatton speaks to the energy of memory that resides within, as alive as ever, while bodies of loved ones let go, disintegrate, forever moving on. The resounding vibration of lost forevers in opening poems such as "You Couldn't Help It" is contrasted with the profoundness of ageless spirit in others like “Snow Angels.” Blending sorrow into mysticism, she leaves us with the distillation that “The moon has left me/ starved/ for you,” for relatives we carry achingly, never ready for their absence or how to embody the strangeness of it, the illusion of the half moon a meaningful metaphor for a why and how for which there is no answer.
April 24, 2025
This was written by Mel about my book:
"Good or bad, we seldom forget our loved ones after they are gone. Poetry helps."
That sentence rests centered at the top, back cover of Linda Hatton's new
book of poetry, Gone Missing.
Gone Missing is a collection of poems addressing grief. Linda's poems are fresh and original, written in a style that draws the reader in. The book could be read quickly, given there are only twenty short poems between its covers. Though it's not a quick read. The words invite the reader to linger, to dwell in their own memories and indulge their own emotions.
Gone Missing is divided into two sections, “What was”, and “What is”. The titles of the poems are as important as the verses; they perfectly summarize the poems, while persuading the reader to continue.
Linda's book is unforgettable.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...
"Good or bad, we seldom forget our loved ones after they are gone. Poetry helps."
That sentence rests centered at the top, back cover of Linda Hatton's new
book of poetry, Gone Missing.
Gone Missing is a collection of poems addressing grief. Linda's poems are fresh and original, written in a style that draws the reader in. The book could be read quickly, given there are only twenty short poems between its covers. Though it's not a quick read. The words invite the reader to linger, to dwell in their own memories and indulge their own emotions.
Gone Missing is divided into two sections, “What was”, and “What is”. The titles of the poems are as important as the verses; they perfectly summarize the poems, while persuading the reader to continue.
Linda's book is unforgettable.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...
December 6, 2025
A short collection of poetry focuses on detailing the thoughts and feelings as people and pets pass, reflecting on your own idea of death and wishes for after the event thinking ahead for how you desire your loved ones to react and feel even though you can't change it.
A short collection but with depth of thoughts bravely faced and made into concise poems that hit you deep.
A short collection but with depth of thoughts bravely faced and made into concise poems that hit you deep.
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