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    Summer Rays: Solace for Bereaved Parents
    Summer Rays: Solace for Bereaved Parents
    Summer Rays: Solace for Bereaved Parents
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    Summer Rays: Solace for Bereaved Parents

    By Randah Ribhi Hamadeh

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    The loss of a child is every parents worst nightmare. For Randah Ribhi Hamadeh this nightmare became a reality. The poems in Summer Rays offer consolation to any parent on a grief journey. It is a poetic diary of loss and communication with the eternal soul. Through her poems, all bereaved parents will identify with the heartfelt pleadings of a grieving parent and the connection with her lost child.
    Readers will find her poetry profound as she describes the familiar, excruciating pain of a grieving parent, in particular on the special occasions where the lost child is missed; birthdays, anniversaries, Mothers Day and New Years Day. They will also relate to her feelings of gratitude towards those who were supportive and frustration with those less understanding.
    Writings from the soul are cathartic not only for the authors but for all who share their unthinkable sorrow. As with any writing, when the writer takes up the pen, the muse will appear. In this case, the muse is Samar Ahmed Al Ansari, the authors deceased daughter.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJul 3, 2009
    ISBN9781440151613
    Summer Rays: Solace for Bereaved Parents
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    Randah Ribhi Hamadeh

    Randah Ribhi Hamadeh is an epidemiologist and bereaved mother who started writing poetry after the loss of her daughter in 2006. She is the author of four poetry books: one in English, Summer Rays: Solace for Bereaved Parents, and three in Arabic, Samar: Sunset and Sunrise, Samar: The Sun That Does Not Set, and Samar Is with Us. She is also a blogger and a contributing author in the Open to Hope Community website.

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      Summer Rays - Randah Ribhi Hamadeh

      Copyright © 2009 by Randah Ribhi Hamadeh.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4401-5160-6 (sc)

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      ISBN: 978-1-4401-5161-3 (ebk)

      Printed in the United States of America

      iUniverse rev. date: 6/30/2009

      Contents

      Foreword

      by Gloria Horsley

      Preface

      Acknowledgments

      SAMAR

      Twenty -One

      A Year Has Passed

      Why Did You Come, 2008?

      Eighteen Months

      Mother’s Day

      It’s So Unfair

      Oh, September, You Came Back Again

      Season’s Greetings

      2009

      Eighteen Years

      Oh, Days!

      I’m So Sorry

      I Wish

      I Miss You

      Why Did I Die?

      You Are a Star

      You Tumbled Short of Your Dreams

      I Carry Her in My Heart

      My Heart Is Broken

      Days Are Not the Same

      The Incomplete

      Going to Places

      Little Bo Peep

      If You Had One More Day

      Can You Take Away My Endless Pain?

      Why Are You Not Moving On?

      Don’t Ask Me

      How Many Children?

      Men Can Cry

      A Mother’s Grief

      You Will Heal

      For Those I Left Behind

      I Am Not Walking Alone

      You and I

      Dear Nieces

      Thank You, Friend

      Could That Have Been You?

      I Look for You

      Never Died

      Hello from Heaven

      Please, Mother, Don’t Cry

      My Most Dear

      You’ll Find Me

      About the Author

      To my precious daughter,

      Samar Ahmed Al Ansari

      (4/4/1988–4/9/2006)

      with all my love

      Interior_SAMAR_20090311053421.JPG

      Samar

      Foreword

      by Gloria Horsley

      Randah Ribhi Hamadeh’s Summer Rays: Solace for Bereaved Parents is a poetic diary of loss, and communication with the eternal soul. Through her poems, all bereaved parents, including me, will identify with the heartfelt pleadings of a grieving parent and the connection with her lost child. They will find her poetry profound

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