Finding the Words for Our Loved Ones

SOUTHBURY, CONNECTICUT, USA – The poets from around the world who contributed their work to Lost Love reflect on what it means to love, to remember, to say good-bye, and to long for one more word or moment with a loved one.

The collection was edited by Orenaug Mountain Publishing managing partner Sandy Lee Carlson, who says the collection was inspired by the story “of a friend who lost a son without having the opportunity to say good-bye. I began to think of all those last encounters with others that didn’t seem final until they were—and then they became momentous, living in the heart as abiding love that wanders alone.”

Martin Giroux, a contributor from Bethlehem, Connecticut, says he welcomed the opportunity to contribute a poem about his son: “This collection of poetry is a powerful and lovely testimony to the most universal of human journeys, that of loss. I feel privileged to be considered among such talent.”

Viola Jaynes of Austin, Texas, who also wrote a poem about her son and painted the cover art, says, “Creating a poem or a painting, or anything creative is yet another layer of love’s language that simply never can be expressed in its fullest while here on earth. But we can try.”

Lost Love is available through the OMP website.