“Don't let anyone bring you back to earth, keep shooting for the stars.”

“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any style of poetry.David J Delaney ©”

“The poppies might be wilted and trampled by the throng, but the memory of our fallen will live on and on and on.”

“Grief is like a long journeyYou wake each morning in a different place”

“Have faith in who you are. Believe that you will recover, and it will truly happen. And don't judge yourself too harshly. Some things are meant to be, and you had to fall so that later you may rise and become what you are truly meant to be.”

“We do well to remember dolphins. If a dolphin ails, then others come alongside and nudge him gently through the waters; because a dolphin must keep moving in order to keep breathing. We all have need of our dolphins alongside us from time to time.”

“I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren't. Do that and I'd never be able to let her go.”