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LN posted a condolence
Thursday, July 13, 2017
I remember seeing you at the Tannery. Pete showed me that place and he had shared with me that you two we're friends. Your poem really captures Pete in the way that I understood him too. I miss him coming into Shopper's Corner in the mornings to buy his carton of eggs. He's the reason I know about poetry and write myself now. I will forever miss him. Keep writing Honeysun. Let's always shine bright the way he would have wanted us too.
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Honeysun posted a condolence
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
PETER
Your shoulder by mine
Skip, standing on the other sidel
Your poem in my hand.
You, nervously looking around
The coffee machine in the background
Hissing at everything.
I read through the brilliance of your words
You,hesitating, looking back at me every once
In a while hoping that I would say, "yes",
And at the same time afraid I would say "yes
Yes, you can read this "and then you would have to read it.
Your humour matching my British sarcasm
Teasing you seemed like a natural
thing to do, bringing you up to a surface
you struggled to reach.
I called you at home, just to listen to the phone
Ring, and ring. Imagening you behind the sofa.
Yet you appeared at times like a cork out of a bottle,
bobbing on a surface that was hard to keep your
head above, then you would be gone.
The poem I was reading finished,
The space where you just stood listening,
Empty.
You kept disappearing like this, and I didn't cling,
but sometimes it was hard watching you go,
And now you are really gone, and my heart
Is bouncing all over this room.
God, breathing down my knock,
Wanting us all home.
Knowing you are there already makes it
Easier to think about
But I am not joining you until
I have done all I am meant to do
And then we will watch all the colours
My friend Richard showed me
When he jumped on front of a train
-- weeping willows by the river,
Everything glowing,
His skin vibrant
He patted the grass at the side of me,
Told me to sit beside him
My back to the tree,
Looking at the river, the tree, everything
Luminous, his smile, his skin,
And he put his arms out at what was before him
And said " look, look where I am ! Why are you
So worried about me?"
I hope you have found Richard, or Richard has
Found you and you are both beside that tree,
And I step into that dream to be with my friends
Again.
I never knew you couldn't keep those colours
Going.
I knew you struggled at times but never knew
You were suicidal.
And now your gone
And they thought I was going four months ago
Your face appearing at my hospital bed
Your arms out to catch some of the love
I had saved for you.
I wanted to share some of the other sides of you
The untold story, the things that weren't in your writing
Something that wasn't funny
Something that spoke of the other you
The one who hid in his apartment
With his twenty year old cat.-
I wanted to know you.
I wanted you as my best friend.
R.I.P. Peter Pell McLaughlin
Honeysun....Tannery Poet
Friend
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Tracy Ferdinand (Honeysun) posted a condolence
Saturday, May 20, 2017
My heart goes out to Peters family. I gather his mother wrote something not so long ago...he was just so private.
I went to the poetry night at the Tannery for a short while before Peter started coming and I read all the hard to listen to poems, and he read all the very funny poems. He told me after a while that he purposely put his name down after mine to cheer everyone back up....I spent about every Monday for that Ist year standing next to Peter listening to poetry. His poems were very funny but Peter was always worried about offending someone with them, so he use to ask me to read them before he put his name down to read. Sometimes he changed his mind and left.
When I had my second and third operation for cancer he came to my house and helped my daughter with my wheelchair into his car and took me to poetry every Monday where I read from my chair. We were/are one big family at poetry and Peter was a big part of that family, and still is even though he is not there anymore and neither am I.
When my cancer came back I needed to talk to someone and Peter spent time with me at a cafe talking to me till I felt I could cope....he showed up at my hospital bed just after Christmas before I left for England, unfortunately there were other people there and we didn't get to have a one on one conversation. I am so glad I got a hug from him before I left though. In another life we will both be well, and he will be one of my best friends.....though he was one of my friends, it was just hard to stay in touch with him..... Peter, I love :heart: you...shine on in the bright realm you find yourself..I hope in there you find the peace you wanted.
Honeysun
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Margaret Farmer Pringle posted a condolence
Monday, May 15, 2017
I am so saddened to hear about Pete. He was my teacher, my basketball coach, my confidant and my friend when I was 15. He was a very special person to me. So shy, smart and unassuming. He even babysat once or twice for my siblings and me when my parents went out of town. After my freshman year in HS, my family moved away and we wrote letters during my first year away--I still have them. How kind he was to find the time and energy to do that. Then he moved on to other things... and I looked him up every few years, when I was back in the Bay Area, but never managed to locate him. He seemed just to sort of slip away, despite the number of people who would have liked to be in contact with him. That may have been part of it--just all too much.
I had no idea about these other talents of his—poetry and music—and I'm so amazed to hear, and read, about this other Pete. He'll always be 28 to me, patient, understanding, a bit dark, so handsome and so kind. I am glad to have finally found him now and wish I'd had the opportunity to be friends as adults and enjoy these other talents of his. I miss him and would give anything to read more poetry of his. Thanks for sharing these lines, Steve Kettman.
Margaret Farmer Pringle
London, England
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Samantha Cranko posted a condolence
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Pete was my cross-country coach at Branson in the 80's and I'm so sad to hear of his passing. I will never forget his excitement when I decided to go to Wesleyan - he followed me around campus singing the Wes fight song. Pete made us all feel special.
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Marilyn Kiernan posted a condolence
Sunday, April 30, 2017
The few times I saw Peter at his mom's I so enjoyed his humor and wished he
lived closer so we could all see him more often. Our family sheds tears for
all those he left behind.
Marilyn and Russ Kiernan
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Randall Reetz posted a condolence
Friday, April 28, 2017
Best poet I ever read. Best guy I ever knew. I am ashamed that I didn't work harder to be there for him. A failing I can only chalk up to envy. Why help someone that you imagine has so much to live for? I want to help get Pete's poetry, essays, and other writing properly published and distributed.
Randall Lee Reetz
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Megan Mackenzie lit a candle
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
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