Why don't you stop and find out, 'Who am I? ' Then, there will be no need to cry ... Read Poem EpitaphsMichael Burch Epitaph for a Palestinian Child by Michael R. Burch I lived as best I could, and then I died. ...
Many of the ‘Naming of Names’ poems (there are eleven) are simple alphabetised lists of some of those who died in the twenty-six-year Sri Lankan Civil War – taken from lists in reports by the Sri Lankan North East Secretariat on Human Rights (NESHR), themselves, as Trevett points ...
An elegy is typically a mournful or reflective poem composed as a lament for someone who has died, yet it is the intent of this collection to show that each person exists from moment to moment, and that, in effect, it is these moments which should be elegized for without them the ...
Amemorialis an object which serves as a focus for memory of something, usually a person (who has died) or an event. Popular forms ofmemorialsinclude landmark objects orart objectssuch assculptures,statuesorfountains, and even entireparks The most common type of memorial is thegravestoneor them...
Death of a loved one is always a cause for mourning. However, when a baby dies, there is a sadness that goes beyond normal grief. We are programmed to expect that the old outlive the young. When a person who has lived a full life passes away, there is a sense that everything is ...
Missing Someone Who Died: Sayings on Missing and Memory If you’ve lost a loved one, the pain will certainly be deep. Even if comforting words don’t bring back your loved one, they can give you hope during difficult times. They will also comfort those around you, especially if you pres...
For with my death the whole truth shall be seen. Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly; Their beauty shakes me who was once serene; Straight through my heart the wound is quick and keen. Widely regarded as the ‘Father of English poetry’, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote some of the most re...
those who have died or thickened to full growth and gone away. The dolls are their souls or cast skins, which line the shelves of our bedrooms and museums, disguised as outmoded toys, images of our sorrow, shedding around themselves
The death of someone close to us leave us shocked with grief. We cannot understand how one minute this person was here and the next they are gone. The truth is that those we love are never truly gone. The body may have run its course, but the soul lives forever. Human beings have ...
With that, she kissed me, but and I should have died, I could not speak, my sprites were so far gone. For very shame my face away I wried, But when I awoke, there was but I alone.Then spake I, and goodly words to her said. ...