The funeral, then is a way for the mind to conceptualize the death of a loved one. The funeral is also an opportunity to reflect upon the vacuum that the loss of one human being can leave in the world. It is a chance to remember how a spark of divine energy made the world a ...
Poetry Help: Need a bit of verse for a funeraland Poetry
That ought to be one's own funeral.It is a hard, hard life as they say.Fortunately, there is another way to come close to poetry, and that is in the reading of it, not as linguistics (语言学), not as history, not as anything but poetry. One of the hard things for a teacher...
, made a move for a job (at least I am lucky to get a job), and now I can’t help but think of how a lot of poets live out of a suitcase. And, it’s a little scary. As I was in the last stretch before my move—I had till Monday, July 14th to finish packing—the sea...
Poems reliably show upfor graduations, weddings, and retirements, brimming with tearful homilies. And they never miss afuneral. Poems also help us through the prosaic days. I heard a couple having a not-heart-to-heartexchange, and thought of the two-liner from my teacher the poet Thom ...
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or onValentine's Day. In speeches, for example at agraduationceremony, where the speaker hopes to inspire and motivate new grads to go out into the world and be the best they can be, or at afuneralormemorialservice when poems can express the pain we feel at times of sadness when the ...
A death, a flower, a funeral: A flower the widow turned away, An orchid, left to me, Child, and killer of orchids. The months passed, and passed, Yet, its stubborn blossoms remained. Yesterday, the last bloom Spent itself, I could tell It wanted to be clipped. It was dull, a bit...
‘I took a day to search for God …’ ~ at her funeral, knowing she still ‘dwelt within my heart’ I read ‘Vestigia,’ by Carman my poet of choice ~ I hear his voice when purple lilacs ‘stir’ when I hear the wind ‘conversing with the leaves’ ...
Always be a poet, even in prose. ~Charles Baudelaire ...poetry often brings consolation to the heart which prose has failed to touch... ~Luigi, Sweet Songs for Mourning Mothers, 1884 [Luigi is pseudonym for a still-unknown female compiler. –tg] But if, as I hope, the reader has no...