Re: OT: Suggestions for a funeral poem?

In article <yujQl.22579$as4.14245@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Mark Alan Miller" <mamiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"erilar" <drache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:drache-495A51.20512516052009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Well, there's this one:

Dirge Without Music

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard
ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the loved. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,--but the best is lost.

The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,--
They are gone. They have gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve.
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

Wow, that's a powerful poem, but I'm not sure how I'd feel about hearing it
at a funeral. It's a bit unsettling.

Mark Alan Miller

Mom didn't want a funeral, but this poem best expressed how I felt at
the time.

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov

Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo ;


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