My Saddest Day
April 21, 2009 · Filed Under Death Poems, Funeral Poems, In Loving Memory Poems, Memory Poems, Poems of Bereavement · Comment
It all started when in at five past midnight
Now I am lying stiff and cold
Deep in troubled dreamless sleep.
Cotton wool stuffed in my nostrils,
I cannot breathe.
A rag tightening my jaws together,
I cannot protest.
My feet bound together,
Surely there is no escape this time round.
Granny chose they dress me up in my favourite suit,
But this time there [...]
In Loving Memory – Poem by Els van den Eynde
November 18, 2008 · Filed Under Funeral Poems, In Loving Memory Poems, Poems of Bereavement · Comment
A poem for a loved one passed away…
Memory
Memory is a melody
Replicated in semitone
A da capo performed in diminuendo
the last dying note vanishing, unnoticed
And we wish
for the melody
not to pass out of existence
but to transfer to another space
where it obtains
forever
Written by Els van den Eynde
Originally published on Free Poems.
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