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[thread] Do not stand at my grave and weep (mander.xyz)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I love the indentations and line breaks of the original when first published:

     Do not stand
          By my grave, and weep.
     I am not there,
          I do not sleep—
I am the thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glints in snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle, autumn rain.
As you awake with morning’s hush,
I am the swift, up-flinging rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight,
I am the day transcending night.
     Do not stand
          By my grave, and cry—
     I am not there,
          I did not die.

— Clare Harner, The Gypsy, December 1934

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Beautiful ~~prose~~ poetry, thanks for sharing [email protected]

[–] Kellenved 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is poetry not prose

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Ty, edited!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is what my mother wants me to remember her by when she goes.

It hurts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I’m so so so sorry to hear that.

I hope you can find some warmth in knowing, ahead of time, a poem that means a lot to her and that you can hold on to and always remember her by.

My heart goes out to you.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Beautiful.

Identity is just something our brains invent to better make sense of the world. It doesn't exist as anything other than a thought. You are the universe and the universe is me. The only thing that goes away when anything "dies", is the illusory and self-imposed border between the "individual" and the rest of it all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Yeah we're like waves in an ocean that break, recede, and are re-formed. I do kinda miss my dead family members tho.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Goddamn onion ninjas...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

My sister read this at my nan's funeral. To help her not cry I practiced it with her as a rap song and did beat boxing for her every time she practiced. When she got up to do the speech I did a b.l.o.o.d gang hand sign at her and she laughed instead haha.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

So.... Chickens = zombie dinosaurs? /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am the soft stars that shine at night

Um, ackschually...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

The flickering of them in the atmosphere is her so it's just justified enough for a poem

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

do not stand by my grave and weep

stand by the grave of margaret thatcher and piss