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Feedback - Contemplative view of the moment of illness
"Some things are just lost for good..." We received this poem, entitled "Lost Things", from a friend, with the following message: "The poet who wrote this is young and very ill right now, in a hospital in Tennessee. I know of her through a favorite blogger. There is a call for group prayers to be sent to 'Jilly', thanks, Lindsey" ... We thought that the poem was so good, it deserved proper exposure. We hope Jilly approves. It fits perfectly with our other messages here for those going through hard times. (P-9093)
Final Message *1 at Death or Funeral
man. Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream? A message pondering the realities of life (a poem by John Keats). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9051)
Final Message *2 at Death or Funeral
woman. Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream? A message pondering the realities of life (a poem by John Keats changed slightly to make it more appropriate to the recipient). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9052)
Final Message *3 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. And when I feel ... that I shall never look upon thee more... A message pondering the end of high romance (a part of a poem by John Keats). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9053)
Final Message *4 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. Adieu, Adieu... A statement of goodbye expressing sorrow and wonder (a part of a poem by John Keats). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9054)
Final Message *5 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. Come not, you said, when I am dead, to drop thy foolish tears upon my grave... A statement of goodbye understanding your wish that life goes on (an adaptation of a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9055)
Final Message *6 at Death or Funeral
man. He is now everywhere... A revelation brought about by the end of a wonderful life (a poem by Lesbia Harford). Includes a place to include his name (twice in fact) and the name of sender (P-9056)
Final Message *8 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. For those who believe in eternal life for all humanity ... Death be not proud! A defiant message directed at death itself (a verse from a poem by John Donne). Includes a place to include the name of sender (P-9058)
Final Message *9 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. Our life is short; and our days run as fast away as does the sun ... (a poem by Robert Herrick). Includes a place to include the name of sender (P-9059)
Final Message 10 at Death or Funeral
man. He is not here but far away... A statement of the ugliness of the world and the blank day caused by his death (a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9060)
Final Message 11 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. And quitting life (ye) shall quit thy living pain ... (a poem by John Dryden). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9061)
Final Message 12 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. No more walks in the wood... (a poem remembering us making love in the wood on the way home, now no more, by John Hollander). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9062)
Final Message 13 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. The night has a thousand eyes... (a poem about the death of the light of a whole life when love is done, by Francis William Bourdillon). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9063)
Final Message 14 at Death or Funeral
woman. A little ahead of me ... (a poetic narrative about the character of the illusion represented by time, by Albert Einstein, with a couple of little changes to make it available to the non-scientist and meaningful to a woman). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9064)
Final Message 15 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. Only desert remains... (a poem about the undulating desert left behind when our love is gone, by Federico Garcia Lorca). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9065)
Final Message 16 at Death or Funeral
man. A little ahead of me ... (a poetic narrative about the character of the illusion represented by time, by Albert Einstein, with a small change to make it available to the non-scientist). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9066)
Final Message 17 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. At least someone will remember... (a tiny message by Sappho (on or around 650BC) probably originally to a recently departed Lesbian lover but now could apply from anyone to anyone). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9067)
Final Message 19 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. The meaning of song... (and its relationship to life and death, just a couple of words by WB Yeats but powerful words). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9069)
Final Message 20 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. Do not sing sad songs... (a message from a woman, adapted from a poem by James Joyce about the importance of the love we leave behind). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9070)
Final Message 21 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. Do not sing sad songs... (a message from a man, adapted from a poem by James Joyce about the importance of the love we leave behind). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9071)
Final Message 22 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. In thy last repose... A message pondering the differences between my love who has come safe to port, and me, still at sea... (a ninth century poem by Abbess of Grandestine with words still as powerful today as we can only assume they were then). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9072)
Final Message 23 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. Love slumbers on... A message about memory which remains, like the end of music or the smell of a rose... (a poem by Shelley; fresh words as if written yesterday). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9073)
Final Message 25 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. We are such stuff as dreams are made on... (powerful words you might have expected from Albert Einstein but coming from Shakespeare in his requiem at the end of The Tempest, linking the death of his actors and ourselves and everything to the end of the universe; maybe making sense of Einstein's "illusion of time" that Einstein can only hint at). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9075)
Final Message 26 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. No life lives forever... A beautiful statement of understanding and of complete acceptance of the momentary nature of life (a poem by Swinburne). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9076)
Final Message 27 at Death or Funeral
man or a woman. The silence is vast... The realities of life are in the limitations of time (a poem by Samuel Menashe). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9077)
Final Message 28 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. Where is it now, the glory and the dream?... A dark message reacting to the passing of the joys of life by asking where has it all gone (one verse from a poem by William Wordsworth). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9078)
Final Message 29 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. From sense of pain and grief we shall be free... Death is simply the end of being (a bit of a poem by Lucretius 50BC). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9079)
Final Message 30 at Death or Funeral
woman. Your youth is spent, and yet you are not old... A message from a mother for her young child who has died before his/her time (adapted from some bits borrowed from a poem by Chidiock Tichborne). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9080)
Final Message 31 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. Oh Death, where is thy sting? Oh Grave, where is thy victory? (a poem by Alexander Pope that looks into the final moments of the mind just before death and finds Glory). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9081)
Final Message 32 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. The best is lost! (some key words from a poem by Edna St Vincent Millay that defies death and declares that she does not approve!). Includes a place to include name of sender (P-9082)
Final Message 33 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. We will not grieve but rather find strength in what remains behind; (a verse from a poem by William Wordsworth that replaces the radiance of life with stoic continuity: strength, sympathy and knowledge; maybe finding in this poetic necessity the beginnings of philosophy itself). Includes a place to include name of sender. (P-9083)
Final Message 34 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, this dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate? (a couple of opposing verses from a poem by Shelley; the first that knows the desolation of death; the second that looks forward to some time in the future where I might have matured enough to replace this desolation with love). Includes a place to include name of sender. (P-9084)
Final Message 35 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. I am borne darkly, fearfully afar; whilst your soul beacons like a star (in this piece Shelley places his friend and rival Adonais (John Keats) into the realm of the eternal). Includes a place to include name of sender. (P-9085)
Final Message 36 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. Love you for ever ... (adapted from a verse from a poem by Browning in which he reviews the life of his loved one as the seasons in one year). Includes a place to include name of sender. (P-9086)
Final Message 37 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. Dear old friend... (adapted from a snippet borrowed from a poem by Browning in which he reacts to a picture of his friend who has just died). Includes a place to include name of sender. (P-9087)
Final Message 39 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. To the fateless ones all is given... (a little poem by Kathleen Raine envying those little elements of nature that are the angels of the present). Includes a place to include name of sender. (P-9089)
Final Message 40 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. Ah, many, many are the dead... (one of Kathleen Raine's short poems recognising that I am but the collection of all those gone before). Includes a place to include name of sender. (P-9090)
Final Message 41 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. Let it be so... (a verse from one of Kathleen Raine's poems that looks into the mind of the dying and sees a joy to go). Includes a place to include name of sender. (P-9091)
Final Message 42 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. Revisiting scenes of past delight... (a verse from one of Thomas Moore's poems that sees me flying to a meeting with your spirit). Includes a place to include name of sender. (P-9092)
Final Message 43 at Death or Funeral
man or woman. Death is the gate of hell... (a snippet from the pragmatic George Bernard Shaw). Includes a place to include name of sender. (P-9094)
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