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greatpoetry2006-10-17 04:22 pm
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Hi.
We've just had a loss in my extended family. Can anyone post any beautiful poems about death? Not any too religious or too sappy?
**EDIT: This had turned out to be a beautiful thread. Thank you for all of your kind words.
We've just had a loss in my extended family. Can anyone post any beautiful poems about death? Not any too religious or too sappy?
**EDIT: This had turned out to be a beautiful thread. Thank you for all of your kind words.
Japanese Death Poems... courtesy of Salon.com
Empty-handed I entered the world
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going --
Two simple happenings
That got entangled.
A few days before his death, Kozan called his pupils together, ordered them to bury him without ceremony, and forbade them to hold services in his memory. He wrote this poem on the morning of his death, laid down his brush and died sitting upright.
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Senryu, died June 2, 1827
Like dew drops
on a lotus leaf
I vanish.
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Gesshu Soko, died January 10, 1696, at age 79
Inhale, exhale
Forward, back
Living, dying:
Arrows, let flown each to each
Meet midway and slice
The void in aimless flight --
Thus I return to the source.
Re: Japanese Death Poems... courtesy of Salon.com
Re: Japanese Death Poems... courtesy of Salon.com
Re: Japanese Death Poems... courtesy of Salon.com