Earth To Earth Ashes To Ashes Dust To Dust
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust
are we merely earth, ashes and dust
with awareness
free will
and a conscience
consciousness
with the ability to choose
guided by our morality
or is there more
should there be more
must there be more
is it maybe
our dissatisfaction
with the here and now
that causes us to believe in more
to wish for more
I am quite happy
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Categories:
ashes to ashes dust to dust, life,
Form: Free verse
Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Dust
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
All that’s manifest, is but dust
Dead leaves falling, upon earth’s crust
Yet in-dwells in all, God essence
Enlivened by divine breath just
Child of God, glows in innocence
Heart bubbles forth effervescence
Earth life a school, where we awake
Rekindling soul’s luminescence
It matters not how long we’ll take
All will rise, none will
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Categories:
ashes to ashes dust to dust, spiritual,
Form: Rubaiyat
Ashes To Ashes Dust To Dust
Excerpt from the Book of Common Prayer,
For the Burial of the Dead
"Earth to Earth, ashes to ashes,
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Categories:
ashes to ashes dust to dust, bereavement, environment, memory, missing
Form: Dizain
Ashes To Ashes Dust To Dust
Ashes to ashes… dust to dust…
We begin as a tiny cell and die with our remains turning into
little brittle specks of dust. All of our existence ends with our
bodies melting into the earth churning with the clay. We live for
love, we die in peace and through our journey we are taken
through
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Categories:
ashes to ashes dust to dust, death,
Form: Free verse
Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Dust
I find myself at times in my life,
at a turning point- which way do I go?
and I always returned to the foothills
Searching for an inkling of a feeling of home
Long after the farm had been foreclosed on
Sad, as I watch the cattle now in the pasture-
where my Dad and granpas markers and ashes
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Categories:
ashes to ashes dust to dust, america,
Form: Free verse