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Robert Lindley
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1. Poetry is a stone, turned to expose to searching winds of a once hidden earth.
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2. Poetry is art, mind painted, heart colored and fire risen.
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3. Poetry is a fruit, hanging on a bountiful tree, begging to fall.
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4. Poetry is an ever expanding ocean, begging ever more creatures to swim in its swirling depths.
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5. Poetry is cake on a golden platter, eaten with fork, spoon, butter knife or greedy hands.
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6. Poetry is cherry blossoms, crying for the soft, cool winds to wave their beauty to the awaiting sun and the gasping skies.
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7. Poetry is glistening dewdrops falling upon virgin ground to gift dawn's hope and night's desire to match brilliance of glistening moonbeams.
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8. Poetry is a poet's heart and soul uniting to bless others, while temporarily shielding searching souls against this dark world's poison tipped arrows.
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9. Poetry is brightly sent musical notes that heart sees, mind colors and spirit longs to record.
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10. Poetry is ink blotted, soul driven splashes that cry to be read, beg to be understood and unabashedly sing to give to its dear readers.
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11.Poetry is a colorful bird, in heavenly flight to a paradise that awaits man's sincere pleading heart and desirous spirit.
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12. Poetry is a child happily playing, a mother joyfully singing and a father blessed to have and so very dearly appreciate loving both.
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Mary Elizabeth Frye, Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep

Blog Posted by Robert Lindley: 4/27/2018 7:18:00 AM

An amazing poem by a relatively unknown poetess, simply beautiful..

https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/do-not-stand-by-my-grave-and-weep-by-mary-elizabeth-frye

Famous Death Poem

The original poem was written in 1932 by Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905-2004) from Baltimore, MD. There are in existence many slightly different versions of the poem. This extremely famous poem has been read at countless funerals and public occasions. The author composed this poem in a moment of inspiration and scribbled it on a paper bag. She wrote it to comfort a family friend who had just lost her mother and was unable to even visit her grave. This is the only surviving poem of Mary Elizabeth Frye and quite possibly her only poem.

 

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Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight. 
I am the soft stars that shine at night. 
Do not stand at my grave and cry, 
I am not there; I did not die.

If you can read that and then fail to see or feel the beauty. power, majesty of hope in that wondrous poetic creation then I am sorry that your life is so unrewarding and you are so very lost. God bless..RJL



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Gauthier
Date: 4/27/2018 9:30:00 PM
Thank you so much for sharing, Robert. I had totally forgotten about this beauty. Most appreciated.
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Robert Lindley
Date: 4/28/2018 9:33:00 AM
Thank you my friend fr commenting. Could it be, that this fine poem is more well known than I have first thought?
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Date: 4/27/2018 7:28:00 AM
For me, this is a truly amazing poem. That this great poem is relatively unknown is a travesty in my opinion. FIRST TIME I READ THIS POEM, I WAS AWESTRUCK. I WANTED TO READ MORE OF HER WORKS BUT FOUND NO MORE. Could it be that writing one truly great and brilliant gem is not enough?
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Robert Lindley
Date: 4/27/2018 9:15:00 AM
Thank you Brian. Her poem struck me to the core. I also saw that she lived to be 98 years old! After such a brilliant creation, I am truly shocked that she wrote no other poems that are known. I just finished my tribute poem to her and posted it here mere moments ago- titled, "Hold Not A Sad Vigil For Me" Of course it does not reach the level of her magnificent gem, but we poets do our best and must be content with that.
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Brian Strand
Date: 4/27/2018 8:50:00 AM
Robert here is wiki link to this poem and lady https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Elizabeth_Frye
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Brian Strand
Date: 4/27/2018 8:40:00 AM
Quite well known over here Robert,I have heard it a few times at secular style funerals.

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