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[thread] Do not stand at my grave and weep (mander.xyz)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 82 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Beautiful ~~prose~~ poetry, thanks for sharing fartsparkles@lemmy.world

[-] Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

This is poetry not prose

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

Ty, edited!

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

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

It hurts.

[-] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[-] Deme@sopuli.xyz 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Goddamn onion ninjas...

[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago

Nature is poetry.

[-] comrade19@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks 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.