More Music in Cemeteries III. . .
the loneliness of it -- the
dead feeling of winter.
Something waits beneath it -- the whole story doesn't show.
- attributed to Andrew Wyeth, quoted from Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint
Let winter
stay!
I like her sober dress.
Arrest the buds that press
Through the
brown bosom of the earth.
Hold back the Spring!
Winter in her frozen
heart
Holds everything!
- from "Leave Me My Grief" by Sarah Churchill from her collection The Empty Places
I prayed to you for a blessing, for grace
from the slow scream of the city's sorrow.
You sent snow.
- from Jeni Couzyn's poem "Grace for Snow" from the poetry collection To Say the Least edited by P. K. Page
They fall, and falling,
they're given wings.
--Rumi, from his poem "Birds Make Great Sky-Circles"
Friend, when I am dead,
Make a cup of the clay I become,
And if you remember, drink from it.
Should your lips cling to the cup,
It will be but my earthly kiss.
- Traditional Mexican folksong, quoted from Memory and Dream by Charles deLint
Spring!
Yet I have nothing new
To sing
- from "Song to a Season" by Sarah Churchill in her poetry collection The Empty Spaces
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