Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there; I do not sleep.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: death, epitaph, imagery, loss, Mary Elizabeth Frye
how can I say farewell
when farewells are made
only for people who stay
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: A.K. Ramanujam, loss, lyric poetry, mystic, philosophy
Poetry demands surrender,
language saying what is true,
doing holy things to the ordinary.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: imagery, Pamela Spiro Wagner, poems about poetry, reading