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There is a certain comfort
to imagine the space
where you will rest,
to stand above it,
see the green of its turf,
to observe a nearby tree,
its ruddy flowers and fruit,
to read your own name
chiseled on the stone.
There is a certain peace
to feel your feet planted
in the place where they will stop
the hop skip jump of life,
to notice a clump of clover
deliver sunlight down roots
where someday you’ll lie,
close lipped and feeding.
Dayna Patterson sometimes waxes morbid in her fantasizing. She would prefer a lilac bush, or a smattering of wildflowers, to a stone. For her bio, click here.
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Very fine. A lovely way to adjust the mind.
Whoever said of this poem that you sometimes wax morbid, got it very wrong. A memento mori might not be the very cheeriest of subjects for a poem, but spiritually it is importants. Moerike wrote a lovely poem entitled ‘Denk’ es, o Seele’ (Think it, o soul). Your poem is in fact very mild, very gentle, compared against some funerary statuary I have seen with the dead portrayed in all his glory on the top slab (a table top) of a tomb, and in a state of advanced decay on another slab beneath, and also compared to one of the meditative exercises taught by the Buddha, the contemplation of rotting corpses at various stages of decomposition. This was possible in his day, as there were charnal grounds, where corpses were simply laid out on the ground (presumably those from families that could not gather the money for fuel to cremate their dead. Even the Buddha recommended this sort of meditation was not to be undertaken by any who are prone to depression.
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