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Two Poems from our Funerals Poetry Collection
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| Unity of the Elements |
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Rajaram Ramachandran
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It was a pompous show,
For everyone should know,
The funeral procession
Of a rich man of the town.
Inch by Inch, the funeral cart moved.
Step by step, the mourners walked.
In black costumes, each one was dressed.
Front and back, march passed the crowd.
At the gate of the burning ghat,
The procession came to a halt.
Each one spoke, in praise of the dead
And tears flowed, for what they said.
On the sandalwood bed,
The body was laid,
And his son lit the fire,
That engulfed the funeral pyre.
The dead man's remains,
In the form of ash and bones,
To the sea, were consigned
As a finish, at the end.
At the bottom of the seabed
The bone of a poor man dead
Addressed his bone and said
'Welcome to this silent seabed.'
'The difference, when we were alive
Is no more with us, now let us live,
Not as poor or rich, but as one element,
No hatred feelings to foment.'
From the elements, man comes,
And back to the elements, he goes.
In between arises a low-high status,
That brings a world of differences.
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| a sleep in the ground |
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Sammie Bagley
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a sleep in the ground |
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a sleep in the ground They all laid one by one a sleep, in a hole in the ground, that was very deep. In this hole in the ground, they will never see a sunrise are sunset every again, their flesh is all forgotten now only bones. These poor men, women and children, a sleep in the ground... By starstruck13
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