Poem Search: Funeral

[druffine]

After the poem-question worked so well last time.

Thanks again to everyone who pasted me a poem or gave me links!

I now have a slightly more difficult 'challenge'.

For a fic I need a poem a guy could read out loud at a funeral of a young woman, she was loved very much but in a non-sexual way. It should be somehow bittersweet, not too dark, somehow hopeful but desperate.

I really appreciate all help.



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Comments

[ficbitca-bear.livejournal.com]

To me, the most perfect bittersweet poem is Funeral Blues by WH Auden, but I don't think that it really fits in with what you want. Therefore, I've got a couple of suggestions.

I don't know who wrote this one, all I know is that it was sent to George Bush (the ex-president, not the current one)
So I am glad not that my loved one has gone
But that the earth she laughed and lived on
Was my earth, too.
That I had known and loved her,
And that my love I’d shown.
Tears over her departure?
Nay a smile
That I had walked with her a little while

OR

I am there by Iris Hesselden

Look for me when the tide is high
And the gulls are wheeling overhead
When the autumn wind sweeps the cloudy sky
And one by one the leaves are shed
Look for me when the trees are bare
And the stars are bright in the frosty sky
When the morning mist hangs on the air
And shorter darker days pass by.

I am there, where the river flows
And salmon leap to a silver moon
Where the insects hum and the tall grass grows
And sunlight warms the afternoon
I am there in the busy street
I take you hand in the city square
In the market place where the people meet
In your quiet room – I am there

I am the love you cannot see
And all I ask is – look for me.