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Reflective Quatrains89 total reviews
Comment from MJMuraco
This poem is beautiful, I have told my husband that I don't want to be laid out in a casket. I have been to many funerals like that. They say the viewing is for the living loved ones, but I feel strongly, that I want them to celebrate my life in the form of a party and enjoyable get together. I don't think that he is comfortable with this but I want to be cremated. throw my ashes in the woods behind my house that I love and enjoy the party. I don't want people that I love to be sad. Your poem really brought this home.
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2009
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This poem is beautiful, I have told my husband that I don't want to be laid out in a casket. I have been to many funerals like that. They say the viewing is for the living loved ones, but I feel strongly, that I want them to celebrate my life in the form of a party and enjoyable get together. I don't think that he is comfortable with this but I want to be cremated. throw my ashes in the woods behind my house that I love and enjoy the party. I don't want people that I love to be sad. Your poem really brought this home.
Comment Written 17-Mar-2009
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2009
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I like your spirit! thanks, Brooke
Comment from MaureenC
Brooke, I cannot find anything negative about this piece either. I loved reading, the flow and rhyme simply took me on without hesitation.
Lovely
Maureen
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2009
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Brooke, I cannot find anything negative about this piece either. I loved reading, the flow and rhyme simply took me on without hesitation.
Lovely
Maureen
Comment Written 16-Mar-2009
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2009
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Maureen, thank you for your positive comments, Brooke
Comment from Gaye Hemsley
Hi Brooke My feelings exactly, in fact I have written a poem about the same subject.(Will post it soon) I love the way you have bought in all your favorite memories, just lovely
Cheers Gaye
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2009
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Hi Brooke My feelings exactly, in fact I have written a poem about the same subject.(Will post it soon) I love the way you have bought in all your favorite memories, just lovely
Cheers Gaye
Comment Written 16-Mar-2009
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2009
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Gaye, thank you - I always appreciate your kind reviews,Brooke
Comment from elainec4
adewpearl,
This is lovely. The words and the images they evoke stir the soul. Makes one contemplate one's mortality and the hereafter. You've captured a genuine feeling shared by many. Thanks. elaine
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2009
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adewpearl,
This is lovely. The words and the images they evoke stir the soul. Makes one contemplate one's mortality and the hereafter. You've captured a genuine feeling shared by many. Thanks. elaine
Comment Written 16-Mar-2009
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2009
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Elaine, thanks so much for your kind review, Brooke
Comment from Amicus
Great message from the narrator to his/her loved ones in this poem, Brooke. Don't commemorate my death; celebrate my life. And he/her then gives them clear direction how to do this. That so much can be communicated so beautifully in so few verses impresses me.
Lovely.
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2009
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Great message from the narrator to his/her loved ones in this poem, Brooke. Don't commemorate my death; celebrate my life. And he/her then gives them clear direction how to do this. That so much can be communicated so beautifully in so few verses impresses me.
Lovely.
Comment Written 16-Mar-2009
reply by the author on 17-Mar-2009
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Thank you for your warm and kind comments, Brooke
Comment from mslyla216
You have an entirely self-less message in this deeply reflective poem, Brooke. Your descendents can think of you and reminisce both when spreading the ashes, but again and again in their memories, so that you are never entirely gone from them. That's a gift from a mother and wife. It's a remarkable poem. Lyla
reply by the author on 16-Mar-2009
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You have an entirely self-less message in this deeply reflective poem, Brooke. Your descendents can think of you and reminisce both when spreading the ashes, but again and again in their memories, so that you are never entirely gone from them. That's a gift from a mother and wife. It's a remarkable poem. Lyla
Comment Written 16-Mar-2009
reply by the author on 16-Mar-2009
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Lyla, thank you for your absolutely lovely comments, Brooke
:-)
Comment from glacierbabe
Ok, my friend, were you trying to make me cry. LOL This was beautiful and emotional. I found no errors for correction and I loved the cadence when read aloud. It rhymed perfectly. I hope you have escaped a maudalin mood after writing it. LOL I loved it. Cheryl :)
reply by the author on 16-Mar-2009
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Ok, my friend, were you trying to make me cry. LOL This was beautiful and emotional. I found no errors for correction and I loved the cadence when read aloud. It rhymed perfectly. I hope you have escaped a maudalin mood after writing it. LOL I loved it. Cheryl :)
Comment Written 16-Mar-2009
reply by the author on 16-Mar-2009
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I was not in a maudlin mood at all - hope it didn't come through that way! I was hoping for something much more positive. Thanks, Brooke
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Sorry Brooke. Just the subject was haunting. You did an excellent job and it did not come across maudalin at all. Cheryl :)
Comment from joan marie
We just had a death in the family and it brought up final requests again. I wholeheartedly agree with your choice. Great write. joan marie
reply by the author on 16-Mar-2009
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We just had a death in the family and it brought up final requests again. I wholeheartedly agree with your choice. Great write. joan marie
Comment Written 16-Mar-2009
reply by the author on 16-Mar-2009
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Joan Marie, I think this is something all families should have straight with each other! Otherwise, you never know what will happen to you :-) Thanks, Brooke
Comment from RADIO
High praise for your poem as you
write of this delicate subject
that we spend time with quite
often as I, I didn't say we get older,
Note: I didn't say old.
Well anyway, My mother went into the
pacific and my father into the atlantic.
and my wife doesn't swim.
Radio
reply by the author on 16-Mar-2009
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High praise for your poem as you
write of this delicate subject
that we spend time with quite
often as I, I didn't say we get older,
Note: I didn't say old.
Well anyway, My mother went into the
pacific and my father into the atlantic.
and my wife doesn't swim.
Radio
Comment Written 16-Mar-2009
reply by the author on 16-Mar-2009
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Radio, thanks for your kind review :-) Brooke
Comment from bard owl
I don't want to rot in a casket either. I would much rather be helping other life grow - a dogwood tree, as you mentioned, or a rose garden. We have taken so much from the earth in our lifetimes, we should a least give back the little of what remains of us. Excellently thought-provoking. Blessings to you, Linda
reply by the author on 16-Mar-2009
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I don't want to rot in a casket either. I would much rather be helping other life grow - a dogwood tree, as you mentioned, or a rose garden. We have taken so much from the earth in our lifetimes, we should a least give back the little of what remains of us. Excellently thought-provoking. Blessings to you, Linda
Comment Written 16-Mar-2009
reply by the author on 16-Mar-2009
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Linda, thank you for your supportive and thoughtful review, Brooke
