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[pensnest]

Thank you so much, everyone who commented on my last post. It is very comforting to experience that kindness.

Now, we have a funeral to plan, and for many reasons we're not going to go the conventional route and have a service at the crematorium, with funeral parade and mounds of flowers, etc. We are working out how to do a memorial at home, when the restrictions are lifted a little further and those few family members who live elsewhere in the country can all get here. We'll ask that everyone contribute a little bit - a eulogy, or a memory, or a reading.

I would like to find a handful of poems that are not Christian (or otherwise religious), don't mention someone smiling down from an afterlife, etc. I also don't want a poem that explains what a jolly fellow the deceased was, and how he'd want us all to eat, drink and be merry at his funeral, because frankly, he was not that kind of person. Something quiet. There is a nice one by Margaret Mead called 'Remember Me', and I found something by Joe Brainard which might be useable, perhaps in extracts, but I think my son will find it difficult to work out what to say and would love to offer him a choice of poetry.

It isn't easy, so I thought I'd crowdsource a little bit.

Can anyone point me to any poems that could fit? No religion, no afterlife, no jollity.

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