So sorry for your loss. I spent hours on the Internet looking for (Reply #29)

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Fri May 29, 2015, 11:26 PM

applegrove (115,617 posts)

29. So sorry for your loss. I spent hours on the Internet looking for

poems and readings for my mom's memorial service. Just type in what your dad loved and the word poem and see what you find. We ended up using a Mary Oliver poem. She has many nice nature ones. Not too religious.

We used 'Sleeping In The Forest' by Mary Oliver. I had seen it months before but felt it was too dark. Then when mom passed and I was there I saw the poem again and it was no longer too dark. Good luck on your journey. It was gratifying to find the right poem. My brother read it at the service.

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42 replies	Author	Time	Post
It is with some trepidation I post here [View all]	BainsBane	May 2015	OP
A UU hymnal may be of some help.	Laffy Kat	May 2015	#1
Maybe the priest has some ideas. Or maybe your dad's old hippie friends do.	struggle4progress	May 2015	#2
kick...	daleanime	May 2015	#3
Sorry for the passing of your father, BB. Kind thoughts to you.	misterhighwasted	May 2015	#4
That's a nice one	BainsBane	May 2015	#7
My mother just informed me that Gibran is gauche	BainsBane	May 2015	#18
You could check out Marianne Williamson's Illuminata	catrose	May 2015	#5
Thanks, I will. nt	BainsBane	May 2015	#9
There are a lot of meaningful songs that generation sang, with various words	struggle4progress	May 2015	#6
We do have a musician	BainsBane	May 2015	#8
The funerals I've attended often begin dark and mournfully but end upbeat	struggle4progress	May 2015	#10
We're having it in the park, outside	BainsBane	May 2015	#11
May your memories be a blessing	struggle4progress	May 2015	#12
Thank you.	BainsBane	May 2015	#13
When Joyce died, we had no music and no poems and no prayers.	Hoppy	May 2015	#14
Wow. What a lovely idea.	BainsBane	May 2015	#15
Why have a "service" at all?	Warren Stupidity	May 2015	#16
For his friends and family	BainsBane	May 2015	#19
This is a nice older( sort of) hippie song.	misterhighwasted	May 2015	#17
I think John Prine was his favorite	BainsBane	May 2015	#20
Yes John Prine.	misterhighwasted	May 2015	#21
He was 74	BainsBane	May 2015	#22
Yes I understand, my father's life ended for a similar reason	misterhighwasted	May 2015	#24
Thanks so much	BainsBane	May 2015	#25
"Johnny Got His Gun" was actually a 1938 novel about a badly wounded WWI soldier:	struggle4progress	May 2015	#26
Oh yes..I recall some history there with Trumbo.	misterhighwasted	May 2015	#34
Cool man, your dad.	misterhighwasted	May 2015	#23
The song is Pete Seeger's rewrite of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8	struggle4progress	May 2015	#27
It's from the Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8	Iris	May 2015	#39
When my dad passed away (at 92)	The Velveteen Ocelot	May 2015	#28
So sorry for your loss. I spent hours on the Internet looking for	applegrove	May 2015	#29
Best to you.	xfundy	May 2015	#30
poetry that expresses deep emotions for those who we love and who just passed on.	achsadu	May 2015	#32
I went to a return to Earth day funeral	yeoman6987	May 2015	#31
Sorry BB. I wrote a short story which had a theme. I'll DUmail it to you if you want. It's my view.	freshwest	May 2015	#33
He told us he had no preference about burial or memorial service	BainsBane	May 2015	#36
Crossing The Bar - Tennyson (nt)	malokvale77	May 2015	#35
Any particular literature or poetry, or even ideas he might have liked?	AtheistCrusader	May 2015	#37
I would imagine an Episcopal priest would end the service with The Lord's Prayer.	NaturalHigh	May 2015	#38
I am so sorry for your loss.	cbayer	May 2015	#40
Thank you, cbayer	BainsBane	May 2015	#41
Sorry for your loss BainsBane,	pinto	May 2015	#42

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