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Do not stand at my grave and weep

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • fartsparkles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love the indentations and line breaks of the original when first published:

         Do not stand
              By my grave, and weep.
         I am not there,
              I do not sleep—
    I am the thousand winds that blow
    I am the diamond glints in snow
    I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
    I am the gentle, autumn rain.
    As you awake with morning’s hush,
    I am the swift, up-flinging rush
    Of quiet birds in circling flight,
    I am the day transcending night.
         Do not stand
              By my grave, and cry—
         I am not there,
              I did not die.

    — Clare Harner, The Gypsy, December 1934

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    • dditty@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Beautiful prose, thanks for sharing fartsparkles@lemmy.world

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  • Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Beautiful.

    Identity is just something our brains invent to better make sense of the world. It doesn’t exist as anything other than a thought. You are the universe and the universe is me. The only thing that goes away when anything “dies”, is the illusiory and self-imposed border between the “individual” and the rest of it all.

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  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Goddamn onion ninjas…

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  • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nature is poetry.

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am the soft stars that shine at night

    Um, ackschually…

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    • FarceOfWill@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The flickering of them in the atmosphere is her so it’s just justified enough for a poem

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  • MistressRemilia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So… Chickens = zombie dinosaurs? /s

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