Memorial Gathering Poems (2016-2024 )
2019
Ode to Your Boots by Julie Gilmour
Slowly, Slowly They Return by Wendell Berry
The Guest House by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field by Mary Oliver
previous years: (sorry for the delay, the poems haven't been linked to their titles yet):
Ariels Song (excerpt), from The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night, Dylan Thomas
Heavy by Mary Oliver
In Blackwater Woods, Mary Oliver
Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond, Mary Oliver
No Going Back, by Wendell Berry
Remember, Christina Rossetti and Stephen Chatman
The Death of a Parent, by Linda Pastan
The Last Kaddish, by Brenda Serotte
The Three Elegiac Poems (III.), Wendell Berry
Tis a Fearful Thing, Yehuda HaLevi
Untitled, Nancy Wood
What I Will Miss, Nora Ephron
When Death Comes, by Mary Oliver
When Great Trees Fall, Maya Angelou
Where to put the Ashes, Nina Riggs
Wherever You Go, Monks of Weston Priory
White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field, Mary Oliver