A tribute to all our loved ones burried here in Northern Cyprus

rejela


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Posts: 293

Message Posted:
29/02/2012 21:50

Rupert Brooke



The Soldier

IF I should die, think only this of me:

That there's some corner of a foreign field

That is forever England. There shall be

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,

A body of England's, breathing English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less

Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;

And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,

In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

rejela


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Posts: 293

Message Posted:
29/02/2012 21:56

This was my mums poem, we lost dad last thursday. They are both burried side by side. The wording in the poem came true for both of them. We will miss you both.

maria1


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Message Posted:
29/02/2012 22:01

Sorry for your loss. What lovely words. I hope their hearts are at peace with love and laughter in their hearts.

Sandra x

suehowlittle


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Message Posted:
29/02/2012 22:14

So sorry for you - very difficult time.



In the words of an unknown bishop "do not look for me or weep for me - I am only in the next room, somewhere, just around the corner"



I wish I could remember the whole beautiful message. Its about not grieving too much but remembering your loved ones with joy instead.



Your memories will sustain you.



God Bless You

rejela


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Posts: 293

Message Posted:
29/02/2012 22:45

Thank you for your kind comments.

puppylover



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Message Posted:
29/02/2012 23:06

So sorry to hear of the passing of your father rejela.



May both you parents rest in peace side by side.



Kind Regards



Judy

brother



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Message Posted:
29/02/2012 23:37

I think I know how you must feel at this time. My father died just over a year ago and I returned to Cyprus for his funeral - a stressful experience well beyond the actual loss - I had no idea what the Muslim practice of burial entailed.



My condolences go out to you and your family.

CarrieRBag



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Posts: 1374

Message Posted:
01/03/2012 08:42

Do you mean this one Msg 4?



Do not stand at my grave and weep;

I am not there. I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow.

I am the diamond glints on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain.

I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning's hush

I am the swift uplifting rush

Of quiet birds in circled flight.

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry;

I am not there. I did not die.





Written at least 50 years ago, this poem has been attributed at different times to J.T. Wiggins (an English emigre to America), two Americans: Mary E. Fry and Marianne Reinhardt, and more recently to Stephen Cummins, a British soldier killed in Northern Ireland who left a copy for his relatives. Others claim it is a Navajo burial prayer.



Wilbur Skeels turned this into a song (protected by copyright) in 1966 but he changed the middle section keeping the first two and last two lines original.

CarrieRBag



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Posts: 1374

Message Posted:
01/03/2012 08:43

This is also a lovely one, which I read out at my sister's funeral. (by Edgar A Guest)



When I come to the end of the road

And the sun has set for me

I want no rites in a gloom-filled room.

Why cry for a soul set free?



Miss me a little–but not too long

And not with your head bowed low.

Remember the love that we once shared,

Miss me–but let me go.



For this is a journey that we all must take

And each must go alone.

It's all a part of the Master's plan,

A step on the road to home.



When you are lonely and sick of heart

Go to the friends we know

And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds.

Miss Me–But Let me Go!

crofter


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Message Posted:
01/03/2012 08:44

suehowlittle........I think this is the passage you refer to



Death is nothing at all.

I have only slipped away into the next room.

I am I, and you are you.

Whatever we were to each other, that we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name,

speak to me in the easy way which you always used.

Put no difference in your tone,

wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.

Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.

Let my name be ever the household word that it always was,

let it be spoken without effect,

without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.

It is the same that it ever was;

there is unbroken continuity.

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

I am waiting for you, for an interval,

somewhere very near, just round the corner.

And all is well



Canon Henry Scott Holland

Death is Nothing At All.

pammick


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Message Posted:
01/03/2012 09:05

Such beautiful words, thank you to all the posters. You have my condolences rejela, I hope you take some comfort in the knowledge that your mum and dad are now together again.

Pam

englishman


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Message Posted:
01/03/2012 09:29

Thay are forever in our thoughts,



Never forgoten.

davpat


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Message Posted:
01/03/2012 10:26

there are some fabulous words in the previous posts..........very moving,condolences Rejela.





David

rejela


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Posts: 293

Message Posted:
01/03/2012 15:07

Thank you all for your support, I can rest assured that they are together now as they both wished. I think we tend to look at death from the wrong perspective and mourn the loss of a loved one, whilst some people celebrate the life of their loved on.



Thank you.

suehowlittle


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Posts: 1202

Message Posted:
01/03/2012 15:58

Crofter, yes, exactly that one. It gave me great comfort when my husband died 25 years ago this month.



It is very beautiful and very apt.



Thankyou