Last Request

sonnet in tetrameter

Last Request.

 

I want no marble monument

 erected in my memory

I’m sure that I would lie content

 beneath the branches of a tree.

Ignore established precedent

 when it is time to bury me.

Remember all the hours we spent

living and loving happily.

Pay me the supreme compliment.

Let my body nourish a tree.

Creating something permanent

 a thing of natural beauty.

I can trust you above the rest

 to carry out my last request.

 

Monday, 26 July 2010

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Reviews

[Marianne]

A solemn request set in a cheerful tone of "immortality". I love your sentiment and echo Phibby below....excellent writing !!

[Phibby Venable]

This is really excellent writing. I love the movement
and the message...also, nourishing a tree reminds me
of a friend, he had his ashes scattered under a dogwood
on his favorite trail.
Very fine work.