Where Your Ashes Lay – v2

I saw again, the picture
where your ashes lay, shared,
on the frozen, snow-covered ground
spread out on the side of the slope
the mountain you loved so well…
released to the winds, to the earth
your ashes feeding the ground,
trees, the mosses, the grasses,
ferns of that hillside you love,
long since one with the soil
returned to earth, to the dust,
may God grant rest for your soul…
 
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Edited August 27, 2024
Where Your Ashes Lay – v2
 
Edited August 23, 2024
Acceptance – 2 – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/acceptance-2-v2.html
July 15, 2024
Acceptance - 2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/acceptance-2.html
July 13, 2024
https://x.com/TheRealJackRose/status/1812232380276756483  
Part of poem challenge on Realistic Poetry Twitter Group
https://x.com/i/communities/1690417242427855156  
Jack- Aspiring writer, poet and reviewer.
@TheRealJackRose
Collaborative poem on the five stages of grief:
denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance
&
Edited March 28, 2024
I touched the brains of my father – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/03/i-touched-brains-of-my-father-v3.html
Edited March 28, 2024
I am not ready – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/03/i-am-not-ready-v3.html
&
February 14, 2021
thirty years ago tonight
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/thirty-years-ago-tonight.html
February 14, 2021
When love became loss
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/when-love-became-loss.html
February 14, 2021
I miss you Dad
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/i-miss-you-dad.html
February 13, 2021
Thirty years ago
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/thirty-years-ago.html
February 13, 2021
processing history
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/processing-history.html
30th anniversary of black ice car accident death
of my father, Arthur Leon Foss, Jr.,
Rochester, NH near Mile Marker 19
Spaulding Turnpike
before it was separated lanes
&
October 2, 2012
Your final resting place
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/10/your-final-resting-place.html
inspired by readings at Poets’ Corner
monthly poetry reading,
at the Suncook Senior Center
October 1, 2012
& earlier poem
May 31, 2008
Where Your Ashes Lay
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2008/05/where-you-ashes-lay.html
 
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