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. . . Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth . . .

---Revelation 14:13

 

Some have died outside the Faith.

None have died outside the Love of God through Christ.

Some have died outside the esteem of others.

Some have died into their own self-esteem---

the bottomless Pit, a swirl of steel-gray agonies,

and they scream, "Stop the steel.  Stop the steel."

 

For the sake of our fellowship among the Faithful,

bury me near to deceased Orthodox Christians;

near to the tombs of deceased Orthodox Christians---

the redeemed of the Orthodox Church, the great congregation,

to whom the joy of Christ's gift of the common Salvation

was and is, and ever shall be, their souls' chief exultation;

those whose souls still abide

in the prayer, Let God be magnified.

 

J-9thxciv, an Orthodox Christian

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Author's Notes/Comments: 

The poem alludes to Jude 3, and Psalms 35:9, 18 and 70:4.

 

For myself, I ask that the marker of my grave can be a grass-level plate rather than a standing stone (I do not have that much life insurance, lol).  See the flat plate that marks the burial place of the Welsh poet, Dyfed (the Reverend Evan Reese, 1850-1923) at Cathays Cemetery in Cardiff.

 

I ask for the following design:

 

an image of my Lord's Crucifix, or a Cross, [followed by]


Starward [my FINAL poetic appellation, and then]

 

[my mundane first name, my adoptive ancestors' surname, and then my dates]

 

1958-20??

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©13 October 2022 - 1:39am — J-C4113d
14 October 2022 - 3:09am — redbrick
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...quite sad on one side

...quite sad on one side quite sobering on another and still solemn on another facet. Sure that as this sits and simmers it will produce so much more that the short lines first convey.

here is poetry that doesn't always conform

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14 October 2022 - 8:49pm — J-C4113d
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Thank you for those kind

Thank you for those kind words!

J-Called