A ring-whorled prow rode in the harbour,
ice-clad, outbound, a craft for a prince.
They stretched their beloved lord in his boat,
laid out by the mast, amidships,
the great ring-giver. Far fetched treasures
were piled upon him, and precious gear.
I have never heard before of a ship so well furbished
with battle tackle, bladed weapons
and coats of mail. The massed treasure
was loaded on top of him: it would travel far
on out into the ocean's sway.
They decked his body no less bountifully
with offerings than those first ones did
who cast him away when he was a child
and launched him alone over the waves.
And they set a gold standard up
high above his head and let him drift
to wind and tide, bewailing him
and mourning their loss. No man can tell,
no wise man in hall or weathered veteran
knows for certain who salvaged that load.

Seamus Heaney

Mots clés poetry burial beowulf

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Delay is not a help-mate. The cemetary is full of people who thought they could DO IT tomorrow. Do It Now!

Israelmore Ayivor

Mots clés procrastination people dead die excuses burial grave tomorrow graveyard help funeral full cemetary tomb mate do-it delay israelmore-ayivor do-it-now fod-for-thought help-mate start-now tomorrow-never-comes

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The Kikuyu, when left to themselves, do not bury their dead, but leave them above ground for the hyenas and vultures to deal with. The custom had always appealed to me, I thought that it would be pleasant thing to be laid out to the sun and the stars, and to be so promptly, neatly, and openly picked and cleansed; to be made one with Nature and become a common component of a landscape.

Karen Blixen

Mots clés nature death burial

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