My Poetry

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width="200" bgcolor="#000000" text="#F7F7FF" background="../jazzfuneral-sub/0a6f4723.jpg"> <br> </td> <td valign="top" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000" text="#F7F7FF"> <div> <font size="5" color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial"><b>Jazz Alive</b></font>    |     <a href="../jazzfuneral-sub/index_htm.html" target="_top" title="Jazz Alive">home</a></div> <div> <a href="../jazzfuneral-sub/jazz_alive.html" target="_top" title="Jazz Funeral">Jazz Funeral</a>   |   <a href="../jazzfuneral-sub/news_media.html" target="_top" title="News Media">News Media</a>   |   <a href="../jazzfuneral-sub/how_tos.html" target="_top" title="How Tos">How Tos</a>   |   <a href="../jazzfuneral-sub/preparations.html" target="_top" title="Preparations">Preparations</a>   |   <b>My Poetry</b>   |   <a href="../jazzfuneral-sub/my_pictuary.html" target="_top" title="My Pictuary">My Pictuary</a>   |   <a href="../jazzfuneral-sub/id18.html" target="_top" title="My Family">My Family</a>   |   <a href="../jazzfuneral-sub/my_pets.html" target="_top" title="My Pets">My Pets</a>   |   <a href="../jazzfuneral-sub/obits.html" target="_top" title="Obits">Obits</a>   |   <a href="../jazzfuneral-sub/my_links.html" target="_top" title="My Links">My Links</a></div> <div> My Poetry</div> <div align="LEFT"></div> <div> <i><b>As now I tread with a load of dreams</b></i></div> <div> <i><b>Awaiting not for a thousand schemes;</b></i></div> <div> <i><b>Along with others by age behest</b></i></div> <div> <i><b>Still knowing truly that I am blessed!</b></i></div> <br> <div> <i><b>Along my journey, as time will tell</b></i></div> <div> <i><b>No rabbit-foot needed to ring my bell;</b></i></div> <div> <i><b>But with Holy Ghost feeling, and a state of Grace</b></i></div> <div> <i><b>All comes together here -- in God's stately place!</b></i></div> <div> <i><b><u>Dan Ellis � 1998</u></b></i></div> <br> <div> <b>Poem by Jessie Heitzmann of Pass Christian, MS -- 8-1-2012</b></div> <br> <div> <b>Remember Me</b></div> <div> When comes the day I return to dust,</div> <div> As inevitably we all must,</div> <div> Lay me down, though not with tears,</div> <div> But joy for all the happy years.</div> <div> Remember me in all things I love,</div> <div> A rainbow arc in the sky above,</div> <div> In winds that sing to swaying trees,</div> <div> And moonlight�s glow on velvet seas.</div> <div> Remember me in a summer storm</div> <div> With lightning streaks in brilliant form,</div> <div> In an evening sunset�s fiery blush</div> <div> And twilight�s quiet, sleepy hush.</div> <div> My spirit will live on, I pray,</div> <div> In all I�ve touched along the way.</div> <div> And if thoughts of me invoke a smile,</div> <div> I�ll know my life has been worthwhile. </div> <br> <br> <br> <div> Funeral Poems by Anonymous</div> <br> <div> <b><u>After-Glow</u></b></div> <div> I�d like the memory of me to be a happy one.</div> <div> I�d like to leave an after glow of smiles when life is done.</div> <div> I�d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways,</div> <div> Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days.</div> <div> I�d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun</div> <div> Here�s to happy memories � I leave when life is done</div> <br> <br> <div> <b><u>Up Lifted</u></b></div> <br> <div> I could not stay another day</div> <div> To laugh, to love, to work, to play.</div> <div> Tasks left undone must stay that way</div> <div> I found that peace at the close of day.</div> <br> <div> If my parting has left a void</div> <div> Then fill it with remembered joy.</div> <div> A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss</div> <div> Oh yes, these things I too will miss.</div> <br> <div> Be not burdened with times of sorrow</div> <div> I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.</div> <div> My life�s been full, I savored much</div> <div> Good friends, good times, a loved one�s touch.</div> <br> <br> <div> <b><u>Oldie but Goodie</u></b></div> <div> Laugh, and the world laughs with you,</div> <div> Weep, and you weep alone,</div> <div> For sad old earth must borrow it�s mirth,</div> <div> But has trouble enough of it�s own.</div> <br> <br> <div> <b><u>Miss me, but let me go</u></b></div> <br> <div> When I come to the end of the road</div> <div> And the sun has set for me</div> <div> I want no rites in a gloom filled room</div> <div> Why cry for a soul set free</div> <br> <div> Miss me a little - but not too long</div> <div> And not with your head bowed low</div> <div> Remember the joy that we once shared</div> <div> Miss me - but let me go.</div> <br> <div> For this is a journey that we must all take</div> <div> And each must go alone</div> <div> It's all a part of the Master's plan</div> <div> A step on the road to home</div> <br> <div> When you are lonely, and sick of heart</div> <div> Go to the friends we know</div> <div> And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds</div> <div> Miss me - but let me go</div> <br> <br> <div> <a href="../jazzfuneral-sub/my_pictuary.html" target="_top" title="My Pictuary">Next  Page</a></div> <br> <br> </td> </tr></table></body>