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Cremation Becoming

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

Imagining possibilities portends endless beginnings. (Image by mymodernmet.com)

Monday, March 8, 2021


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Cremation Becoming

 


The urn is tipped
Scattered ash enjoins
Jet stream
Jetsam
Flotsam
Atop the winds and currents
Nature's gathering
Knowing not yet
The next evolution of life's decay

Possibility awakens
This consciousness beyond our own
This departure from one actuality
Into the reformation of another
Molecular iteration begun decades earlier
Now roaming carefree among other airborne particles
Innocent stowaways enfolded in winged flights
Or ocean saturated drifting
Bobbing patiently
Awaiting new beginnings

As the journey continues
Feathers
Seaweed
Plastic cups and bottles
Provide passage
Shore ward
Skyward
Forward

A measureless journey this
Where matter exists forever
Where ash continues as yesterday's index
Referring to tomorrow's pages

Scattered ashes
Once of flesh and blood
Now returning to the vortex of cosmic chance
Where fresh finger-paints of infancy
Become infinity's next masterpiece

To mourn or not to mourn

Omniscience winks

 

 



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Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on March 9, 2021
We think of ashes as our essence. But when we are cremated, we lose most of our being to gases that would be liquid if not heated to the point of escaping into the atmosphere.

While the fishes may benefit from eating the miniature creatures that feed on ashes floating in the brine, ashes floating in the air in the form of gases are only breathed in and out of the lungs seeking only sustenance and oxygen. So the weight of our being, all that we carry other than the half pound or less of ashes, is floating around in the atmosphere.

Creating ghosts?

Ron

Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on March 9, 2021
fine lines, cremation is my choice


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