I also discovered he studied at Eaton and he was a promising orchstral musician and that he was married at point not sure if he had children though!?, I met John Bragg(my old friend) when he came to my hometown of Thurso(north Scotland) for the surf which was a passion of his and he was looking for some surfboards and i sold him a couple of spares i had and from that point i befriended him. I was filled in on a bit more of his history from my friends who made it to the funeral and spoke with his father and they found out that his mother committed suicide when he was young and he tried to follow her by attempting to hang himself at the age of about ten, he had a scar on his neck which i always wondered about but never asked him and all these years later i have found out.
I recently found out that this poem was read at a friends funeral who passed away Oct 2003 but unfortunately i was unable to attend but many of my other friends who lived in the area made it. I just hope this helps anyone looking for this, and also, I hope someone out there finds this poem as moving and touching as I.Ī 9/11 Memorial featuring the same poem (with a download-able audio file)Ī Collection of Inspirational Stories and Poems There are 2 versions, I like parts of both of them. Since the poem is believed to be in the public domain,I reprinting it here. Why do I like this? Do I want it read at my funeral? I being morbid? What’s up with all the poetry? Because. So I’ve provided the links and hopefully you can copy them to your hard drive in case the sites vanish someday. Lucky for you though, other folks don’t mind at all. I didn’t write them, and I don’t feel right cutting and pasting someone’s work into mine. Too badazon doesn’t offer a sample of the song to listen to, I’d really like to hear it!Īs usual, I not re-purposing the poems here.
#DO NOT STAND AT MY GRAVE AND WEEP POEM READING TV#
“The Prayer” was also featured at the funeral for Dixon’s wife on “Alias” Episode 20: Countdown (and probably on a lot of other TV shows too). Turns out, the song from “Third Watch” that uses this poem is called “The Prayer” by Lizzie West from her “Holy Road: Freedom Songs” CD. has a wonderful essay detailing the history of this poem. The poem is “ Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep” and so far I’ve found three versions – one by Mary Frye, her revision, and one by Wilbur Skeels (also on the Mary Frye link previous). After a good bit of Google-ing, here is what I’ve learned: So I took it upon myself to find out more. Then it crossed my mind that there might be others looking for this, or if not, others who would appreciate the poem and the song. Sure there are still many others bouncing around my head, but this one has been there since I was a kid! She posted a link to the poem used in the song and when I read it, I knew my search was finally over!Įver have something in the back of your mind, nagging you for years, that you need resolved? Finally, I have got rid of one. As I was going through my usual morning reads, I quite randomly happened upon a post at Tank’s Grrl where she mentioned that episode, the pretty song and the poem that inspired the song.
I learned this later since I don’t watch “Third Watch.” But lots of other people do and were touched by that music and, more importantly, the poem. 6th 2003 episode “My Opening Farewell”), a song was featured that had many lines in it that were similar to the poem I remembered. Then a few weeks ago, on the 2nd episode of “Third Watch” (Oct. Even if I had, there is little chance it would have survived up to now. But I didn’t think to cut it out and always wished I had. Well, part of it: “do not stand at my grave and weep, for I not there.” I thought that was a beautiful line, and the entire poem was great. I don’t recall the show, but I always remembered the poem. Someone wrote in asking about a poem they heard read on a TV show at a character’s funeral. When I was a kid, maybe thirteen, I remember reading the “Question and Answer” section of the local newspaper’s weekly TV Guide (not the “real” TV Guide, but that’s what we called it anyway).
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