TRYING TO FIND A PIECE OF POETRY

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PhilipMeeks

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Aug 8, 2017
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Hello dear Stephen King fans

I've been advised to post this here by the Stephen King Facebook page.

I recently lost a very very important friend. She was like my other mother and helped shape my entire life. ( we both shared a love for Stephen King amongst many other things. Gin too. Nobody could get me drunk like Greta did)

I'm reading at her funeral and the folk at the FB page think someone here may be able to help.

Many many moons ago I read a poem......and it was shared by Mr King himself. It had been written by his mother in law and it was a poem about death. It was amazing. In it it said something fantastic about burying her in orange so the colour will always stay in the earth as a memory of who she was.

I read it at a time when I still believed my elders were invincible .....so I didn't take a copy or stash it away on my computer.

I know I didn't make this up......and I guess you won't ever find a better and sharper hive mind than here. So if anyone can recall this poem too and point me to where I may find it I WOULD BE SO GRATEFUL

xx
 

Neesy

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Excavation By Sarah Jane White Spruce

Bury me in orange.
I want to lie there bright and gay
Beneath my four, or slightly more,
Feet of clay.
When other men in other times
Disinter my grave
I would they’d find
A twist or two of orange twine
In my dank cave
And pick it up, a brilliant thread
Against the whitened bones of one long dead.
When someone picks my scrap of orange ravel
I hope he comprehends I gaily travel.
 

GNTLGNT

The idiot is IN
Jun 15, 2007
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Hello dear Stephen King fans

I've been advised to post this here by the Stephen King Facebook page.

I recently lost a very very important friend. She was like my other mother and helped shape my entire life. ( we both shared a love for Stephen King amongst many other things. Gin too. Nobody could get me drunk like Greta did)

I'm reading at her funeral and the folk at the FB page think someone here may be able to help.

Many many moons ago I read a poem......and it was shared by Mr King himself. It had been written by his mother in law and it was a poem about death. It was amazing. In it it said something fantastic about burying her in orange so the colour will always stay in the earth as a memory of who she was.

I read it at a time when I still believed my elders were invincible .....so I didn't take a copy or stash it away on my computer.

I know I didn't make this up......and I guess you won't ever find a better and sharper hive mind than here. So if anyone can recall this poem too and point me to where I may find it I WOULD BE SO GRATEFUL

xx
...welcome Phillip, and I share in your loss.....good friends like that are a rare gift....
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