Death Cafe profile for Michael Ashby
Location: United Kingdom
http://www.thefuneralpoem.com/
About Michael Ashby:
I‘m a 65 year old poet from the “Grandfather Rhyming School of Poetry” dwelling on England’s south west Jurassic coast.
I write and freely disseminate my global death, funeral and remembrance poems on the World Wide Web, hoping to bring comfort at the saddest of times on this most sensitive of subjects.
What brings you to Death Cafe?
The opportunity to contribute to your wonderful work in facilitating and growing the public conversation on dying, death and beyond.
I believe it is very empowering to comfortably come to terms with your mortality on planet Earth.
What would you like your legacy to be?
My poems, and hoping that they continue to resonate with those in need of comfort.
“THE BEACH OF HUMAN ANGUISH”
Every second of every day
A tsunami of mortal loss
Crashes blindly onto
The beach of human anguish
Driven by howls of unimaginable pain
To be eventually calmed by
The huge cornerstones of family
Loved ones, friends… and
For some, religious beliefs
My poems are the smallest
Grain of sand on that beach
But even they glisten from
A teardrop now and again
(Michael Ashby)
Thoughts for sharing:
Lines from my poems…
GOLDEN MOMENTS
“…The precious seconds, minutes and hours, The priceless weeks, months and years…”
MY ECO DEATH
“…An angelic smile.... a machine's last pips
A sigh of contentment.... escaping my lips
Peace.... Oh blessed peace
Peace.... at last”
I AM NOT GONE,
“While you remember with me”
My poem that gets closest to what I believe happens at death…
MY LIGHT WILL SHINE FOREVER
Synapses, lightening forks
Neural nets cast aglow
My being is no longer earthed
As across space I flow
Eternally charged with immortal life
I feel the pull of people past
My light will shine forever
And for you will everlast
(Michael Ashby)
Contact Michael Ashby
Michael Ashby's posts on the Death Cafe website
New Blog post: DRINKING IN MY “LONG CUP OF TEA” POEM AT SIDMOUTH’S 1st DEATH CAFE
Posted by Michael Ashby on Jan. 15, 2016, 6:48 a.m. 1 comment
Greetings, dear reader and fellow traveller on “spaceship earth”, and the warmest of welcomes to you from my first blog post on THE DEATH CAFÉ.
Hooray! The Death Café has finally reached my hometown of Sidmouth on England’s south west Jurassic coast. Through my local paper I learnt that Aly Dickinson and Adrian Eden are holding a Death Café at Coastal Coffee Lounge on Thursday January 21st from 6pm to 8pm, so I ...