Don’t Forget to Write
Put a pen in my hand
before you lower the casket
and plant me like a kiss goodbye
Put a pen in my hand
so I can write Dear John letters
to everything on earth I have loved
And if the afterlife is boring
I can take up writing fiction
I can work on crossword puzzles
and doodles to pass the time
________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
June 17th, 2022 9:32 am
Oh yes, what a wonderful idea! I think you speak for us all.
June 17th, 2022 10:14 am
Oh, Colleen, I love this! Now I want to be buried with a pen in MY hand, too. I’ll link to this in my Sunday Salon post this week. Thanks for the great idea and the smile it put on my face.
June 17th, 2022 11:37 am
Thanks, Bonnie. It’s meant to be humorous. It came about when I was at the Little River Poetry Festival recently and was looking at my hand holding a pen and thought ‘I should be buried with a pen in my hand,’ a good thought to jump off from.
June 17th, 2022 11:42 am
I love your take on the afterlife. Put a pen in my hand too. Maybe we can collaborate!
June 17th, 2022 2:11 pm
My plans include cremation, but I’d think it was awesome if someone turned my ashes into a fancy pen.
June 17th, 2022 3:04 pm
Now I’m imagining an afterlife full of haunting fiction! Oh, the stories a spirit could pen…
Love this one.
June 18th, 2022 12:34 am
Ha….I’ll settle for being a page turner for JS Bach in the after life…like your humour.
June 18th, 2022 12:48 am
That’s quite a thought… writing Dear John letters is fine but the puzzles.. oh yeah!
June 18th, 2022 9:42 am
The poem is gentle and funny. I love it!
June 18th, 2022 9:18 pm
A great idea! I want paints, too.
June 20th, 2022 7:51 pm
I love this so much. “Plant me like a kiss goodbye” and the writing continues even after you’re gone.