Put My Ashes In A Coffee Can

Eileen Clark

Bring my ashes home in a coffee can                                                                                          

I'm not particular about which brand                                                                                                

It can be Folgers or even Maxwell House                                                                                

Just don't bury me next to my ex spouse

                                                                                                                                                                                                               Spend my insurance money on a big clay pot

Mix my ashes in with dirt and ‎Miracle grow

Then plant the flowers called Forget-Me-Nots

Every summer I'll put on a dazzling show

     

Author Eileen Clark
                                                                                                                                                                                                          

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  • Thomas W Case

    Very funny. Less expensive than an urn. lol

    • Eileen Clark

      Hi, thank you Thomas. 🙂

    • Teddy.15

      LOL the perfect way to go. And to think those forget me nots will forever grow. 😂 wonderful.

      • Eileen Clark

        Thank you Teddy, 15 for reading and commenting.

      • Soman Ragavan

        My comments on the poem "Put my ashes in a coffee can” by Eileen Clark
        “Just don't bury me next to my ex spouse”
        This shows that humans can difficultly forgive or forget permanently bad experiences. We have suffered so much from that relationship in our lifetime that we don’t even want to be buried in the SAME grave. Or, even then there will be battles. Here, even “next” to that guy’s grave is refused
 A coffee can will do perfectly for the ashes

        Flowers called “forget-me-nots” are a sweet, fantastic way to point to remembrance

        You will flower and bloom even after your death. You will bloom even from your ASHES, for even death will not be the end of you. Your legacies will live on. They will do, since you are a poet. Poets are immortal.
        "(.....) Poets are immortal, says at the very beginning James Burty David. For him, we must not think that the imaginary is disorderly, for even in this apparent disorder, there is a structured language." "De la difficulté à faire rimer poésie et identité." "WEEK-END" newspaper, Mauritius 6 July, 1997, (page 33).

        “(On GAUTHIER). In a world in which everything is impermanent, the poet, by rearranging reality into art, can create something that will have more permanent value. ...... Art can thus provide the poet with a solace for his mortality while he is alive and the hope of immortality in death. (
)” "TWELVE FRENCH POETS. 1820-1900. AN ANTHOLOGY OF 19TH CENTURY FRENCH POETRY." London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1957. (Third impression, 1959). (With an Introduction and Notes by Douglas ParmĂ©e). (Pages xiii to lvi). Full acknowledgements are made to the authors, publishers and rights-holders.
        From my poem “A disappearing act” :
        “The interval might last any length of time :
        Some might wish it long, some might not ;
        With the depart’d life, untied be the knot :
        The reunion shalt birth some terrific rhyme

”
        Reunion, here, is about burying both in the same grave or side by side

        Soman Ragavan. 22 October, 2023. //
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      • Soman Ragavan

        My further comments on the poem "Put my ashes in a coffee can” by Eileen Clark
        Thomas W Case says on this poem : “Very funny. Less expensive than an urn. Lol”
        After your death, expenses from your wealth will not matter. Any money or wealth left will go to others, anyway. After your death, it should not be a question of money. Indeed, you should arrange for all your money to be spent rather than be given to those who pestered you during your life. A flower vase is definitely better than an urn. The urn just sits there. It is sealed. It contains memories. In contrast, the flowering in the vase will be a beautiful scene, although you yourself won’t be here to see it. Like I say, don’t leave anything to them fiends
 Soman Ragavan. 22 October, 2023. //
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        • Eileen Clark

          Hi  again, the poem was just having a little fun, I have written many fun poems. In reality,  cremation and no expensive urn is the best way to go. Why should funeral parlors make money off my death when they gave me no money to help with my living expenses.

          • Soman Ragavan


            I note your points. My writings still stand good
 Anyway, the choice of “forget-me-nots” flowers is a “coup de maütre,” --- a master stroke. It is one flower that is tied to remembrance. Soman Ragavan. 23 October, 2023. //
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          • orchidee

            Me too - I hardly ever drink coffee, so I won't get it mixed up with a tea caddy! lol. Or I might have an old tea chest instead. Doh!

            • Eileen Clark

              Hi, I drink instinct coffee now, I'm old and don't have time to wait for my coffee to percolate.
              Thank you for your nice comment. 🙂

            • rhmn_7

              Not every ending has to be only sad, some can be funny and humorous like this 🙂

              • Eileen Clark

                Hello! Someone that understands, excellent and thank you.

              • jarcher54

                I laughed so hard it hurt... thank you!

                • Eileen Clark

                  Hello jarcher54, thank you, I'm happy you enjoyed it, you made my day. 🙂



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