I would like to continue honoring the dead ones during this season of
introspection by posting a sonnet I wrote 18 years ago called "Message from
beyond
the Grave." Now that I have become familiar with Hellinger work, the sonnet
has a significance I never dreamt of when I first wrote it in 1987.
At the time I wrote a dozen or so pieces and collected them in a folio which
I called "Post-Existential Sonnets," because somehow, using the strict
Elizabethan rhyme form in iambic pentameter, I felt that whatever I wrote was
like
opening a portal to the realm of the dead. Now that I have represented the
dead ones in many constellations, I feel as if they want me to bring them out
to this group.
I have 9 online at this URL if you want to read any more of them
_http://members.tripod.com/~Steiner98/Sonnets/index.html_ ;
(http://members.tripod.com/~Steiner98/Sonnets/index.html)
I have begun to recite this particular sonnet at the opening of our
meditations and constellations to set the mood for working with the dead ones.
Please
feel free to use it in any of your constellation work. Recite it out loud
first and imagine the dead one speaking to you, then through you to the
others.
Feel the atmosphere in the room and judge whether it might be helpful for
your own FC work.
Thank you very much.
Thomas
MESSAGE FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE
My labor over life's enormous span
was interrupted by a sudden death.
I hope for people to recall what man
they knew before his last recorded breath.
I speak the language that I always spoke,
but not too loudly, more with feeling here.
I spend my time among the simple folk
I overlooked before. They still stand near.
I know the purpose and the meaning of my life!
I hover, ever watchful of your mood.
The light and darkness here reflect your strife.
I long to feed you with this special food!
Be seen and heard by all your dead! We live!
We walk the path with you, and we forgive.
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from "Post-Existential Sonnets" Folio I
c 1987 by Tom Mellett, Austin, Texas
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