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Poem by Donald Benson Blanding
Epitaph
Do not carve on stone or wood,
"He was honest" or "He was good."
Write in smoke on a passing breeze
Seven words… and the words are these,
Telling all that a volume could,
"He lived, he laughed and… he understood."
Donald Benson Blanding
Donald Benson Blanding's other poems:- Aloha Oe
- Torch Ginger
- Fabric
- Song of the Seven Senses
- Somehow
Poems of the other poets with the same name:
Samuel Coleridge Epitaph ("Stop, Christian passer-by : Stop, child of God") Percy Shelley Epitaph ("These are two friends whose lives were undivided") 1822Abraham Cowley Epitaph ("Underneath this marble stone") Katherine Philips Epitaph ("What on Earth deserves our trust?") Thomas Hardy Epitaph ("I never cared for Life: Life cared for me") Edna Millay Epitaph ("Heap not on this mound") Elinor Wylie Epitaph ("For this she starred her eyes with salt") Walter Scott Epitaph ("AMID these aisles, where once his precepts showed") Robert Southey Epitaph ("HERE, in the fruitful vales of Somerset") George Byron Epitaph ("Posterity will ne’er survey") January 2, 1820Dorothy Parker Epitaph ("The first time I died, I walked my ways") Emily Dickinson Epitaph ("Step lightly on this narrow spot!")
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