Has Not the Music Greaved (In Loving Memory of Janice Froland)

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Teen Poetry #8

Has Not the Music Greaved (In Loving Memory of Janice Froland)

Earl Robertson
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since 2008-01-21

Posts 753
BC, Canada

0 posted 2008-11-15 03:15 PM

Please don't compliment me on this poem. This was written for a woman who did the costumes for all the plays at my school. She collapsed last night and died in hospital.

How could this come upon us?
The tragedy is clear
Where is the joyous chorus?
Why is our friend not here?

Your passion was a beacon
Your art a kind of light
Your life an endless legacy
Your kindness ever bright

Where do the smiles come from?
When the actors are bereaved
Are they masks or faces?
Has not the music grieved?

Always an empty canvass
Which you always helped to fill
Always a busy kindness
Another gesture of good will

Wish we knew you better
Wish again to call you friend
Always call you mentor
Never knew that it could end

Where do the smiles come from?
When the actors are bereaved
Are they masks or faces?
Has not the music grieved?

Let this be your legacy
The smiles as they leave
Let them not see the actors
Nor the music greave

For you are with the angels
Of that I have no doubt
Yet all of us now wonder
How we’ll ever do without

Where do the smiles come from?
When the actors are bereaved
Are they masks or faces?
Has not the music grieved?

My melancholy is purely my own

RevengeIsMine
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since 2006-07-08

Posts 820
Australia

1 posted 2008-11-15 06:34 PM

A Beautiful Tribute To What Sounds To Be A Beautiful Lady!!....

May The Angel's Carry Her Home!!

R.I.P

Falling rain

Member Elite

since 2008-01-31

Posts 2178
Small town, Illinois

2 posted 2008-11-15 08:46 PM

This is beautiful in a most tragic way. You have an amazing power with words that this poem just blew me away.. I hope you and your fellow mates are doing okay... May she Rest In Peace.

-Zach

I'D RATHER BE ANYTHING BUT ORDINARY!!!! XP

Earl Robertson
Senior Member

since 2008-01-21

Posts 753
BC, Canada

3 posted 2008-11-16 01:12 PM

Thanks for the support guys. I really appreciate it.

My melancholy is purely my own

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