Find here some links to pages containing words, poems and invocations which may be useful to back up your ideas or to use in lieu of religious ceremonial words you don’t believe in.<\/p>\n
Some words for\u00a0funerals, weddings, or naming ceremonies<\/p>\n
A thinker of pure thoughts, a speaker of brave words,
\na doer of generous deeds has reached the silent haven
\nthat all the dead have reached,
\nand where the voyage of every life must end; and we,
\nhis friends, who even now are hastening after him,
\nare met to do the last kind acts that man may do for man\u2014
\nto tell his virtues and to lay with tenderness
\nand tears his ashes in the sacred place of rest and peace.<\/p>\n
If I should die and leave you here a while
\nBe not like others, sore undone, who keep
\nLong vigil by the silent dust and weep
\nFor my sake turn to life and smile
\nNerving thy heart and trembling hand to do
\nSomething to comfort weaker hearts than thine
\nComplete these dear unfinished tasks of mine
\nAnd I perchance may therein comfort you<\/p>\n
Do not stand at my grave and weep
\nI am not there
\nI do not sleep
\nI am a thousand winds that blow
\nI am the diamond glints on snow
\nI am the sunlight on ripened grain
\nI am the gentle autumn’s rain
\nWhen you awaken in the morning’s hush
\nI am the swift uplifting rush
\nOf quiet birds in circled flight
\nI am the soft stars that shine at night
\nDo not stand at my grave and cry
\nI am not there
\nI did not die<\/p>\n
For each of us will come a Spring
\nWe’re destined not to see;
\nWith fragrant flowers and new-mown grass
\nAnd subtle scented breeze.<\/p>\n
And yet somehow we will be there
\nAt least in loved ones’ minds;
\nIn what we’ve built, in what we’ve dreamt,
\nIn all we’ve left behind.<\/p>\n
if there are any heavens my mother
\nwill (all by herself) have
\none. It will not be a pansy
\nheaven nor
\na fragile heaven of lilies-of-
\nthe-valley but
\nit will be a heaven of blackred roses.
\nmy father will be (deep like a rose
\ntall like a rose)
\nstanding near my
\nswaying over her
\n(silent)
\nwith eyes that are really petals and see
\nnothing with the face of a
\npoet really which
\nis a flower and not a face
\nwith
\nhands
\nwhich whisper
\nthis is my beloved my
\n(suddenly in sunlight
\nHe will bow,
\nand the whole garden will bow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Find here some links to pages containing words, poems and invocations which may be useful to back up your ideas or to use in lieu of religious ceremonial words you don’t believe in. Poems suitable for humanist\u00a0ceremonies Some words for\u00a0funerals, weddings, or naming ceremonies Funeral helper Poetry Foundation for funerals Non Religious Wedding readings Variety of wedding\u00a0readings Inspirational ceremonies naming poems This is the Silent Haven\u00a0by Robert G. Ingersoll A thinker of pure thoughts, a speaker of brave words, a doer of generous deeds has reached the silent haven that all the dead have reached, and where the voyage of every life must end; andRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":910,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oxfordhumanists.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/975"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oxfordhumanists.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oxfordhumanists.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oxfordhumanists.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oxfordhumanists.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/oxfordhumanists.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137048,"href":"http:\/\/oxfordhumanists.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/975\/revisions\/137048"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oxfordhumanists.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oxfordhumanists.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}