As usual, you have amazing insights into life and death. I'm really still not sure how you do it, or exactly what you're doing, but it sure works. This seems to me to be one of those poems where the message is not welcome, but is inevitably true...yet she did lay the lily down, and whether it blew away in the wind is only of so much consequence...it's sad, but it makes you think.

It's strange...I usually have favorite lines in most people's poems, but I just love how the whole thing fits together, rather than one line. I looked for one, but they all meld so nicely, I can't do it. Turning simple words into something beautiful through only rhyme, rhythm, and phrase, without flowery additions, is a gift. Kudos. :)

Ooh, I really like this. Your rhyming is very old time-y (yeah, I suck at describing things) and it really gives the poem a wonderful mood. All of the sensory details were wonderful. Nice job!

very inspiring... did this really happen? the connection between life and death is very iminant and the scenery couldnt be a better implication on the subject. its as if the dead were alive and when we think about the past, although uncomfortable at times, life seems to come together and sing a song of peace. Very well done, you deserve 5 stars. *