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Our Last Awakening: Poems For Living In The Face Of Death

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'Bring us, Lord our God,
at our last awakening,
into the house and gate of heaven...'

John Donne's prayer speaks of the hope and promise of a life with God that embraces us beyond death as well as during our time on earth. However, people of faith are not exempt from fears, fantasies and speculation, nor from the normal sequence of grief reactions that afflict bereaved human beings.
Poetry, whether or not it is consciously religious, can help.

In this selection of poems and thoughtful commenta...