We can close your eyes and pray that he will come back Or we can open your eyes and see all that he has left. You can shed tears that she is gone. So how did Harkins feel when he saw his words published on this most grave and ceremonial of state occasions? Mr Harkins said: “I laugh about it because death is not what it’s about. In a rare entrepreneurial fit, Harkins formed his own theatre company with a friend to direct and a young woman to play the female lead. “It was straight from the heart and when I think about it, I’m both proud and not proud. “There were 16 people in the audience. Beautiful remembrance poem, ideal for a funeral reading or eulogy. "Poetic Expressions is a proud supporter of Marie Curie whose Nurses provide free nursing care to cancer patients and those with other terminal illnesses in their own homes" Included by the Queen on the order of service for the Queen Mother’s funeral on Tuesday 9th April 2002, the poem ‘She Is Gone’ was credited to ‘Anon’. But I never got beyond Act 1, Scene 1.”. Doesn’t she mind being “on view” in his pictures? A short but uplifting funeral poem by famous Victorian poet Christina Rossetti, about saying goodbye to a loved one. I had no confidence.”. In the past three months, he has sold enough to come off benefits. He spent the rest of his time in his bedroom trying to write poems, plays and novels. THE mystery author of a poem which was read out at the Queen Mother’s funeral can now be revealed as a Cumbrian man who wrote it more than 20 years earlier when he was a young bakery worker. I was shocked. Following the Queen Mother’s Funeral both The BBC and The Times contacted Poetic Expressions but we were unable to help. Popular funeral poem based on a short verse by David Harkins. I wrote it about a girl I lusted after but she couldn’t stand the sight of me. THANKS and TAKE CARE. You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, “I was shocked. Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her Or you can be full of the love that you shared. He started in 1997 – “I just needed to express myself.”. Further Foot Note: News & Star 12/09/2002. Mr Harkins, 43, has since received a letter of thanks from the Prince of Wales. She was 16 and didn’t know me, but had seen her about and knocked on her door one evening in November 1981. “She’s a martyr to art.”. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST VISITED PAGES ON WWW.POETICEXPRESSIONS.CO.UK PLEASE ‘TELL A FRIEND’, MENTION THE SITE IN YOUR WORK, OR SEND A DONATION TO MARIE CURIE. My wife Jayne and I were reading the newspapers and there it was. PLEASE DO NOT FORGET MARIE CURIE http://www.justgiving.com/poeticexpressions. Today the News & Star can reveal that Silloth man David Harkins wrote the poem in 1981 while working at Robertson’s bakery in Durranhill, Carlisle. The Poetic Expressions Team At the time the poem was written, he was working at Robertson’s bakery, while living in Scalegate Road, Upperby. I wrote the Queen Mum’s funeral poem. Our hearts can be empty because we can't see him Or we can be full of the love we've shared. He was able to paint more when a period of ill-health forced him to give up work, and last year had a show at the library in Carlisle. A poem about love living on after death. As it turns out David Harkins had written the piece in the early eighties, though not as a funeral oration, but in homage to an unrequited love. His wife is his main sitter. You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back, Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left, Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her, Or you can be full of the love that you shared, You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday, You can remember her and only that she is gone, Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on, You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back. Rather than ask her out, I poured it all into poetry.”, Did he never tell his love? A short but uplifting funeral poem by famous Victorian poet Christina Rossetti, about saying goodbye to a loved one. They married in October and have been happily married since. A short funeral poem by Helen Lowrie Marshall about happy memories living on after a loved one has gone. She was his first real girlfriend, he says. Twenty years ago a shy, lovelorn Cumbrian baker, David Harkins, wrote a poem. Should you ever be interested in the power of the internet you need only type into any of the many search engines ‘You can shed tears that he is gone’ and you will find that poem, in its masculine form, in several places and all presumably originally found on www.poeticexpressions.co.uk . Pam, a one act play from 1987, was my last piece of work inspired by Anne. We did have the poem of that title on our site as from late 2001, but we had no idea at that time who had written it. It never ran. You can shed tears that she is gone or you can smile because she has lived. Beautiful funeral poem by Rabindranath Tagore, written from the perspective of someone at the end of their life. The reply from the Prince of Wales’s office continued: “I have no doubt that it will be reproduced on many occasions over the years to come. You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn back. Your heart can be empty because you can't see him. I’d say, ‘I’m going to get a flat.’ My mum would say, ‘And who’s going to make your bed then?’ And that would be that. Should you ever be interested in the power of the internet you need only type into any of the many search engines ‘You can shed tears that he is gone’ and you will find that poem, in its masculine form, in several places and all presumably originally found on www.poeticexpressions.co.uk.

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