Poems and verses to scatter a loved one at sea
As you honor your loved one’s wishes to be cremated and scattered at sea, you may want close friends and family attending the scattering to read a poem or verse.
You may want to start the ceremony with something like: “The ceremony at sea for our beloved Mother is the perfect place to set her free,
we take comfort in knowing that he is finally home among his loved ones.”
He would then have each member of the family read the poem he had given them.
Some ideas are:
I won’t be alone
my consolation will come from the sea.
The stillness of the clam waves will gently pass
I will be as one with the sea.
When the sun sets on the blue ocean,
Remember me as I will always remember you.
As the sun rises… go live life as fully as possible
Apart… you and me… but a peace because I am free
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be comforted
My life ends here in peace with the sea.
The Lord has called me home and I am free.
to go in peace.
Do not mourn my death as I am now in the presence of the Glory of God,
His shining love is abundant and his promises are real.
I will wait for you here, dear ones, in the arms of Jesus and I will take care of you with him until you too come home.
Take comfort beloved ones.
“I will go the way of the open sea, to the Lands before you came, and the cool breeze of the ocean will blow from me, the memory of your name”
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A parable of immortality
I am standing on the shore of the sea.
A ship beside me unfurls its white sails to the morning breeze and heads out into the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch until it finally hangs like a speck of white cloud.
Right where the sea and the sky come to mingle.
Then someone says, “There he goes!”
gone where?
Gone from my sight, that’s all.
He is as big in mast, hull and yard as when he left my side.
And just as capable of getting your live cargo load to the destination.
Her diminutive size is on me, not her.
And just at the moment when someone next to me says: “There it goes”
There are other eyes watching her come
and their voices ready to resume the shouts of joy,
“Here she comes!”
By Henry Van Dyke
In closing, the dispersal at sea ceremony is all about saying goodbye and creating an everlasting memory of your loved one’s release. It’s up to you to decide what will help you and those in attendance better remember and celebrate that person’s life.