Monody’s poetry is originally a Greek song of lamentation. Monody or trenodia is a poem in which one person laments the death of another. The poem has many stanzas and there is no particular syllable count or rhyme scheme to follow in this style of poetry as one will find in sonnet form. This is from the heart of a person in that person’s particular form of expression at that time. Also, a threnody is a poetic song or lamentation hymn performed as a memorial. One of the famous trenodio poems in its form of musical expression, which narrates grief for the dead or lament used for instrumental compositions, is Penderecki’s trenodio for the victims of Hiroshima. It is a musical composition for fifty-two string instruments, composed in 1960 by Krzysztof Penderecki. The following is an interpretation of a combined monody – threnody poetic form:

dear mother who lives in my heart

Inside my soul is a torn broken heart

She dwells there and for me she will never leave

My dear mother has gone home to stay.

She has joined her Lord; This I will always pray.

Lifted by a host of angels to heaven where she is welcomed

Her life as a messenger of God on earth has flourished

I will never forget how he taught me to kneel down and pray.

Repeating and visualizing God in my own special way

While she rests on high she is also in my heart

His scent of praise reminds me of twinkling stars for starters.

I know that she is always here with me every day.

She is missed, but I know in my heart that she will stay.

My God bless you mother always for being yours

Elevating his name to others, much praise you gave

Knowing the way this life is and its impermanence

One day we will be together again reaping His abundance