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Life and Death and Time
Contributed by
HelixGreg
on
Wednesday, 1st October 2003 @ 02:05:00 PM in AEST
Topic:
DarkPoetry
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Life is a lovely girl
Who dances on silver feet;
Leaves in a windy swirl.
Flowers perfumed sweet.
Life is a man in his prime,
Life is the wolf on the hill,
Her song as the moon does climb,
The deer that is her kill.
Time is a sword which divides
All that we have and are
From all that we were, and hides
What we shall see afar.
Time is a silver stag
That we are constrained to chase.
Time is a grey dead hag
Who once had a lovely face.
Death is a table spread
For no man’s appetite;
Unlit candles that shed
Darkness instead of light.
Death is a dark-eyed queen
Who holds all men in sway.
Death is a hunter keen
Who never loses his prey.
Life and Death and Time:
These are the three we meet
No matter how high we climb,
No matter how strong our seat.
These are the bounds we are set
When first we take a breath,
And further we cannot get
Than Life and Time and Death.
Life is the gift we’d choose,
If ever we had a choice;
Time is the the thing we use,
Thinking we have a voice;
Death is the fate we’d shun,
That comes to every man:
These three that are really one,
Start and finish and span.
Life is a silver sword,
Time is the hilt we hold
In fealty to that lord
Who cannot be foresold.
Death is the edge of the blade
(Though sometimes the point will do)
Whose stroke cannot be stayed,
Or aim put out of true.
Copyright ©
HelixGreg
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2003-10-01 14:05:00]
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Re: Life and Death and Time
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by jaeann on
Wednesday, 1st October 2003 @ 03:12:48 PM AEST
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| death is a table spread for no man's appetite.....yes indeed!!! awesome piece |
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Re: Life and Death and Time
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by ladyfawn on
Wednesday, 1st October 2003 @ 03:47:37 PM AEST
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| excellent write, i really enjoyed this poem from beginning to finish, hugs n' love nessa |
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Re: Life and Death and Time
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by Jenni_Kalicharan on
Wednesday, 1st October 2003 @ 05:25:06 PM AEST
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Welcome to YPDC, Gregg... I loved the metaphors used here... Good write..
Jenni |
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Re: Life and Death and Time
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by Saira on
Wednesday, 1st October 2003 @ 05:30:44 PM AEST
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Quite a creative write...each line is powerful. Good work!
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