For Those Who Fear Death ( Sonnet )

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Open Poetry #13

For Those Who Fear Death ( Sonnet )

Tony Abbot
Member

since 2000-11-18

Posts 209
North Wales,UK

0 posted 2001-05-02 07:51 PM

Some wise men say this life we bear is hell,
The spirit trapped, encased in flesh and bone,
No key permitted to this mortal cell,
Until the reaper's scythe makes us his own.
And yet we dread the day that we must die,
To face what lies beyond this troubled land,
But this is where perdition's fires lie,
They purge us all,but we misunderstand.
Enmeshed in strife and struggle, we get lost
Amidst confusion, chained to states of mind,
Mistaking life for all there is,the cost
Is we succumb to fears that can bind.
Perspective comes beyond this realm of pain,
With death's release, at last we rend our chains.

'Humankind cannot bear too much reality' T.S.Eliot

KokoStewartKoomoa
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since 2000-12-04

Posts 580
Waikiki, Hawaii

1 posted 2001-05-02 08:02 PM

This is a very thought evoking topic and thanks for your expression on it in this piece. God bless!

Aloha with warmest regards, Koko
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Irish Rose
Member Patricius

since 2000-04-06

Posts 10263

2 posted 2001-05-02 08:11 PM

very Poe, very good. I'm impressed.

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee

Tony Abbot
Member

since 2000-11-18

Posts 209
North Wales,UK

3 posted 2001-05-03 07:22 PM

Thank you both for replying.

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