Saturday, June 23, 2012

Poets & Poems Part XV: Are the Dead Dead? Two Poems and a Sonnet

Sonnet for Old Age

I will be deep, buried below the ground

Asleep, a ghoul in a shadowy grave Like you, beside your table turning gray!

Oh mother, your eyes never did regret; Ah, yes, me, me! We may be happy yet,

Travel afar, but not yet, to-day.

When you grew old, youd often say:

Youll get old like me, some far-off day! (I feel like this, this very evening).

When I was young, to my son Id say, Cody: with your busy mind, keep forefront,

Now listen to me he called dad! Hell be held long in remembering.

#1527 21/10/2006

The Bird-gods

Before the making of man
The Bird-gods rule the lands:
Ere, love and war took place then!
The Hawks and the Eagles raced:
Clawful, fluttered, muttered:
They cast (somehow) to each other:
An evil magical spell, then
Embracing they fell.

Then man appeared and found fire,
But somehow, it was wiped clean:
The memory of the Bird-gods,
From mans brain.

#1528 21/10/2006

Are the Dead, Dead?

Are not the dead, dead?
It is not strange to reach me
I am at present, reaching out of the dark
To see you (or out of the light)
To see you
Look around
Fear not
I am dead.
But I wrote this for you
Tis truethe world
Is mad
Go on
You will join me soon.

Note: This poem was found after ten years, sitting in the back of one of my old books, thought Id bring it to life. 8/1996 (#1529); at this time, the time I wrote this, I was very ill, not knowing if my system (body) was ever going to recover from a number of atrophies. But it did somewhat.

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Author:: Dennis Siluk
Keywords:: Political
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