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BOLD DEATH

"BOLD DEATH"
Margaret Ann Waddicor 22nd January 2011.
Joe and Dennis Go made me think about death too.

Bold death,
you stride through consciousness,
to take our spirits with you,
to a place where peacefulness
and silence reigns supreme;

we dream of you as desperate
and sad,
as heavy handed, brash,
as silky as a ghost at dawn,
when moisture leaves the land
and grasses stand up tall
all decked with dazzling dew;

there are you lurking
in the shadowed wood,
the horses charging time,
like clockwork figures,
never still;

the cogs of passing years
and all our fears are true,
we shall be there to die,
one day,
but not today;

we think it due,
when time has made its span,
a span that's long and grand,
and when this life is shortened
by a blow
of fate,

its cause too late to turn,
they churn our thoughts
and scream their messages of pain
and anguish
dire,

as we prepare the fire
to make the pyre
that takes our souls on high,
and down below.

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Sigh.

"But not today"... poignant words uttered by the gladiator Juba in the film *Gladiator*

I've often seen life in the ring, we are warriors, gladiators. The crowd cheers!

~A

I didn't know the Gladiators used that,
but that would make mine more known
as a reference maybe, to some.

Yes they cheer regardless! Love Ann.

"The image of yourself which you see in a mirror Is dead,
but the reflection of the moon on water, lives." Kenzan.

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...as I said Joe and ...Go; their comments and others I just wrote today on reading them.

Its like the bit my mother wanted read out at her funeral it was by Dylan Thomas
and now I can't find it...it ended "but just for now." I loved that ending leaving one
expectant for the dead person rising once again from their sleep.

And that's what I wished for my mother too, and she is with me now.
Love to you and thank you my Shirley.

"The image of yourself which you see in a mirror Is dead,
but the reflection of the moon on water, lives." Kenzan.

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There's one good thing about death --- it inspired you to write this awesome piece! :)

____________________________________________________________________
Regards,
Dennis

"Death smiles on us all. All a man can do is smile back." ~ Maximus Decimus Meridius

your way of painting in with flourish
and dabbing soft the colour
its rich texture and subject matter
is well handled

Thank You

'Tis you Steven with the eye to wake up,
sensitive to the colours and shapes that I paint,
that allows you to see such in what I write,
and I thank you for joining me in the dance of poetry
that defies space and time,

and enters into the realms of magic,
however banal or common place,
realistic or mundane the beginnings,
you and I can see beyond them
into that magical world, and revel in it
as if we were on some potent 'trip.'
Don't you think?

Love from your friend Ann.

"The image of yourself which you see in a mirror Is dead,
but the reflection of the moon on water, lives." Kenzan.

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