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(2.) Second poem
Eternal Is Your Dark Toll, I Have Songs Yet To Be Sung
Death is a vulture, its sharp talons dripping black and red
Rampages in all cultures, appetite very well fed
Noiseless it oft glides, even into healthiest people's beds
Nobody from its touch hides, as within Fate's path it treads!
O'death seek not this mortal soul, nor this body too young
Eternal is thy dark toll, I have songs yet to be sung!
Death in repose, I dare thee to walk surface of the sun
This dare I chose, as its heat may toast thy blackened buns
Such humor I send thy way, and with it no clever guile
Write I this today, hoping postpone thy visit a while!
O'death seek not this mortal soul, nor this body too young
Eternal is thy dark toll, I have songs yet to be sung!
If these words stay not thy hand, nor touch thy cold, frosted heart
I pray heart to withstand, needless worries on my sad part
So come as you are as you may, tis' but fated release
Bring steaks I'll pay, furnish even the pan and the grease!
O'death seek not this mortal soul, nor this body too young
Eternal is thy dark toll, I have songs yet to be sung!
Robert J. Lindley,
Rhyme, ( A Conversation With Fate And Its Black Handed Ally )
Honoring Hopkins
Note" The primary Hopkins poems that inspired these two poems, shown below,
(1.) "I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
(2.) "Moonless darkness stands between" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
(3.) "Carrion Comfort" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
(4.) " God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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(5.) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gerard-manley-hopkins
(6.) https://poets.org/poet/gerard-manley-hopkins