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The Cold Embrace of Death

...Though the sun had begun bleeding in the West
With an explorer’s gait, I walked jumping over gutters
My track, flanked with knee high grass and nettles
Also, wild bushes of all kinds that grew in ...

Temporary Travellers

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                          Temporary Travellers
 
                   Men are all short-lived travellers
                      Of the illusive earthl...

CLEVER

...CLEVER

One likes to think oneself as clever
Always ironic, and with a wry grin
Yet the great leveller is often poetry
As it sorts the wheat from the chaff
And rhyme and metre can be a faff
Al...

Death the Leveller

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                                             Death the Leveller


                                    Icy are the ...

Our Great Leveller

...how earth measures unqualified success ~ survive global extinction

By
David Kavanagh...

Time and Time Again

...If anyone’s reading this poem, your somewhere in my past
       I’m in the future for these ‘right now' moments never last
         But still this is your present, such is the way time flows 
    ...

After Snow Melt

...AFTER  SNOW  MELT

Their burden shed, trees  now  svelte -
Hidden beauties in luxuriant fir mantles 
Stripped, sunning  in balm light.

Grass, spruce, stream,
Once  blank and touchless, 
Crow...

Covid 19: a Leveller

...COVID 19: A LEVELLER

Apocalypse! Armageddon! Ragnarok!
Deadly spread of  COVID 19
Caused by human misdeeds 
Confusion. disaster cover the land
Death now becomes a reigning language
Both the c...

Landing

...LANDING

Big Brother's eye
beyond the sky 
Saw it not sneak nigh, 
round valley and hill,
gripping necks at will;

No Global Hawk, Predator, 
Brigadier, Mirador,
nor fortress and tower high...

Corona Virus 3 Feet,6 Feet

...Have you heard
Of the ravaging virus?
That equal leveller;
That conforms everyone to the same corner
Some say it is the disease of the rich;
Some say it is for the poor,
Just like John 10:10
I...

Contagion

...Some suffering does not aspire to the Buddha’s kind

When the pound shop closes which is an ominous sign

Thanks God the jewellers continue to open their doors

Angry unwashed masses are diffic...

Death- the Event

...Prolonged illness
Doctor forewarned
‘Might prove fatal’
Family was prepared
“When time comes
Royal send-off
Matching elite status
Grand plans
Cavalcade of cars
Who’s who of society
Wearing ...

Leaving Alone

...I saw you from the distance ;
I saw you in my dream ;
You are the queen of my dream.
When I saw you in actual;
You are far and behind from me.

Consciousness run in search of you;
I race by yo...

Soldiers Play Cards Night and Day

...Every night a game of card is played,
    four suits fates fortell;
    for war is a great leveller
    for infantry boys in battle.
Soldiers double-dare gambling,
    day and night. All-in a ga...

After Life

...Death is a great leveller
A balm for all our ills,
Frees us from every sickness
Without a need for pills.

Old rivalries forgotten
Buried under the sun,
Enemies turn cherished friends
For the...

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