Death Light Verse Poems

An astronomer in Central Park
gazed at the starry sky.
How will it end, he asked the dark?
How will the universe die?
And as cosmology revolved, in his...

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Simultaneity

Of life and death

A story of not two..

A story because

Words are stories

Implying separation..

The story pretends

To express that which

Cannot be expressed..

Including these words...

Pretending...
...

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“Now, now,” said the priest to an anxious lady
nearing death: “Of course you’re going to heaven.
There will, however, be a temporary rest stop –
a little...

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being watched
by eyes over there
over there
where the eyes are not

their ethereal glare
nefarious
unseen, ready
like puckered lips

this eyeless wraith
with lidless eyes
nowhere, peering
beyond their death

there are eyes staring
that...

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throw my shoes away
and my panties too
no one wants them used
when death comes creeping through

throw out my furniture
but keep my dogs
the cat is gone
there are...

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steering blatant revelries, ghouls engaged to death
chomping down streetlight openings in bitter stone
bow walled yew tree drifters, steps of many feet in
shallow parade to pew,...

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Asked what most they feared
Death or Taxes, Americans answered
Death, without fear or comment. 
Think they were told: Death occurs
once, taxes are an annual event.

...

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I rummage through a box
of old photographs. A lady’s image
holds my eye: I hold her up to 
light filtering through a dingy window.

The edges are...

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It's a long time ago 
that I flew high and thought
that’s like a carrion crow
flying over a deserted plateau
could bring its prey so much woe.

Once...

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At last, Mr. J Bugman is now a retired Judge-man.

For many years he has punished many, spared few.

His verdicts never alter even if there is...

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Seemingly

Imagination

Creates stories

Over and under 

A story appearing..

Evidence of something

New creeps in..

These are seeds of a

Perennial search for

Completion.. unease

Over what seems

Happening......

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Later this month I'll be seventy-three.
Thus this gift of longevity.
I seldom feel old and am told I don't look it
but that one-way ticket, I have...

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Life and death

Are not two..

The story of these  

Finds a timeline..

Start and stop..

The separation

Necessary for 

A story of life......

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Some daysI feel it's time to move and
live by the sea, especially when the ghosts of
Altoona are haunting me..
Many cities in Pa., so rich in...

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A gravestone is the last 
official document a person 
will attach his name to. 
And though it takes place 
after the fact, it still has...

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