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MYTHOLOGIES death poem in Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online. Webmaster for this site is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness.
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To metabolize my death I need mythologies. Raw carrot will not do it on its own. A cloud aflame with burning angels, Numinous with pronouncements, Would be more of a life guide. My opera should be high drama, not diorama. The hollowness of the wind should speak to me, The sea preach. The elephants of midnight Should discourse with the rhythms of my heart. I need something harsher than handkerchiefs. An Aztec, a pyramid, a wedge. But I am nowhere near there yet. I am still marooned at the soft chocolate level, Technogeeking nerdly with computer, At ease in the decadent West. The true conceptual images of destruction — The mammoth ice plains, The cooling meteorite, The brown of the skull that speaks — Are not yet even shadows on the horizon. |
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