Archive for August, 2006

Death Poem

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

do you know…

do you know someone who is dead

like i do,like i do

well, don’t worry about their head

death ain’t no big thing you see

it ain’t no big thing to me

like i see it

it doesn’t matter how you die

or when you die

it’s just the way that you die

don’t wanna die of old age!

i wanna die doing one thing i love to do!

that would be alright by me

that would be alright by me

 

death means nothing to me

i’ve seen it from the day i was young little baby

and it’s the way that you die

and it’s the how hard you try

like my dear,like my dear,like my dear…

by Perry Farrell

Death Trap

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Don’t fall too deep
Into the death trap
There is nothing to gain
And everything to lose

You get attached
To people you don’t know
Only to get hurt
For their stupid show

Your mind gets boggled
With thoughts that aren’t there
Your heart gets crushed
Just so they can snicker

The internet is my trap
Just like many others
Do not fall too deep
Into your death trap

by Gary R. Hess

I have a Rendezvous with Death

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air—
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.

It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath—
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.

God knows ’twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear . . .
But I’ve a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.

Alan Seeger

I have a Rendezvous with Death

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air—
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.

It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath—
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.

God knows ’twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear . . .
But I’ve a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.

Alan Seeger

EUTHANASIA (Ariels Cross)

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Sipping herbal tea,I sensed your tension
You ask if I would pray with you this time
I knew this be the night you ask The Angel
To descend upon your sleep;Lift this cross
If I only had one wish I’d take your place
I shivered when you whispered;It was time
But true to my commitment to your plea
Tonight my love I’ll engage your destiny
I must confess bemoaning for my soul
Mercy’s queer temperance–Saint or sadist
And if my passion angers our Redeemer
May silence and lament be my penance
I’ve been told Iwill suffer for your peace
From the poison that harbored in yourbrain
Paralytic dawns,and turbid,manic dusks
Your terror was A cross I could not bare
Now my hands grasp filthy bars of steel
Much time to muse the ethics of justice
In hindsight—I would do it all again.

By Frank James Ryan , Jr.

A Funeral Poem on the Death of C.E.

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Through airy roads he wings his instant flight
To purer regions of celestial light;
Enlarg’d he sees unnumber’d systems roll,
Beneath him sees the universal whole,
Planets on planets run their destin’d round,
And circling wonders fill the vast profound.
Th’ ethereal now, and now th’ empyreal skies
With growing splendors strike his wond’ring eyes:
The angels view him with delight unknown,
Press his soft hand, and seat him on his throne;
Then smilling thus: "To this divine abode,
"The seat of saints, of seraphs, and of God,
"Thrice welcome thou." The raptur’d babe replies,
"Thanks to my God, who snatch’d me to the skies,
"E’er vice triumphant had possess’d my heart,
"E’er yet the tempter had beguil’d my heart,
"E’er yet on sin’s base actions I was bent,
"E’er yet I knew temptation’s dire intent;
"E’er yet the lash for horrid crimes I felt,
"E’er vanity had led my way to guilt,
"But, soon arriv’d at my celestial goal,
"Full glories rush on my expanding soul."
Joyful he spoke: exulting cherubs round
Clapt their glad wings, the heav’nly vaults resound.
Say, parents, why this unavailing moan?
Why heave your pensive bosoms with the groan?
To Charles, the happy subject of my song,
A brighter world, and nobler strains belong.
Say would you tear him from the realms above

By thoughtless wishes, and prepost’rous love?
Doth his felicity increase your pain?
Or could you welcome to this world again
The heir of bliss? with a superior air
Methinks he answers with a smile severe,
"Thrones and dominions cannot tempt me there."

But still you cry, "Can we the sigh forbear,
"And still and still must we not pour the tear?
"Our only hope, more dear than vital breath,
"Twelve moons revolv’d, becomes the prey of death;

"Delightful infant, nightly visions give
"Thee to our arms, and we with joy receive,
"We fain would clasp the Phantom to our breast,
"The Phantom flies, and leaves the soul unblest."

To yon bright regions let your faith ascend,
Prepare to join your dearest infant friend
In pleasures without measure, without end.

Phillis Wheatley

Death Wants More Death

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

death wants more death, and its webs are full:
I remember my father’s garage, how child-like
I would brush the corpses of flies
from the windows they thought were escape-
their sticky, ugly, vibrant bodies
shouting like dumb crazy dogs against the glass
only to spin and flit
in that second larger than hell or heaven
onto the edge of the ledge,
and then the spider from his dank hole
nervous and exposed
the puff of body swelling
hanging there
not really quite knowing,
and then knowing-
something sending it down its string,
the wet web,
toward the weak shield of buzzing,
the pulsing;
a last desperate moving hair-leg
there against the glass
there alive in the sun,
spun in white;
and almost like love:
the closing over,
the first hushed spider-sucking:
filling its sack
upon this thing that lived;
crouching there upon its back
drawing its certain blood
as the world goes by outside
and my temples scream
and I hurl the broom against them:
the spider dull with spider-anger
still thinking of its prey
and waving an amazed broken leg;
the fly very still,
a dirty speck stranded to straw;
I shake the killer loose
and he walks lame and peeved
towards some dark corner
but I intercept his dawdling
his crawling like some broken hero,
and the straws smash his legs
now waving
above his head
and looking
looking for the enemy
and somewhat valiant,
dying without apparent pain
simply crawling backward
piece by piece
leaving nothing there
until at last the red gut sack
splashes
its secrets,
and I run child-like
with God’s anger a step behind,
back to simple sunlight,
wondering
as the world goes by
with curled smile
if anyone else
saw or sensed my crime