FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: DEAD DAYS Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words dead and/or day, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on November 15th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Dead Days will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, November 16th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Eli Goitein


Any body who does not believe

death won't

one day overcome him

is due for a message

one day he will receive

EVERY BODY DIES


Every leaf off a tree

bird fallen from the sky

any motorpsycho madman

headed for a crash

any Jihad soldier suicide

bound to fatal convictions

Any body suffering

wounded deep inside

EVERY BODY DIES


Every breathing creature will naturally

thrust forward into living

make a way past the dust

tho there be a disappointed few

hold to a different view

dissent from what's on offer

and opt for an early exit

but for all of them it's all the same

EVERY BODY DIES


No need to wonder

has it forever been so

millions / no billions of years ago

We come alive in our time

go our way

complete the rhyme

from spiral of birth

to the winding sheet dropped into

earth

EVERY BODY DIES


I'm not trying

to convince or confuse

each one of us will have to choose

make use of what happens along the way

no afterlife / heaven and hell

what we create / the story

we live to tell and then it's over

EVERY BODY DIES


P.S. Any body who does not believe... 


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