05-08-2013, 02:33 AM
Death and Spring
Wherever a flower blooms
A motionless dead body looms
A body a bulb to cast a dim light
Perhaps a soul took flight
Of life to move there was a dearth
Succor from within the earth
Corporeal corpses feed the animated bodies
This is the process of rotting
To sprout pale petals
Moved by ghastly pedals of rigid treadles
Pellucid tears of the bereaved filled with sobs and heaves
Mourning dew magnify the hue upon the verdant leaves
On these trees did humans impart life
Through their turmoil and their strife
As the dew the tear magnifies light
But tears prove some are torn from life
And the bereaved can bear the weight of soil
The dawning dirty burden of earthly toil
Not Part of the Poem:
Unfortunately Rothke beat me to the bunch using the pun of bulb as a light and a part of a plant, I would be much obliged to hear any reactions to this poem.
Wherever a flower blooms
A motionless dead body looms
A body a bulb to cast a dim light
Perhaps a soul took flight
Of life to move there was a dearth
Succor from within the earth
Corporeal corpses feed the animated bodies
This is the process of rotting
To sprout pale petals
Moved by ghastly pedals of rigid treadles
Pellucid tears of the bereaved filled with sobs and heaves
Mourning dew magnify the hue upon the verdant leaves
On these trees did humans impart life
Through their turmoil and their strife
As the dew the tear magnifies light
But tears prove some are torn from life
And the bereaved can bear the weight of soil
The dawning dirty burden of earthly toil
Not Part of the Poem:
Unfortunately Rothke beat me to the bunch using the pun of bulb as a light and a part of a plant, I would be much obliged to hear any reactions to this poem.