And Death………
Death, that old procrastinator,
hovers cold above man’s shoulder
like an impotent, impatient vulture,
stalks and slinks from a safe distance,
stalks, and stinks, distinguished bird of disgust,
connoisseur of carrions and cadavers;
knowing full well a Guardian Angel
can protect for only so long,
though anxious, Death bides like a hyena
who knows in famine there is no hunger
(the last bite of offal will tide him over);
Death, cognisant that he can tarry a bit longer,
like a caring undertaker,
waits on man to meet his maker,
macabre waiter in funeral parlour
who cares more for your tipping corpse,
loathsome corbeau one can well live without
serves and smiles with toothless lop-sided mouth.
And Death………
Death, that great grinning scavenger
of iniquitous inequalities,
Death drives a waste disposal truck
on irregular beats around the block
and refusing refuse rifled by dogs
scoops up, alike, vagrants and lords.
Copyright ©2000 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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