Advice on dying

Monday 10th November 2008 9:26 pm

Advice on dying, yes, that’s what I want

No, I’m not jetting off to Switzerland

Assisted suicide is not my point

But how to go gentle to Neverland

Where night is white, when my time is at hand

I want to see that white light (not tonight!)

Mirages, smoke, fireflies, flickering flame, and

Pure colours white, orange, black, then clear light

Forever, as I dissolve from your sight

‘I’ returns to concepts the living hunt

While eighty winds, fire, water and the land

Move as one in life’s separatenesses, quite

Unable to unsee their fragile bond

Dreaming of life preserved in grains of sand

www.antonionioni.com

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Andy N

Sun 16th Nov 2008 10:44

Speaking as a former zen buddisht, m8 - this scans pretty good to me!

Rodney Wood

Fri 14th Nov 2008 13:02

Like the poem and the photo!

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Thu 13th Nov 2008 21:05

Hi, Antonio !

This is thought provoking poem. Yes it is! You have given so many options to one soul. How to die? I am sure no one can really tell how the end will come to any of us. It is quite unknown. Love the picture of the Eiffel. My sister live there not to far from that place. Loved the visit in Paris and will be flying there some day again.
Thank you for sharing your lovely writing.

Also THANK YOU for the comment on my last vivid poem, the Amazon Rainforest.'
Appreciate your time to read and commenting.

Thank you,
Zuzanna

shoeless

Thu 13th Nov 2008 06:15

hi antonionioni (is that enough oni )

I have read this a good few times since you posted it. the poem and the following comment by carol ( hi carol )which shows up the startling differences in folks' hopes and beliefs , i was reassured and uplifted by

'dreaming of life preserved in grains of sand'

carol falaki

Tue 11th Nov 2008 00:02

Hi Antonioni, this is deep and thought provoking.
I like it very much. Nothing lasts forever and
I hope there is more to life than those grains of sand.

Jeff Dawson

Mon 10th Nov 2008 21:57

Don't do it!!

Hi A - good to see you back mate, great stuff and thanx for coming to Bands 4 Babies was a great night!

cheers MC Jeffarama!

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