Japanese death poem

Setting up a thread so people can post them for contemplation and expression outside the workshop.

 

Thank you for creating this forum Aaron, I will most certainly be posting here a lot of the time.

 

a robin's song
as winter releases me
into a black dream

haiku death poem ENJOY !!! inspired by Aaron DC thanks buddy

 

Silent sword withdraws
Blood patters like children's steps
Memories like rain

 

Wow!

 

Love this one Aaron man!

 

this is so much fun!

 

I spoke my first death poem out loud to my friend tonight and it was the first time I had done so.
Pretty intense.

 

really lol what did that person think about your poem?

 

May I play also?

A little twist on the death motif:


Sheathed within bleached bone
an ancient immortal waits
for the alchemist

 

This is very personal to me. A few years ago, a person very close to me died suddenly of cancer. We didn't even know it existed until about two months before she passed. These were a few word I wrote as a memory and to gain some personal perspective on the situation:


Travel on,
Traveller, traveling.