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This death poetry selection is part of the Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online. The online poems include school poems, city poems, nature poems, war poems, cancer poems and assorted other poems.
Poems on death, poems on dying, and poems on the strangeness of living in a mortal world. A small contribution to the ars moriendi, the art of dying. Poetry written out of the experience of facing death, up close, very close, and personal. Very personal. Webmaster for this site is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness. |
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short poems |
school poems |
city poems |
nature poems |
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war poems |
cancer poems |
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other poems |
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Paperback Book or US $5 PDF file |
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• THE HAPPY PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICHES: playful poem. • BEING DEAD: death experience (how it feels to be dead). • THE BIG DOOR: dying (what it's like). • INFORMED CONSENT PROCEDURE FOR DEATH: informed consent procedure. • MYTHOLOGIES: death concepts. • THE EGOTIST DYING: self-satisfaction. • THE DEATH OF SADDAM HUSSEIN: Saddam Hussein: execution. • SADDAM HUSSEIN A MILLION YEARS FROM NOW": Saddam Hussein's historical significance. • KITES: nostaligia. • DEATH: death: personal annihilation. • THE IMMORTAL ELEPHANT: mortality. • COMING INTO HARBOUR: death of an old man, death of a grandfather. • THE DEATH OF BIRDS: death: how birds die. • GENGHIS LOTUS: attaining enlightenment, death: acceptance of, warlord in old age. |
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