Sunday, October 19, 2014

764 - Post-Mortem


Three Word Wednesday requires participants
to use the three words of the week in a composition.
The words this week were: gifted, intense and rot.


Post-Mortem

When, at last, the veil is lifted
On the stewardship we’ve shown,
When the rot is all dissected,
When the true neglect is known,
The inquest 
Will attest:

“Connected but intensely unaware.

To them, a paradise was gifted,
But they didn’t seem to care."
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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014
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23 comments:

  1. intriguing so more interesting...!

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  2. Hannelie (via FB)October 19, 2014

    The veil is lifted or the curtain has fall?
    I love the last part! Well done (again) Cosmo.

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  3. Some of us care deeply; sadly there are too few

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  4. Why humanity is intent to destroy ourselves is beyond my comprehension.. Paradise was that moment when we wanted something else.

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  5. yes indeed, very much so sadly.

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  6. Humanity has such a momentous past it is sad that the consequences of our actions are so difficult to envisage except by those that have such a small voice.

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  7. we should always cherish the gift of life

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  8. Yes, for many that will be so.

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  9. So many centuries of errors and attempts at loving restitution can be reduced to such a short post-mortum. I see it. I enjoy your means of delivering this nutshell/bombshell. May your poem travel far.

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  10. The perfect epitaph. Sigh. Well said, Cosmo.

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  11. life should be cherished as should nature,

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  12. Great environmental poem and so true of so many.

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  13. Sigh! ...Such is life !! Sad...but, true!

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  14. Bravo! This is so well spoken, a timely message which so many ignore.

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  15. In your face, powerful and true...excellent!

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  16. What a sad indictment this would be....

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  17. True, sad, and eye-opening all at once. How terrible for us to not be thankful for what we have and to mishandle it.

    On a side note: I really like how you have numbered all of your poems. I wish I would have done something similar.

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  18. Sadly... Someday may be!

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