To Death

There are 72-deaths, and God said, "Pick one,"? and so he did, "To Death,"? was its name: its eyes were sleepy, droopy. He then wondered what the other 71-deaths were like?

Many were among the dark hills, stone-forests below...! Waters full of flames, undrinkable!

Stagnant, he slowly glided down its gap, to its warm end, from its glaciers of cold sweat, from flesh, and found death to be a friend (for a while anyways); no dread, just calm, sweet dancing in the dark" ?here all the longing desires became beautifully-mad, with pounding.

As time passed, people trampled the dark path. Then he learned a prayer" ?one most everyone heard, but only a few said (it echoed throughout the halls and tunnels of death, it sounded something like this:

"Use us again, if only but for an hour...!"?

Here in this death, one of 72, man is intact, like a pacing panther. This is the new life, and the best of the best, of death.

#1318 4/17/06

Elements of Poetry: there are many elements in poetry, I've written on a few before, I normally do not make it a habit to do so, I'd rather swim in with the piranhas, and let the skeletons do the narrating on what is and is not poetry. But here is how I see a few things, take it with a altering view please, nothing is written in stone here:

Free Verse without fixed meter or rhyme but using formal elements of pattern verse (e.g. assonance, alliteration); it is a popular way to write poetry, everyone who has published contemporary poetry seems to have used it in one way or another.

Suspense in poetry can be created by what is called lines enjambed; that is, a clause or sentence can run over into the following line (I have used it many of times). Thus a kind of mystery is forced, or expressed, emphasized: as used here in the first sentence of my poem, "To Death"?.