Showing posts with label death poems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death poems. Show all posts
17 July 2009
Vanishing
A scene from Blade Runner, a film directed by Ridley Scott (1982). Another personal favourite.
All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain
Time to die
Awaiting his death in 1827, Senryu wrote this death poem with strikingly similar wording:
Like dew drops
on a lotus leaf
I vanish
When my time runs up, my last words will hopefully not state the obvious. I want to live the time allotted to me, not die it. Perhaps something similar to the last words of general John Sedgwick before he died in battle:
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...
16 July 2009
Last wandering
Sick on a journey,
only my dreams will wander
these desolate moors.
A death poem is written when one feels his death acoming. The one posted here is by Matsuo Bashō. His last wandering. Even a horse arrested his eyes on that snowy morrow.
only my dreams will wander
these desolate moors.
A death poem is written when one feels his death acoming. The one posted here is by Matsuo Bashō. His last wandering. Even a horse arrested his eyes on that snowy morrow.
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