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Rondeau: A Lifetime isn't Enough

Poetry

This collection of my poems, consists of Rondeaux that I have written over the years. This form is difficult, and you will see how I mature in writing the the Rondeaux as the years pass. Love, peace, and freedom, Olan

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Rondeau: While Death does Walk

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by CottonJones

by CottonJones

Rondeau: While Death does Walk

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While death does walk to crawl my skin,

Has death my father come to sin,

Or make my heart delete, and when

Its thub-dub halts and ceases beat,

My body floats above again.

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The curtain breaks, is death so thin,

And life is lost this morning when

I woke and lived, I did not greet

While death does walk.

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Is death my dread, or's death a win?

Ascends upon my breast and then

To touch my heart, and does deplete

My force, my body flesh and meat.

Whose burden cares for flesh and skin,

While death does walk.

(Artwork by Olan Smith, 2013. The artwork is an imitation of Picasso's piece, titled "Death Mask." He produced this work using crayon, and it was the last of his self portraits that he drew in 1973, the year of his death.) My work above is totally freehand using Psykopaint, an online painting platform.)