Voici les temps des assassins

Death is a flamboyant raconteur, isn’t he?

With an arsenal of anecdotes, told with panache,

glorified in the telling, yet the parable is still

perhaps just a contaminated, transitory memory.

 

It must take considerable acumen to recount

such epic tales, parables of zeitgeist, with such élan.

The lacuna between reality and remembrance,

(which gapes before me as a chasm) camouflages chaos.

 

Within the shadows, the realm of the mystical,

time is temporary, imaginary, but

it waits for each man. In the interim: life,

and any manner of demise, a choice dessert.

 

His stories have a luminous sheen, from the polishing

of the dull allegory into a brilliant, radiant boast:

I have killed, and will kill again;

No glory to be had for you and I.

 

Death is a lying b*****d; always was.

Soulful or soulless -

at least Hedda Gabler tried to die beautifully.

Voici les temps des assassins.

Reviews

[Larry Dyson]

would love to see you reference the lacuna differently..as the first definition since you are so elequently writing about writing...

"The lacuna between reality and remembrance (gapes before me as a chasm.)"
also.."perhaps just a contaminated(transitory?) memory."
you are so accomplished ..would you please do me a favor and rewrite this...you have a natural winner here... IMHO..

[Spookers]

To be honest, I had to get a dictionary to understand som e of the words, but I like the words you used. This poem is awesome

[wordaddict]

My favorite of yours so far,the last stanza set it off
Death is quite tricky,I'm just glad it didn't get me

By the way thanks for reading your the only one so far.Whats the best way to get readers here.Anyway sorry should of sent this in a message instead of posting it on your poem comments Sorry man

[Victoria PoetryBunny]

Nice vocabulary.

[Lilly Negoi]

bravo! *applause*. i've read this out loud, for the pleasure of it and to hear how words resonate against my mind. there's such a GREAT change of tone in the last stanza. and such a beautiful irony all the way prior to that!

[Meghan]

Your vocabulary always amazes me in your work! great piece :) thanks for sharing.

[Chris]

I came back again...just to appreciate the thoughts this one empowers behind my eyes...

Thanks Jeremy
Chris

[∂αʌ<..]

Allan Poe would have glowed over this while Ibsen would most certainly be the happiest!:P

i simply love this artwork! (it is an artwork, really!)
your french words coming up now and then just add the right touch of grandeur and majestic in your poem! its not complicated...just simple and up to the point! i really like your point of view over death! its rather a delicate concept, over which there is a panoply of opinions...but yours! whats better than this!! you made my day!

fabulous!

[KATHY SUE SILLS]

Such great vobcabulary that is woken into this well crafted piece! Nicely penned!

Love it, especially your use of the word Panache. It has been my experience that people use that word incorrectly.(Cyrano) I enjoyed how downplayed it was. It was because of that word that I was sucked into this lovely piece. The ending was the delicious cherry on top.
Thanks for sharing.