* Guardian Guest Death Poem by Terence George Craddock

death visited me
the other night
beckoned from starry
portal of another life
evaporating all cares wares
of this flesh strife life
with beckoning finger enticing
like an astute icy knife...
meteorol struck spine kidneys
with child resolve to fight
ice needle injected
numb self-will
with renewed invigorated
prophetic sight...

night reaper
not yet ready to reap
astrol planes screen'd
servant soul's scarlet weep
Death visited me suddenly
late the other mundane night
guardian guest or spectral ghost
is this a holy or unholy host?
fundamentalist Christians
would not
prepare a toast
except
with ritualistic santified
mass as pagan boast?


Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)
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