Last Verse Poem by Juergen Wagner

Last Verse

Rating: 5.0


The can is empty
Soon the sky
will water the garden

Last Verse
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: death
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
In Japan people are used to write a last poem, when they sense death:

I thought to live
Two centuries, or three-
Yet here comes death
To me, a child
Just eight-five years old.

H. Ikkei (d.1843)
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Tilly Boesche-zacharow 13 July 2016

The tears of tthis olden one, oh GOD in heaven will begun. I know, only you can iunderstand it stay with me a littlr bit.

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