"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
Eckhart Tolle

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

"alone" carry on tuesday #57

This week our prompt is the title and opening line of a William Butler Yeats’s poem




"When you are old and grey and full of sleep”

will I leave you to die in an armchair

decayed

without love

flesh falling from your bones

will I let your bones crumble

and blow away

trying not to catch them

stand and watch without

Sorrow

Pity

Shame

Would I do that to you?

8 comments:

  1. Julie you are absolutely correct!
    I found to be a very strange opening to spring off from. I just went in a strange direction.
    Pamela

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  2. "flesh falling from your bones
    will I let your bones crumble
    and blow away"

    Such strong, well-written images, Pamela.
    - Dina

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  3. No, I bet you wouldn't because you are brave enough to think about it but there are millions that would and millions that do. Nice work. your words poke the mind and wake it up. Please yell them from the highest tower.

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  4. Dina thanks and I enjoyed your love poem to your
    husband!
    Pamela

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  5. gs batty
    you are right I never would even consider doing something like that
    But there are many people who do!
    Pamela

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  6. You wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy.

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