Epigram After Philip Larkin

Like Dante poets' seek the bliss making love;

their neighbors, philistines, are merely glad to f**k.

The poet's curve becomes an arc toward Heaven above;

the neighbors are not discontented to be stuck

in downward spirals straining toward a stinking muck.

 

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Up above is where heaven is

Up above is where heaven is until the earth moves. :) slc


 

 

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Yes we do get glimpses of it

Yes we do get glimpses of it sometimes.


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Its Metaphorical

Greater than we are, something beyond - the thing about dying is that you will die and know, not merely believe. - slc :D slc


 

 

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Faith has removed the fear of

Faith has removed the fear of death from me, and now my only fear, for that event, is that I will say or do something awkward.


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