Beginning to End

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A face once smooth
and creamy as alabaster
is now lined and sallow
speckled with liver spots
and moles screaming to be
free of the skin
The thick, dark hair
highlighting burnt sienna
becomes thinning and white
Once tight skin was stretched
over strong muscular limbs
Now, no longer defying gravity
it hangs in crepe folds
as the body loses the density of bone
Soon the cycle will end
Ashes to ashes


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Kim from Writing in North Norfolk, is hosting Tuesday Poetics at D'Verse.  She has prompted us with writing a poem about 'endings'.

Published by Christine Bolton

I have been writing poetry since I was a child and it has helped in the good times and bad times. I am always looking within to find the answers to life's problems and to write thought-provoking poetry and prose. Thanks for checking it out. Christine

23 thoughts on “Beginning to End”

  4. I like the way you contrast youth and age in your ‘Beginning to End’ poem, Christine, right to the punchline, ‘ashes to ashes’, a phrase we know so well, but don’t hear that often. You’ve created vivid images, such as ‘moles screaming to be free of the skin’ and skin hanging in crepe folds’. Strange to think we all end up like that.

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    1. I remember a dermatologist once told me that the mall is just something that is dying to exit the body. That’s why they get larger and larger. Unless of course it’s cancerous and then you need to get rid of it quick. 😬

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