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    Death Sting
    Death Sting
    Death Sting
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    Death Sting

    By Alexander Tennant

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    death is an important subject. whether you are wealthy poor or somewhere in between. i urge you not to be morbid over death, but to respect the fact that at some point you like me will be gone. the world is a stage and everyone of us has a part to play. however current thinking in contemporary capitalist societies discourages us to dwell on our own death. in part i go along with that as after all it is important to get on with the blueprint that is the life mapped out for each of us and to stay focussed.
    all i am attempting to achieve by writing these verses is to share with you my take on death in all its guises. for you to develop qualities of courage, steadfastness,and the desire not to be afraid of where that takes you. let death make you become stronger and appreciate your life more. all the verses cover stuff you can relate to and yes it is important to explore the dark underbelly of our natures. we cannot escape such distressing issues as death by human cruelty and selfishness for an understanding of how powerful an emotion that is. you will relate to how these dangerous emotions if unchecked are played out when you read wife beater, and child cruelty. the devastating loss of a child which stays with you forever is portayed in child tragedy. death as a pitiless sense of despair and domination by one powerful group over a weaker other is seen for what it is in circus maximus, when the christians as a minor sect in ancient rome were sacrificed by successive waves of emperors on the alter of political convenience to deflect attention from their own inadequacies.
    So it goes on and on, even to the stage where in my poem betrayal i explore the sense of cruel abandonment by life itself. either way i want you to take something away as a sense of reassurance that death itself has a place in our youth obsessed culture and to feel stronger for it.
    if you like my free e-book soul on fire please do buy either death sting or shared experiences. this shows a commitment to what i stand for as a poet of conscience. i will leave that up to you the reader.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlexander Tennant
    Release dateJul 14, 2013
    ISBN9781301218004
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      Death Sting - Alexander Tennant

      Introduction

      Death Sting

      This is a subject of great importance as it concerns all of us. Most of us if we are honest shy away from this subject due to conditioning by our culture which in a lot of cases discourages any preoccupation with this subject. I can understand why, because it is such a tough issue to get your head round. Since the hip 1960’s there was an increasing emphasis on youth over maturity. That is an indisputable fact which is in my view beyond challenge. The consequence of that view widely bandied about is that today a substantial number of the population believe we will live forever in this world and never like the immortal Peter Pan ever grow old.

      There is nothing wrong with being young footloose and fancy free. Of course not! But there is everything wrong with becoming obsessed with maintaining one’s youth at all costs irrespective of the cost to your body by cosmetic surgery and indeed to your pocket. No where do you see a good PR case being made in favour of death. I wonder why those of us who bought into the throwaway replace one car or computer with another mindset still think we can cheat death by insisting we can as of right with the power of science bring about cell regeneration to rebuild worn out body parts in perpetuity. At some point each of us will die. How and in what form is down to each of us and God whether you believe that spiritual philosophy or not. To tackle such a taboo subject in our selfish capitalist high speed society requires courage and a strong belief in the importance of the purpose of the message. Though we need to get on with daily living we also need a balance to our lives which encompasses a healthy non - obsessional attitude towards death. One good creative medium to use is poetry, which lends itself well as a literary device for the achievement of just that. It takes the embarrassment out of death as

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