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    The Matrix Of Death IV: Homesickness Of The Dead
    The Matrix Of Death IV: Homesickness Of The Dead
    The Matrix Of Death IV: Homesickness Of The Dead
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    The Matrix Of Death IV: Homesickness Of The Dead

    By Lex Taylor

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    The Matrix Of Death is a deep descent into death feelings. Also into other kind of feelings more fit for persons above the nominal six feet.

    Volume Four -- Homesickness Of The Dead

    Poised and peaceful poems on serenity, calmness, relaxation and nostalgia.

    Did you ever wonder about life beyond the grave? Now it's your time to get a glimpse into the other side!

    Allow Lex Taylor take you on a journey to the beyond without the necessity of, well? dying.

    The biggest concatenation of dark and bizarre views, thoughts and feelings about death in poetic form, by a single author, to date!

    This saga will relax you with more than two-hundred poems on death, featuring all sort of eldritch emotions and situations, presented in many different traditional poetic forms.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLex Taylor
    Release dateMay 30, 2017
    ISBN9781370101214
    The Matrix Of Death IV: Homesickness Of The Dead
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    Lex Taylor

    I'm thirty-five years old and I've been writing poetry since my teens. I was an active member of the ACiD computer art collective for four years and have been designing, publishing and writing in electronic form for around eighteen years.

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      The Matrix Of Death IV - Lex Taylor

      The Matrix Of Death

      Volume Four

      of the homonymous series

      The Matrix Of Death

      Volume Four — Homesickness Of The Dead

      LEX TAYLOR

      Copyright © 2004-2011 by Lex Taylor

      All rights kept.

      Cover Photo By Jessica Syrena

      Designed by Lex Taylor

      www.thematrixofdeath.com

      NOTICE

      Reaching or not the ideal of one’s teens in one’s early twenties would mean the difference between life and death for many a soul.

      I reached, and realized my ideals in my early twenties, But once heavenly components of that set of ideals were lost, I knew pain an poetry were coming.

      Many of the poems which follow tried to recapture Feelings of longing for the place one calls home.

      Homesickness Of The Dead

      Take the dead with the living.

      Popular warping contractions,

      On the glowering streets outside...

      Without shyness, or feeling defied,

      Exerting poise of inaction.

      Godlike privacy confides,

      Popular warping contractions,

      On the glowering streets outside...

      A smug detached moderation,

      And mind quietness utterly wide,

      For the irenic souls which hide,

      Not fitting in any faction.

      Popular warping contractions,

      On the glowering streets outside.

      The awesome augurs of the dead redound,

      The pieces are umpteen, charming and doting,

      To interpret these dead omens that surround,

      These synergic symbols... I am chiseling,

      Theirs is

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