What will be remembered?

Post by **Doreen Peri** » November 19th, 2009, 1:13 am

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." - Cato The Elder

You ask the burning questions,
the why-am-I, who-am-I, as all ask,
the intention to clarify purpose
and reason, our seasons all too brief,
our chief obligation felt to document
the presence of our breath ...

I can attest that there are no
valid answers, no one can know whether
what they have shown of their soul will
take hold to live on its own after
the final exhale.

But there's no way we will have failed
if we have had love to share and scatter.
The rest of it doesn't even matter.
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dp.11.18.09

Post by **Artguy** » November 19th, 2009, 2:08 pm

Ya how to be remembered..something I have thought about...it scares my ego that my life's work will end up scattered to the 4 winds...or in a dusty attic...but then that's just my ego speaking...An Artist friend of mine has said "if they wouldn't feed me when I was alive they won't eat from me after I'm dead" He has instructed that all of his work be burned....

Post by **Doreen Peri** » November 19th, 2009, 7:00 pm

I know. Someone will inherit my computer and initialize the disk, delete all the files so they can use it to store their own files and zappo! There goes my poetry. That's why I was thinking that self publishing really is a good idea. Or at least printing everything out. But then they'll just toss it in the trash so who cares, really? My artwork will be store-in-the-attic-for-posterity item and eventually trashed also. LOL! What an outlook we have, huh?

And my gravestone will say, "I told you I was sick."

I have a poem I wrote called "Burn my poetry." Your friend and must think alike.

Thanks for reading, Kurt!

Post by **judih** » November 19th, 2009, 11:09 pm

hey, if there's a Will involved,
i want your artwork doreen
(i won't be able to read words much longer)
but i'll always love and be enlivened by your beautiful artwork

as for Kurt, i just want the caribou - send me a photo and i'll be fine

i wish i could paint half the stuff i see
painting is immortality - the act, if not the product

Post by **Doreen Peri** » November 22nd, 2009, 12:25 am

aww... judih, you're a sweetheart... just the fact that anybody even likes them makes me happy!

what the heck do you mean by "i won't be able to read words much longer"???

Post by **the mingo** » November 22nd, 2009, 1:10 am

Yeah. what do you mean?

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