ELEGY FOR NOEL TUNKS (ARTIST)

John O'Dal
Author: John O'Dal
Word Count: 78
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ELEGY FOR NOEL TUNKS (ARTIST)

A tribute to a brilliant artist who died too young.

A little thing for a brilliant artist struck down
young with Alzheimer’s disease

Things I Don’t Understand….......

Evil priests
Two headed beasts

Hunters of fish
A prayed for wish

How to dance
A bishop’s manse

Caged parrots
Ladies with tarots

Some country tunes
All the runes

The cycle of life
A burning wife

The Holocaust
Goethe’s Faust

The migration of birds
Les Murray’s words

How dogs fret
Over your death

The Gordian knot
Why the artist forgot

  • catherine walker

    catherine walker

    fabulous…well done ..it’s great!

  • John O'Dal replied

    Many thanks Catherine.

  • mmargot

    mmargot

    Lucky to have had you as a friend…
    My sympathy.

    sorry I meant to comment at once, but was wool gathering

  • John O'Dal replied

    You are kind. Wool gathering? Does that make you a closet Hippy?

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