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Old Age Is Upon Me

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old age is upon me

 

my life is a haunted house

 

at night

 

family and friends appear

 

fade away when the cock crows

 

the evil eye is blind

 

years gone by are

 

amputated limbs

 

the past is phantom  pain

 

and joy

 

sins and regrets hide in dark corners

 

ready to pounce

 

garlic is useless

 

laughter from other times

 

resounds from empty rooms

 

I paint the door posts blue

 

death lingers in the doorway

 

hesitating to enter

 

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

 

Chuck Edelson was born in Chicago on Oct. 8th  1929.   His childhood was overshadowed by the Great Depression and World War II.  His first loves were books, movies and music.  A high school teacher encouraged him to develop latent art skills.  After a short an unsatisfying university experience, driven by news of the holocaust of the Jews in Europe,  he left the U.S,A for a pioneering life in the new state of Israel where he  and his family farmed the land.  Along with his work as a farmer he continued his creative side painting and sculpting mainly themes from the bible and the holocaust.  Now retired from farm work he still sculpts, draws and of late has begun to write poetry after few and far between attempts in the past.

 

 

 

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