Some Intimations of Mortality

More celebrities depart;

Some revered, close to my heart

With others who have made their name

In sport or Eighties TV game!

 

Screen idols, rock stars, commentators,

Humorous, late-night debaters

Men of State - at a vast age;

All exodus from the world stage.

 

To name but few: there’s Berlusconi

PM unique - the one-and-only

Whom Italy mourns in Milan

Known as the “Bunga Bunga” man!

 

Then Sixties’ actress Glenda J.

Whose roles in films blew us away

“Women in Love” to Hampstead seat:

Her volte-face is hard to beat!

 

Although their memory stays green

The flow is constant, it would seem

 As the sands run out as we advance;

A dizzy thought - long life is chance …

(c) Poet in the woods 2023

P.M. Silvio Berlusconi  (1936 - June 12th, 2023)

Actress Glenda Jackson (1936 - June 13th, 2023)