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Zen & the Art of the Bow of Death...
by Ed Matlack → (All Poetry by Ed Matlack)
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Arrow shot quite straight


Finds its mark through the heart,


Steel points penetrate skulls,


Brains on the ground,


On the battlefield no longer a sound…


 


Years of training,


Since childhood learning the fight,


Statistics, war & death,


No one wins nor do they lose…


 


Blind to the time,


Of death within rhyme,


The ladder to the gods we climb,


From the heavens the bells of death do chime…


© e * 7/23/06


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 Reviews of "Zen & the Art of the Bow of Death..."
Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on July 24, 2006
Dangerous sport me thinks...even when cupido plays with it!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by john zimmerman
Reviewed on July 24, 2006
did you know the ancient greeks didnot consider thh bow a proper weapon to kill a man with. bad form

the english massed arcchers who were able to launch 1 arrow every 5 to six seconds into a 6' circle 150 yds away. Overlap a thousand such circles a you have a whole new definition of killing zone.

good write
j+

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on July 24, 2006
I agree with Kate; very different for you, but very good.

Reviewed by Susan de Vegter
Reviewed on July 24, 2006
War bever changes...conquer and kill...death and maiming hearts and bodies...so sad.
Susan

Reviewed by J. Allen Wilson
Reviewed on July 23, 2006
I enjoyed your approach to this Ed. It carries with it a message that has a spiritual undercurrent… But for me…well I ain’t gonna study war no more.

Reviewed by Kate Clifford (Reader)
Reviewed on July 23, 2006
A very different kind of write for you. I like it :-)


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