Thesaurus: dying (see also decease)
Habitats wither | orchids give up the ghost |
blue whales breathe their last | coral reefs perish |
polar bears are passing away | the Western black rhino is no more |
singing clouds of passenger pigeons departed |
Yangtze River dolphins have disappeared |
the three-tooth caddisfly is gone |
I look up from the page.
Above all the words for dying
we have scrawled in smoke and tar,
a blackbird is dropping notes of honey
as if nothing matters more
than this one song, this now.
Jane Pearn
