Clive James, Australian Broadcaster and Author, Dies Aged 80
Channel: Daily Insight
Date: 27/11/2019

Australian author, TV personality and poet, Clive James, has died in England aged 80. He had been diagnosed with two terminal illnesses back in 2010, leukaemia and emphysema, and has been somewhat jokingly telling the world of his impending death ever since.

Japanese Maple, by Clive James

“My daughter’s choice, the maple tree is new.
Come autumn and its leaves will turn to flame.
What I must do
Is live to see that. That will end the game
For me, though life continues all the same:
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Filling the double doors to bathe my eyes,
A final flood of colours will live on
As my mind dies,
Burned by my vision of a world that shone
So brightly at the last, and then was gone.”

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