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Here, Dwells A Monster - Part I

... i. ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even my spouse. My wife and son lay silent, all tucked in their beds, Visions of demons no long......Read the rest...

Categories: shuffle off this mortal coil, christmas, evil, father, halloween,
Form: Rhyme

Death In Sherwood Forest

...DEATH IN SHERWOOD FOREST Thank you for agreeing to this final interview, Before you shuffle off this mortal coil. You’ve lived for many centuries And soon you’ll be returning t......Read the rest...

Categories: shuffle off this mortal coil, death, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Being a Hero

...Toil away for precious oil - Leave a trace in foreign sand. Shuffle off your mortal coil - Your sacrifice is in demand. Kill a kid. Go back home. Redeploy. Lose a limb. Bang! You're......Read the rest...

Categories: shuffle off this mortal coil, america, depression, military, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme

Dead People's Things

...I went to Savers on the other day And what struck me right away Was how many things placed in the store That were obviously from dead people not needed any more There were James Last vinyl reco......Read the rest...

Categories: shuffle off this mortal coil, death, life, poems,
Form: Ballad

Ways To Go

...Some like to say “give up the ghost”, To mean forever abandoning your post. The rowdy ones prefer to kick the bucket, Though that would surely make a racket. Many are said to bite the dus......Read the rest...

Categories: shuffle off this mortal coil, body, death, farewell, goodbye,
Form: Light Verse

Brave New World

...(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World") Human hatchery Clink clink clink clink... Test tubes prattling past along the chrome plated production line. Glistening unde......Read the rest...

Categories: shuffle off this mortal coil, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse

To Be Alive Or Not To Be ?

...Why would you shuffle off this mortal coil When in this life there is so much to live for? Like Yorrick ,when barely a huff of breath is left. Surely when Hamlet said "To Be or Not to Be" he was......Read the rest...

Categories: shuffle off this mortal coil, childhood, death, education, family,
Form: Free verse