Butterfly Murder Poems

Another shift ends. I'm dead on my feet.
Too shagged to even eat.
The word leads (inevitably) to you...
I slipped the timesheets from work today.
Another incident occurred...
Sweetie,...

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This is the story of poor old Jimmy Carew,
He worked for the brewery and drank special brew.
Jimmy drove the horse and trap with a twinkle...

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When I was young,                     ...

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Each morning I took the train to work,  
each evening I took the train back home. 
Each way we went through a long dark...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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A spoons not dangerous
i have heard
But in its bevel
in its curve
lies your eyeball
globe and nerve
Can't you see
with the one i left
Struggle and scream
bite your tongue
well...

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The Bright Lights

Her hair is snow-white, 
but it was not always so. 
It was black, like the night. 
It was deep in color, 
near as...

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Lay Down Be Still

I am not responsible, 
for what happened to you. 
You are accountable;
to what happened to me. 
That was and is still a...

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Freedom's Last Cry

I do not agree...
with your personal views, 
and prefer to avoid;
seeing them, 
hearing them, 
reading them. 

It was just a choice, 
not a...

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"50 Words for Poe: Foxglove"



What goes through the mind 
of Winter, when you are Autumn
just past Spring
Sometimes you’d squeeze IT
in the hot spaces left-of-centre
with the...

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White like the snow

Ice stiffened limbs
Reaching out
No saviors about

Snow flakes in the wind
I reached and reached and reached
Towards deaths cold hands

Never to see her again
I...

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Can you have a butterfly without a caterpilla
Can you have a frog without a tadpol
Can you have a human being without a fetus
Lord forgive their...

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as rain upon the road to hell
the burning coals of murderers
fall in a thousand pieces fall

have mercy on us all for we
are mourning for the...

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