Winding Sheet Poems - Poems about Winding Sheet

Six Feet Under

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Where there's a will
there's a funeral
death is a fact of life
a grave undertaking
for a mortician
and one day some day
you and I
will wake up dead
hopefully the lifetime led
was o...

Picking At Scabs

...
A musky, burnt haze sears slowly into my nostrils.  
The twilight hour pulses steadily, bathing stark walls in an eerie gloom.  
Too awake to drift to sleep, yet too tired to drag my bones of...

Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek

...The sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All the store fronts were decorated; it was a colourful sigh...

Party Folk

...Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes,
Nibble their toast, and cool their tea with sighs,
Or else forget the purpose of the night,
Forget their tea -- forget their appetite.
See with cros...

Confessions of a Crazy Mixed-Up Elderly He-Goat

...What becomes of crazy mixed up kids fifty years on?
They become crazy mixed up elderly he-goats.
I am in part a Protestant,
In part I am a Jew,
But then I am a Catholic,
on off-days an atheist, ...

What Becomes of Crazy Mixed Up Kids Fifty Years On

...They become crazy mixed up elderly he-goats.

I am in part a Protestant,
In part I am a Jew,
But then I am a Catholic,
on off-days an atheist, too.

I’m something of a socialist
and pay my un...

The Elder

...In the shadow of this tree, 
Judas mapped his misery, 

But saw no finger-post, save one: 
A beckoning oblivion.

So up he climbed, with labored breath, 
To where he could devise his death.

...

Is That the Moon I See

...Is that a moon I see,
Flickering its solitary eye down upon me.
Casting earth in the light of its mysterious glow.
Hurling shimmering rays upon the winter snow.
Is this heavenly orb some kind of ...

Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve- Xxxv Part Two

...Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
                 II

The first signs reek tell-tale
Buffer-to-buffer parking lots choc-a-bloc
Long insistent hor...

I Just Hit the Unicorn

...fetishized lament
echoed
from colourfully besmeared winding sheet


devouring luminosity
become my pivotal infringement
vigorous luminosity


somethin' s wrong with her transcript
    -the...

Draped In a Lavender Light

...I wore fear
 like a winding sheet,
 leaving behind trails
 of dead dreams

I held hope in my hands
 and weeping, it slid
 through my fingers
 evaporating to naught

I undulated to music
 p...

Journeys Translation of Etiemble S Tercets Voyages By T Wignesan

...Journeys, Translation of Etiemble’s tercets: Voyages by T. Wignesan
                                  For André Gâteau

(End rhyme scheme: aab, ccd, aab, eed in the original, the first and third terc...

And Then Make Love

...I’m glad of April rain,
Keeping us indoors
Inside our rattled window pane
While the night storm pours.

The rain’s a winding sheet,
Shrouding up the night;
Inside we drink and talk and eat
By...

The Ballad of Mary Morgan

...Two hundred and three long years have flown
  Since you swung in Gallows Lane.
Now only two rough and mossy stone
  Memorials remain.

And one recounts the sin and shame,
  The ignominious deat...

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