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Best Poems Written by Lisa Carroll

Below are the all-time best Lisa Carroll poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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All Becauseof a Basket

All Because of a Basket

I have a bonnie  blue basket
Which was stolen to put in a casket
I searched high and low
Came back from the show
And promptly blew a gasket

Now I'm the one in the casket
And they buried me with that basket
I opened my eyes 
To the preacher’s surprise 
Then the mourners grabbed the hatchet

I ran like a gazelle
And was chased straight to hell
The mourners stopped short
They gave a great snort
And now I've nothing to sell

To get my soul released
From the bonds of hell unleashed
I cried to the devil
He gave me a shovel 
And told me to dig a great crease


In the chasm of the pit
I attempted to spit
To quell the flames 
Of hell’s burning shame
And relieve my flesh of the grit

But the shovel I wield hit
 A glowing log it split
So I searched for a rope 
To escape that smoke
To climb out of that endless pit

Now I'm back at that funeral
I'm not a mourner as usual
Now I'm back in the grave
I am very afraid
My sins are incommutable 

Wait I'm sure this is a dream
I open my mouth to scream 
I wake up this time
With a really cool rhyme 
But it changes not my schemes

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Autopsy

Autopsy

My words are my scalpel
My incision precise
My organs are splayed
My veins bleed ice

My mind is the blade
My eyes the knife
The light there fades
My treatise to entice

My screams are swallowed 
By the empty abyss 
My Heart is hollowed
My smile betrays bliss 

In utterance I wallow
My pain I kiss
My soul is sallow
My flesh bruised by fist

My whispers like gallows
My mind to dismiss

My soul exposed
Under the tissue unbound
The words are posed
To uncover or confound