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BONEYARD
BONEYARD
_________
Shovel the earth &
shovel it deep
Lower into the sepulchre
Surround the burrowed
space w/ lilacs & eulogies--
Family tears
Seal the earth up again
for a child had been
consigned to rest here
For another child
embittered
had shown him his most
glorified toy from youth
his lifelong phobia:
The receiving ...
Saturday 28th June 2025 1:54 pm
Musing in Ilkley Cemetery
Musing In Ilkley Cemetery
No more on the hill the Middleton clan,
now resting apart in municipal plot.
He to the left with the Romans and Catholics,
she to the right among Protestant stock.
He passes his time amongst sisters and Irish,
she spends her days with the cream of the mill.
And were they to rise, and meet on the pathway,
they could look through the Ash t...
Thursday 20th March 2014 2:52 pm
The Silent Quill
`
a grated gate by midnight's light
once fell upon a sorry sight
as rain washed out the scarlet stain
the skies bowed down to hear the pain
a voice without a body heard
the sordid tale its waist did gird
one witness found, torn leaf by leaf
Creation's glory sank to grief
a tale no word was writ nor said
into the ground the silence bled
a soaked and orphaned qui...
Thursday 6th January 2011 12:48 pm
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