I’ve no grave to visit,
wreaths to weave
or epitaph to write.
Instead of a tombstone,
the headboard
of another woman’s bed.
Colette Colfer lectures in World Religions in Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland. She is an award winning radio-documentary maker and spent many years working as a journalist. She is working on her first collection of poetry.
I really liked this one. 🙂
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Very succinct and effective!
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Yes, I love poems that take complex (even paradoxical) things and express them beautifully in very few words without needless extrapolation. Short poems are harder to write well and this one jumped off the page.
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Agreed!
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