Farmer John was dead and gone;
Hay-men watched his fields still:
Lumpy sacks that had for long
Drawn the crows in manner ill
Some had come to pull them down
But always failed in the task,
Bound to flee at hinted frown
Seen, they swore, in vacant mask
Passersby would scarce arrive -
Merely then to talk, no more:
"My, but crows do love those five - "
"Strange, I thought them only four..."
Land forsook turned callous ear
To the murmur of the straw,
As the moon revolved the years
O'er the din of sated caw
Farmer John had died and gone,
Yet his hay-men still remained,
Soulless things to greet each dawn
Till such time as fate ordained:
Seasons turned their clothes to dust,
Naked truth at last reveal'd:
Gutted bodies, neatly stuffed
With straw had been resealed
'Twas his family, time would show:
Wife and daughters, no mistake;
No one, though, would ever know
Who'd got John up on his stake
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Dark Poetry
PoetryThis is a colection of thoughts or nightmares in form of poetry, some of them written by myself, some only gathered by me. The darkness is in all of us just waiting to get out, but not in the light. No, darkness reaches out for darkness, so you thin...
