What she did so long ago, Or didn’t do, we now don’t know. She tripped some dudes and others who With twisted true-false love were bled. By some stone of one marked dead she stopped When all that no one knows of her was through.
Linked to dVerse Poetics where Laura Bloomsbury offers the challenge to imagine the life of a deceased person. I imagined the lady in Longfellow’s In the Churchyard at Cambridge.
Poetry, Short Prose and Walking 
Longfellow’s lady tripped you too perhaps?!- I like
“By some stone of one marked dead she stopped”
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I was trying to catch the mood set by Longfellow, but I could only think of one stanza. Thank you, Laura!
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Bravely, you suggest the deceased was no saint. That seems to be what’s left out of eulogies and chiseled into tombstones…Jack Pratt was an asshole, and no one misses him.
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Jack Pratt probably didn’t write that tombstone, but he probably doesn’t care. Thank you, Glenn!
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Love the wording in this, Frank!
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Thank you, Sascha!
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🙂
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Everyone is a Saint nowadays, a legend, an absolute treasure. Where do all the real people go when they die?
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Don’t know. Thank you, Peter!
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kaykuala
She tripped some dudes and others who
With twisted true-false love were bled
One can hoodwink surreptitiously but something undeserving will eventually be known to those around
Hank
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Thank you, Hank!
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That true-false love catches up after awhile! Good job Frank!
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Thank you, Dwight!
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The anonymity of the character makes it more intriguing…
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Thank you, Reena!
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I like that last line. How can we ever really know? But what we don’t know is lost to time. (K)
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Thank you, Kerfe!
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Those who do know keep quiet. No one speaks ill of the dead, much less writes it on tablets of stone. You never know…
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One never knows. Thank you, Jane!
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🙂
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The lady doesn’t sound much like a lady!
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I really don’t know. Anything might have happened. Thank you!
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I think it’s great to present her as she was… with some faults she sounds very human.
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We all have faults. Thank you, Bjorn!
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a sassy poem to the unknown .. like it!
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Thank you, Kate!
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Puzzle
Yet Solved
Graves Return Bones
Smiles Frank Happy June
i turned 60 iN A Tropical
Storm
And
Word Press
Flood of Snafu’s…:)
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Thank you, Fred!
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😁
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Thoroughly drawn into the meter and rhyme of your lovely poem. Nice.
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Thank you, Misky!
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“With twisted true-false love were bled” is such a brilliant line. The whole poem feels so honest. Thank you for the read
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Thank you!
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