TITLE (EDIT) There, On The Ground, Her Poor Body Lay, Dead.
DESCRIPTION
It's a villanelle about a girl who died on her way to a funeral. (Actually, her parents sent her to her grandmother's funeral because her parents were too old to do so, but I didn't have room to stuff this info inside.) [159 words]
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Aged 12, I love reading and writing. I enjoyed Little Women, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Shakespeare Secret (called Interred with the Bones in the US), The Professor and False Impression. I just entered secondary school. [October 2009]
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There, On The Ground, Her Poor Body Lay, Dead. Abracadabra
There, on the ground, her poor body lay, dead.
The delicate face showed too many signs of defeat.
Back in her home her parents were strangled by dread.
Her face was white as snow as though theyˇ¦ve never been red.
Her endeavour to attend to the funeral was incomplete:
There, on the ground, her poor body lay, dead.
Back in her home her parents had bought her bread.
Yet she could not be back at home and eat.
Back in her home her parents were strangled by dread.
The heartless weather had torn hers into shreds
And she could only wait for herself to be beat.
There, on the ground, her poor body lay, dead.
Her parentsˇ¦ tears shed and they knew their daughter had bled;
They were aware of the drop of her blood heat.
Back in her home her parents were strangled by dread.
They were fed with regret,
For her heart had ceased to beat,
There, on the ground, her poor body lay, dead.
Back in her home her parents were strangled by dread.
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