She said, "I'm tired of the war,
I want the kind of work I had before,
a wedding dress or something white
to wear upon my swollen appetite."
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: history, Leonard Cohen, love poetry, politics, religion, song lyrics, unsettling
Life's one big disaster,
I hear the sound of laughter
Coming from the hereafter...
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: defiance, fate, life, Martin Walkyier, religion, Skyclad, song lyrics
I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind,
And did He stoop to quibble could tell why
The little buried mole continues blind...
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Countee Cullen, race, religion, social commentary, sonnet