THE LILYWHITE BOYS
Sand, cement, water
Go to make living demons,
The Lilywhite Boys.
Flowing like water
Concrete lets the Lilywhites,
Rise up to grab you.
Drawing pleasure from
Terror. The Lilywhite Boys
Let the concrete set.
Like living mortar
The Lilywhite Boys rise up,
Straight from the footpath.
Turned half into stone
People die screaming as the,
Lilywhite Boys smile.
Screaming as they sink
People drowning in concrete,
Lilywhite Boys smirk.
Mortar turns to water
Making people sink fast,
As though in quicksand.
Down, down people go
Sinking clean out of sight,
As the Lilywhite Boys watch.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About this poem
Sand, cement, water Go to make living demons, The Lilywhite Boys.
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Written on May 25, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 04, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABC ABX XCX AXX XDX XXX AXX XXX XXD |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 628 |
Words | 105 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
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