Where The Dead Grass Grows Poem by Stephen Carey

Where The Dead Grass Grows

Rating: 2.0


No, brother, we shouldn’t go there.
Let’s turn and go another way.
‘Cause you know the dead grass grows where
You are on your last day.

Do you see those butterflies?
Do you see their blackened wings?
This is what becomes of lies
And other terrible things.

We have to go, nobody knows.
Do not make such a fuss.
That is where the dead grass grows,
It is no place for us.

You see even the honey
In the fallen tree is rotten.
You see all the laws of the world
Have simply been forgotten.

Where the dead grass grows,
Everything is old.
They wandered far, and they were lost.
Where the dead grass grows,
Everything is cold.
They didn’t know life was the cost.

No, brother, we can’t go near.
Let’s turn and go away from here.
Because this place I dare not peer
Is the only thing I truly fear.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Frank Cannon 12 June 2008

Shows a lively imaginative mind at work. Well done Stephen.

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Greenwolfe 1962 28 May 2008

This one has three fair verses,2-4. Beyond that, it is not well written. The inconsistent rhythm and rhyme destroy whatever merit there is in the poem. The poem itself is interesting in proposing that death grows the grass. A poetic possibility, but a scientific question of great mystery. GW62

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Ben Gieske 28 May 2008

I like this poem because it makes me think.

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