This is How the Beast Ceases to Be (three days in the grave)

[ldamoff]

(First)

By degrees
With red growth
Budding in blood.

(Second)

By forgetting
What freedom means
And failing

(Third)

By surrender
To a bloody tree
budding white.

love,
luke

Comments

[jaezesse]

This is beautiful. Succinct, expressive, powerful. You're going to have to explain the first stanza to me a little bit.

Actually, if you wouldn't mind, you can explain as much of it as you want in your own words. I have a pretty good idea... and poetry isn't always about understanding some exact meaning, but I don't want to assume anything either.