YOUR BREATH WAS SHED

Your breath was shed
Invisible to make
About the soiled undead
Night for my sake,

A raining trail
Intangible to them
With biter's tooth and tail
And cobweb drum,

A dark as deep
My love as a round wave
To hide the wolves of sleep
And mask the grave.
By Dylan Thomas

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Dylan Thomas was a well known poet who lived in Wales. This poem has been a favourite of mine through the years.

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Clears Throat and says excuse me!

laughs merrily....................