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Posted By: FreddyHeadey
09-Jan-19 - 06:44 AM
Thread Name: rhymes for counting Magpies
Subject: RE: rhymes for counting Magpies
pleasantly dark :

One for sorrow
Thick as her blood
Two for joy
Sun after the flood
Three for a girl
Eyes open forever
Four for a boy
Who’s ever so clever
Five for silver
The gleam of his knife
Six for gold
Why he’s taken her life
Seven for a secret
Never to be told
Eight for a wish
To never grow old
Nine for a kiss
Of forbidden desire
Ten for a bird
Stole the tongue of a liar
Eleven for a funeral
The coffin so small
Twelve for Hell
Through broken glass they’ll crawl
And Thirteen for the Devil
Who’s come to take them all

"Toni"
   

https://legendsofthewordsmiths.com/2016/12/28/writing-prompt-one-for-sorrow/