Life After Death


They were carefully stacked,

those magazines 

“Woman’,

‘Woman’s Own’,

‘Woman’s Weekly’,

all those ‘women’

yellowing in piles.

‘Tit-Bits’ and ‘Reveille’

filled with films 

and their Stars

long forgotten now,

hobbies abandoned,

recipes uncooked,

all stashed 

as crumpled memories now.


A treasure trove,

line after line 

to be read and re-read

like the wrinkles 

of a lived in face.

Line after line

recording

the gold

of a well lived life.



https://www.darkwinterlit.com/post/life-after-death-by-lynn-white

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  1. Anonymous29 October 2026 at 09:17

    Hi Lynn, Kudos from Canada! Just to let you know I saw your wonderful poem published by DarkWinter Lit on facebook and have reposted it on my social media. As a lover of women's magazines, I loved the images, how you managed to capture a lifetime in so few words. Congrats!

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