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Stale Voices

Beth Jabs 2005 (NM)

Give me my bread,
from your cold hands
and your vendetta
to understanding her
gets me drunk
with bloody wine

She's laid at the altar
you set fire to
her poor sinner's hand
"Fear not" you say,
"For I am with you".

You eat from the basket
she's given
and call her blood
his "blood of life".

About this poem

This poem was written on March 13th, 2022. It's about the pain of hearing my mother and people in church talk ill of my sister, behind her back.

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Written on March 13, 2022

Submitted by bethanyjabs on April 18, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXAXX ABXXB XXXX
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 291
Words 62
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 5, 4
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