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Lot's Wife's Lament
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Lot's Wife's Lament |
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Thisman Junior Member
since 2003-01-21
Posts 19 |
I can still see Abraham counting his precious sheep among the blood-red flowers of dawn his eyes filled with skekels as he pushed us into strange pastures I can still see my precious daughters as that bastard Lot cast them to the mob beneath the blood-red sky the towers of Gommorah rang with their screams all I ever wanted was a warm place to sleep and food for my little girls all I got was fire and brimstone ten honest men would have save us? I haven't met ten honest men in my life much less in this place don't look back the angels said well hell, what would you expect a woman to do? if you told her that? I suppose they'll put the story in a book someday I just hope someone reads it and realizes how easy it is to get screwed around and turned into a pillar of salt |
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Thisman Junior Member
since 2003-01-21
Posts 19 |
Sorry, should have read: "ten honest men would have saveD us?" |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Speaking for myself, it would be very hard not to look back...but I would try. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
If a man were specifically told not to look back, does that make him a sheep? I have always wondered about the teachings...I would very much love to embrace them all, but hearts are hearts, and souls are souls and we all do things differently... sometimes I feel it goes back to a much deeper meaning, and that even then, when the Bible was going through its own Genesis, there was later a decision to cast one's "lot" of its own... forgive me...you got me to thinking deeper than I normally do on an Open Forum poem...but you know what? That is a very GOOD thing...thank you! |
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ThisDiamond Member Rara Avis
since 2002-02-22
Posts 9353Michigan, USA |
I liked the replies you drew with this poem as much as the poem itself. Thought provoking, and rich in interpretation. TD |
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Huan Yi Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688Waukegan |
This is excellent, absolutely outstanding. It takes a real artist to cast him/herself into another being. It’s very much akin to Wislawa Szymborska’s poem. You are to be congratulated. Again Bravo! P.S. http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=1936 |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
I'm not usually into religious poetry, but I did like this one |
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TexUS Member
since 2003-03-20
Posts 228 |
HA! Awesome write! |
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wranx Member Elite
since 2002-06-07
Posts 3689Moved from a shack to a barn |
Very nicely done! Yes, very |
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*Alli4000*
since 2004-03-21
Posts 3188The World of Poetry |
Yes, good write! Enjoyed~ ~Alli~ Happy Holidays! |
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