My second poem for discussion Thursday January 2 2024 Hurting Jill

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Dec 31, 2024, 5:21:38 PM12/31/24

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Dear Compadres,

My first poem was a sonnet, Some Have Wild Blood.

I attached it to this email as well.

This is my second poem for discussion on Thursday, January 2, 2024. Coming from a dark place. Wrote it today.

Jill

Jill Stockinger

Hurting

Broken bodies, broken hope.
Counting lost lives.
We become stronger
in the broken places?
I think not. Just more lies
we tell ourselves, pretending
things will get better.
They do not.

I hold a litany of lies, printed
and parroted through the years
to help each generation carry on.
I try to read a solemn prayer
in front of grieving families.
The burden of loss they carry
is breaking them.
We have shed enough tears
to fill an ocean and we keep
praising a distant God,
but the slaughter never ends.
I will praise Him no longer.
Why should I? It makes
no difference to me or Him.

Poem Jill Huting (Broken bodies, broken hope).docx

Poem Jill Sonnet Some Have Wild Blood (In black of night, who pulls the moon).docx

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