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Beauty For Ashes

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Beauty For Ashes

(Isaiah 61:3)

There they stood robbed of everything
Some of them were left with hardly anything;
Robbed of promises and scripts, hopes, feet trapped in weed
Dire danger and what's left was a desperate need;
The root of all evil trapped their feet it seemed like forever hence
They stood silent, taken aback in owe, in reverence…
So he mercifully, once twice gave them the promise
The thunder was heard
So He once, twice, three times made her His lady.
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Submitted on April 24, 2016

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Scheme X AABBXXXXX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 460
Words 84
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 9
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A Radday

I started writing poetry in my early childhood. When I was quite small I wrote a poem for my mum. When she passed away many years later I realised that was her favourite present from me ever. I started to think that there might just be some value to my poetry. more…

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