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Blood Ritual
by Teri T LahmonIt
Drips
from gouges
made by your
barbed wire love
escapes in rivulets
from skin
stroked by your claws
trickles from your
torture trial pinpricks
while you try and find a place
from which I do not bleed.
07/20/2003 Author's Note:
Also, I need to add a note, which I should have added before. The "torture trial pinpricks" is metaphor inspired by the "Malleus Malleficarum" and witch trials. According to the Malleus Malleficarum there was a spot on the witch touched by the devil from which when pricked the witch would not bleed. Innocent women were pricked hundreds of times while their torturers tried to located this nonexistent spot.
Posted on 07/22/2003
Copyright © 2024 Teri T Lahmon
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Ginette T Belle on 07/22/03 at 04:31 PM extremely graphic...lots of potent energy flowing through this poem...I love it |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 07/22/03 at 04:46 PM Gory but highly original poem! |
| Posted by Max Bouillet on 07/22/03 at 06:20 PM Vivid and stunning with a mix of strong emotions. Great read. |
| Posted by Graeme Fielden on 07/24/03 at 03:12 PM very strong writing. Intense and rich with images...great job! :) |
| Posted by Richard Paez on 09/07/03 at 04:53 PM The author's note opened this up for me. Love and judgment, love and persecution, love too often is an inquisition. This made my blood run cold- someone I knew long ago, someone I loved very much, could have easily been the one to write this. Your verse captures her pain and my guilt directly and vengefully. excellent poem, Teri. {m} |
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