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My Flesh Becomes Word

Robert Joseph Mattingly 1957 (Brookline, Massachusetts)

Free verse
Paper is my skin
And the ink is blood
Flowing deep within
As ideas flood.

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And the word became flesh and dwells among us (Jesus)

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Written on February 20, 2024

Submitted by robertm.06281 on February 20, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 73
Words 15
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
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Robert Joseph Mattingly

A Poet for forty years since 1983, a Substitute Teacher, B.S.Ed.. I built a building of poems beyond imagination, 64 inches tall. more…

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