Last Words From the Pyre

A poem about sacred rage

Denise G
Aug 11, 2022
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I am the Jezebel
of all Jezebels

Of those that came
before me
and will
come after me

I am the
concentrated essence
A B S O L U T E

And will burn clean
not in the fire
of hate and fear
but in the flames of
P U R I F I C A T I O N

And the heat
of S H A M E
will be felt
on your face

I recently took a workshop on oracular poetry. There were deep discussions about sacred rage and the persecution wound that many of us carry in the feminine energy. These are the words that came through me as the conduit.

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