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Poem: “Like Jonah”

by on Oct 09, 2011 in Poetry
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Like Jonah

Hands shaking
Stiff body aching
Face white as a lily
Your story so familiar
Three days in the belly of that whale
Forced your faith
You set off running
To where before you dared not go
And saved a nation.

I laugh because
Now I understand
Like so many others,
Hands shaking
Stiff body aching
Face white as a lily,
I too am aching in the belly of a whale
And am set to run
To where before I dared not go

Michele Marie


Michele Marie is a poet and creative writer from Illinois.
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