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You Who Thirsts
Today’s poem is a sonnet which is part character poem and part dialogue. It is based after the character Jill Pole who is found in C.S. Lewis’, The Silver Chair, which is fourth in the The Chronicles of Narnia series. The sonnet’s initial inspiration comes from the following line from the beginning of that book, which reads, “It was a dull Autumn day and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym. She was crying because they had been bullying her….” This poem is titled, You Who Thirsts.
Dear child, come to me from your crying place Where you hide from giants (bullying brutes)— You, whose confidence…
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