The Female Bluebeard

A poem based on actual events.....sadly!!!......xxx

Amid the green hills of Indiana,
there lived a woman by the name of Belle
she was outwardly a respectable widow
but she carried with her the secret of hell

On a cool, crisp April evening
In the year of 1908
She left this world abruptly
to  meet the furnace of her fate

Murdered by a farm-hand,
who calmly set her home ablaze,
she could not escape the burning inferno
or see through the dark, thick smoky haze

Why had he done it? the people cried
and soon the answer to this question was found
for one hundred dead men. women and children
were found buried in Belles farmyard ground

Like a female Bluebeard
she'd enticed lonely men her way
and once she'd taken from them all they had
they never saw another day

Women and Children were not spared her axe
she would poison them or give them the chop
she then stole from them money and jewels
and then happily went into town to shop

Widow Belle Gunnes was the devil in disguise
a cold and calculating beast
and had she not met a firey end
the killings may never have ceased........................

Reviews

Deep stunning piece, Lin-J, If I read this, you're taking me to another part of the world, and where I can almost see the visions alive.... compliments to you.

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Wow so intruguing and so very powerful,
Loved how you started out the write, and
Got more intense as I read.
So nicely done.