[Stylist] poem

[Kevin Pirnie]

 Roses are red and violets are purple
 Your love is like Maple Surple
 We are all individual’s unique in every way
  Be kind and love one another like brothers and sisters I pray

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 11:17 AM Chris Kuell via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org>
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> Hi Annie,
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> I don’t know if you wanted people to respond personally rather than to the
> group, but I’ve never been much for rules.
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> I like this poem—it evokes emotion and pain and sorrow. But to me, the
> last line falls flat. ’numb fingers of sky’ rhymes with the previous line,
> but it leaves me scratching my head rather than feeling satisfied.
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> Others, of course, might feel differently.
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> Thanks for sharing,
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> Chris
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> *From:* Stylist <stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org> *On Behalf Of *Ann
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> *Sent:* Saturday, August 28, 2021 3:16 PM
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> Poverty of the Soul
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> By Ann Chiappetta
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> Come, come to me
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> Rake the soul with the shame of slavery
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> Lend your arm of justice to those who weep
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> Drag the scalpel of righteousness, blood welling, deep.
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> Cry, cry for me
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> the citizen
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> The sister, the victim, the mother, the old one, the immigrant, the child
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> Lift the prison, the poverty
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> Infecting the collective mind
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> Pray, pray with me
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> skin on knees thinned and bruised by please
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> intended to Reach ears on High
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> Where hope falls like rain between numb fingers of sky.
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> 2021
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> Ann Chiappetta, Author
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> “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that
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>    - * Joseph Campbell*
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