[Stylist] poem

[Barbara HAMMEL]

Annie, I've refrained from commenting on this poem not because I dislike it. Yet I can't say as though I do. In form and wording it's a beautiful poem, but wow! it's so dark and hopeless. I know in the poetry market this poem could fetch you something if you entered it in to a contest somewhere. Besides the fact that it rhymes, which it seems so many don't like, they would love the content and the imagery.

Barbara Hammel

On Aug 28, 2021, at 14:17, Ann Chiappetta via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:


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Poverty of the Soul
By Ann Chiappetta

Come, come to me
Rake the soul with the shame of slavery
Lend your arm of justice to those who weep
Drag the scalpel of righteousness, blood welling, deep.
Cry, cry for me
the citizen
The sister, the victim, the mother, the old one, the immigrant, the child
Lift the prison, the poverty
Infecting the collective mind

Pray, pray with me
skin on knees thinned and bruised by please
intended to Reach ears on High
Where hope falls like rain between numb fingers of sky.

2021





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  *    Joseph Campbell



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