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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. <br>
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<div dir="ltr">Barbara Hammel</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Aug 28, 2021, at 14:17, Ann Chiappetta via Stylist <stylist@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To reply to me individually email <a href="mailto:anniecms64@gmail.com">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Poverty of the Soul<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By Ann Chiappetta<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Come, come to me<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rake the soul with the shame of slavery<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lend your arm of justice to those who weep<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Drag the scalpel of righteousness, blood welling, deep.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cry, cry for me<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the citizen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The sister, the victim, the mother, the old one, the immigrant, the child<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lift the prison, the poverty <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Infecting the collective mind<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pray, pray with me<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">skin on knees thinned and bruised by please<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">intended to Reach ears on High<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Where hope falls like rain between numb fingers of sky.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2021<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ann Chiappetta, Author<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anniecms64@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">` Making meaningful connections with others through writing `<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.annchiappetta.c/">www.annchiappetta.c</a>om Facebook Annie Chiappetta<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”
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