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Poets within this community of writers are feeling this moment in time, and writing about it.
Here is another example.
If you have something you want to say about what is happening in the world and how it may be affecting you in the way of a poem, and would like to have it considered for this series, drop me an email with a subject heading “poems written in the midst of our times.”
Joe Maita
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Luke Vargas, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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What Is Believed
…………….“The soul that is within me
…………………….no man can degrade”
…………………– Frederick Douglass
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……………………………& we don’t believe
……………………………in lyin’ kings.
Although
there are those among us
who believe in the King of Kings
& in a God who created us all in
His image.
…………………………………………So I refuse
to dignify
..the beliefs of those
......who would vilify
....……..or stigmatize
……………dehumanize
……………………or try to
convince me other-
wise.
& my own beliefs
will always
suffice.
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By Connie Johnson
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Connie Johnson has multiple Pushcart Prize nominations for poetry. A California-based writer, she has authored Everything is Distant Now (Blue Horse Press) and I Have Almost Everything (Boats Against the Current). In a Place of Dreams, her digital chapbook (containing audio readings/personal narrative), was published by Jerry Jazz Musician. Click here to view it.
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More poetry on Jerry Jazz Musician
War. Remembrance. Walls. The High Price of Authoritarianism – by editor/publisher Joe Maita
“The Sound of Becoming,” J.C. Michaels’ winning story in the 70th Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Contest
More short fiction on Jerry Jazz Musician
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