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The Sunday Poem  is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.

Joe Maita reads Michael L. Newell’s poem at its conclusion.

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photo via PickPik

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Caught in a Storm

I  thought I heard chimes
in the wind calling my name
I swear they claimed I had little time

to open my eyes to the universe
the rain rippled on a nearby tin roof
as though Milt Jackson was part of the storm

I realized my remaining time was brief yet
I heard Nina Simone at the edge of a wood
singing “Feeling Good” with a lilt

and power that lifted me off the ground
I lifted my face into the rain without
complaint it was like diving into

an elegant pool of sound such as
the Duke might produce and I smiled

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Listen to Joe Maita read Michael L. Newell’s poem

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Michael L. Newell lives on the Atlantic Coast of Florida. His most recent book of poems is Passage of a Heart. Click here to read “What is this Path” – a collection of poems published on Jerry Jazz Musician

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Listen to the 1962 recording of Duke Ellington playing his composition “Solitude,” with Charles Mingus (bass); and Max Roach (drums). [Universal Music Group]

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War. Remembrance. Walls. The High Price of Authoritarianism – by editor/publisher Joe Maita

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