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Poets within this community of writers are feeling this moment in time, and writing about it.
Daniel Warren Brown’s poem 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, drop me an email.
Joe Maita
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A recent protest in Red Hook, New York
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Villages Too
……Red Hook, NY
population a mere thousands
is the conscience of capillaries
as a village we are
a pulsing dissent
through the body politic
a warm flow
of compassion
that melts ice murders
maybe we are less than cities
where millions march
but we perfuse the cause
for Renee Good
Alex Pretti
and all the future victims
of terror
on four small corners
outside the neighborhood deli
and Mobil gas station
and Mexican restaurant
Red Hook lifeblood flows
into the veins of Sister cities
week after week.
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Listen to the 1973 recording of Bob Marley and the Wailers performing the Marley/Peter Tosh composition “Get Up, Stand Up.” [Universal Music Group]
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Daniel Warren Brown has loved jazz (and music in general) ever since he delved into his parents’ 78 collection as a child. He is a retired special education teacher who began writing as a senior. He always appreciates being published in journals and anthologies. At age 72 he published his first collection Family Portraits in Verse and Other Illustrated Poems through Epigraph Books, Rhinebeck, NY. Daniel writes daily about music, art and whatever else catches his imagination.
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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
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