Archive for the 'Poetry' Category

Often poetry has the power to convey far more of the emotional impact of hunger than any prose could ever hope to do. Such is the case with this powerful poem by Katrin Talbot, reprinted from Empty Shoes.
 
THE TRANSITIVE PROPERTY OF HUNGER
Through the hot callous dust     of noisy Tijuana   we saw her up ahead of [...]

I have just discovered a wonderful litttle book of poetry entitled EMPTY SHOES, Poems on the Hungry and Homeless. Although most of the poems focus on the poor, hungry, and homeless of the United States,  these issues are universal. And there are a number of poems in EMPTY SHOES dealing with the same issues with a more [...]

Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872–1906), the son of two runaway slaves, started writing poetry before he was six. He is still considered one of our most influencial American poets. He was known for his use of dialect as in this fragment of Philosophy which is painfully direct and brutally honest.
It’s easy ‘nough to titter w’en    de stew is [...]

Stop Hunger Now’s Virginia Director, Lee Warren, and I have known each other for longer than either of us want to admit. She is a human dynamo and is a wonderful worship leader, and I am indebited to her for sharing so many of her worship resources on hunger. The following is one example, a beautifully moving hymn based [...]

Each of us has our own individual understanding of obscenity. Not all of us see obscenity in the same light. Personally, I am far more comfortable with verbal obscenity than I am with the far more rampant, but culturally acceptable moral obscenity tolerated and accepted by our society.
 
GRAFFITI
An obscenityscrawledaccross the lvesof millions,hungeris a four letter [...]

Born in the central Italian town of Assissi in 1182, Francis Bernardone is the most beloved saint in the Western world. His simplicity, his love for nature, his deep identification with the poor, have all endeared him to millions of people from all spiritual paths.
Although he grew up in a wealthy merchant family, he devoted [...]

I am in the middle of rearranging my home office. This is where I do most of my writing. Getting the office just right is an art form, but like most art requires a great deal more time and sweat than inspiration.
While taking a breather, this morning, I started flipping through some of my old [...]