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Poems submitted for the 2019 World Food Day Poetry Competition

Poem by Diane Wilbon Parks

1/13/2020

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Spoon Feeds Hunger
©Diane Wilbon Parks, April 2019
 
What I want is
for you to feel everything,
for you to take your spoon,
and start digging into
their place of less than,
their plates of empty,
their bulging bones,
        that growling ache
that crawls across promises,
that easily float through  hunger        like air,
that drags them into sleep,
wakes them up, disappears
 and comes back again as empty as air. 
 
 What I want is
for you to feel everything,
for you to take your spoon
and empty yourself  -  out,
for you to dig up every song, every dream,
every day, every week, every year,
 every breakfast, every lunch and every dinner.
Empty them out!
until your belly            resembles their belly,
until their spasms leave,
until whispers are no more,
until breathing looks back at you,
until hope slips into your pockets,
and you become a spoon to feed hunger.
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​Diane Wilbon Parks (Prince George’s County, MD) is a poet, visual artist, and author; Diane has written a Children’s Book and two poetry collections; her most recent, published collection is The Wisdom of Blue Apples.   Diane is one of six PG County Poets whose poetry has been highlighted throughout the DMV. She celebrated the permanent installation of one of her poems and art pieces at the Patuxent Research Refuge - North Tract.

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