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Poems submitted for the 2020 World Food Day Poetry Competition
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Poems by Brittany Sabatino

11/11/2020

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Whole

Food deserts,
Seek the water
Of whole foods,
Farmers markets,
And rezoned minds.

Despair sits waiting,
In the bottom,
Of every bottle
At a liquor store.
When organic foods,
Are really needed to feed,
The hungry heart.

Communities burn,
In redlined isolation.
Hearts are destroyed,
With complete desolation.

Nourishment needs to be soul deep.
Deeper than skin tone,
Deeper than backgrounds,
Deeper than stereotypes.

An unassembled puzzle,
We struggle towards wholeness.
Unity is the base of community,
If we do not grow together,
We will fall apart.

Peace is only found,
When the pieces of you matter,
To becoming wholly me.



Sustain the Beat
​

Hungry for change
We can sustain,
Looking towards the future.

The march of quiet feet,
To the beat,
Of voices raised in unity,
Seeking true community,
Gives us hope for growth.

Upraised fists,
And outstretched hands,
Join in one gesture,
Of solidified solidarity.

To sustain the beat,
Of positive change,
Demonstrate compassion,
Incapacitate hate,
And act with love.
​
The future is only as bright,
As our collective light.


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Brittany Sabatino is an Italian-American a poet working in the Washington, DC area. She has also been published by Thirteen Myna Birds, Scarlet Leaf Review, Dyst Literary Journal and is a contributor in Spilled Ink and Fae Corps Inc. poetry anthologies. Right now, she is working on a poetry manuscript and trying not to spend all her money on books. 

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