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The following poem was inspired by Dr. Jayne Shatz's artwork, The Empty Bowl, which appears on the Poetry X Hunger website--ART - Poetry X Hunger. Fading Away hunger so strong that even imagination does not ease off the pain because the mind is weaker than the limbs and not even the hymns can be remembered as the hunger gives the feeling that the belly is being ripped asunder and as the growling sounds off like thunder until the ears can hear no more because the senses no longer respond … yet there is no food in sight and there is no might left and with no rights to even one proper daily meal there is no way for this body to heal so I fade away  Linette is a Virgin Islands poet with roots in the BVI and USVI. She began writing in 1996. Linette's work is available in her Kindle book, "Be Inspired: Poems by Linette Rabsatt," on her blog, “Words of Ribbon,” "Virgin Islands Callaloo: Poems from the Caribbean," and on the Visual Verse website.
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