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A Poem by Elizabeth Brooks: "Crystal Tear"

Crystal Tear Have you ever been in bed awake in awe over someone or worry with wonder until daybreak Have you ever had a tear that welled...

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A Call to Love: "A Mustard Seed" by Elizabeth Brooks

A Mustard Seed Ten days ago, I met a beautiful person full of passion and personality. She was looking for one of my colleagues who had...

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A Poem by Elizabeth Brooks: "Your Reflection"

Your Reflection You love to talk to me in the mirror when I'm putting on my make-up a brilliant piece would come to me a thought or...

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A Call to Love: "I Speak to the Sound of My Cry" by Elizabeth Brooks

I Speak to the Sound of My Cry I speak to the sound of my cry and try to stifle it inside but the sound has pain of its own; unable to...

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A Call to Love by Elizabeth Brooks: "Prodigal Child"

PRODIGAL CHILD REMEMBER THERE IS NO DAWN WITHOUT A NIGHT! No matter how human beings try, they cannot shed their skin of origin. They...

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A Poem by Elizabeth Brooks: "Daughters of Our Cities"

Daughters of Our Cities in urban towns and rural villages we celebrate you! The spirit of God dwells in you. You may be broken, violated but

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A Call to Love by Elizabeth Brooks: "Morning, Noon and Infinite"

Morning, Noon and Infinite Arise, shine, for your light has come and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. For behold darkness shall...

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Two Poems by Elizabeth Brooks: "No More Tears, I Surrender", and "Scattered"

No More Tears, I Surrender I can’t even remember the beginning it was all a whirlwind. A one line text from my baby sister, bypass...

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Spirit Fire Review: February 2017, Issue #7

POETRY JD DeHart, Ken Allan Dronsfield, Shola Balogun, Donal Mahoney, Romaine Washington, Prerna Bakshi, Peter Venable VISUAL ART Junior M

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A Call to Love by Elizabeth Brooks: "Rejection"

Rejection My divorce was a mutual rejection between me and the Catholic Church. Later that year, I hinted to my sister that I wanted...

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Spirit Fire Review | January 2017, Issue #6

"And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the...

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A Call to Love: "A Tree of Life" by Elizabeth Brooks

A Call to Love – A Tree of Life Hope deferred maketh the heart sick:but when the desire cometh it is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12 (KJV)...

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A Poem by Elizabeth Brooks: "Look at Me"

Look at Me when I awake at the break of day and I listen to the highlights of overnight I'm quickly reminded of how much you struggle...

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Poetry by Elizabeth Brooks: "Unashamed"

Unashamed They hiss and wag their heads unknowing but clearly visible through opaline glass panels, not luminous incapable of producing...

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A Poem by Elizabeth Brooks: Needles and Pins

Needles and Pins Pins & Needles not in my hands, feet or body but in my spirit. I open my eyes, I am wound up with a tortured soul. Who...

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A Call to Love: "Freedom Fighters"

Freedom Fighters We were kindred spirits, part of a group of freedom fighters, librarians who fought with integrity for our community. We...

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Essay By Elizabeth Brooks: "Celebrating Life and Human Dignity: A Call to Love"

CELEBRATING LIFE AND HUMAN DIGNITY: A CALL TO LOVE At the Core My first impression in the parking lot was a sense of being on foreign...

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