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    Mother and Daughter of the Earth: Personal Perceptions of the Homeless; the Unloved and the Loved; Men, Women, and Children; of the Young and the Old… in Verse and in Song
    Mother and Daughter of the Earth: Personal Perceptions of the Homeless; the Unloved and the Loved; Men, Women, and Children; of the Young and the Old… in Verse and in Song
    Mother and Daughter of the Earth: Personal Perceptions of the Homeless; the Unloved and the Loved; Men, Women, and Children; of the Young and the Old… in Verse and in Song
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    Mother and Daughter of the Earth: Personal Perceptions of the Homeless; the Unloved and the Loved; Men, Women, and Children; of the Young and the Old… in Verse and in Song

    By Dianna Finn

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    Are you homeless...unloved...loved? Will you journey with me to the depths of despair? Will you journey with me to the heights of joy ... to a spiritual awakening of the good in every man? Please come with me.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNewman Springs Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateSep 14, 2023
    ISBN9798887636764
    Mother and Daughter of the Earth: Personal Perceptions of the Homeless; the Unloved and the Loved; Men, Women, and Children; of the Young and the Old… in Verse and in Song

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      Mother and Daughter of the Earth - Dianna Finn

      Table of Contents

      Title

      Copyright

      Overtown Overture

      Blues Is a Long Hungry Cry

      Vignette

      Contemplating the Dream of Peace

      Don't Be Frightened, Children

      Evening Song

      Liberty City Nocturne

      Dark Falsette

      Witness Stroll

      Star Man

      Dance with the Homeless

      Symphony Street

      Poop Marche

      Star-spangled Conscience

      Old Blues Will Never Die

      Winter Danse

      Who Failed Johnny?

      Hissories

      The Law

      The Circle

      C'moan, Tutti

      Checkerboard

      Eight Donut Holes

      Daddy Take a Look

      A Rainbow's Down

      Miami Is Mississippi in 1991

      Composer

      Crown Minuet

      Irrational

      Chains

      Pick 'Em and Moan 'Em

      Tomorrow's Vision

      Destitution Speaks

      Bathtime

      Living Ain't Forgivin'

      Closed Doors

      A Dog's Life

      Ragman (with Old Clothes)

      Square Meal

      Children

      Ethiopia Where?

      Quick Change

      Money Pl-ueeze!

      Conversin' with Myself

      Take Me to Heaven

      Could Be You

      Weeping for the Trees

      Uptown Apparition

      A Welcoming

      A Dark Dream

      Main Street

      No Reason for Racism

      Whispered Thunder

      A Happiness of Sorts

      Not for Every Eye

      Spit to the Side

      My Bad Habit was Lovin' You

      Cotton Fields Are Gone

      Miami River

      Discard

      Tetchy

      The Unabbreviated Farce

      Pathetic Indecision!

      'Cott It

      Gray Suits on Browner Men

      The Cadillac

      The Inedible Orange

      Winona, Don't Tell Me That the Blues Are Dead

      Ladies' Lounge

      Strokin' Blues

      Blues with No Heart

      Lament

      Keys

      Working 'Lypso

      Transfer Tango

      Mother and Daughter of the Earth

      Well, I'll Be

      Shimmer

      Folly Brigade

      I Don't Want No Sad Affair

      Stand Up and Praise Him

      There's Good in Every Man

      Little 'Nilla

      The Nectar of the Gods

      Song of Peace

      Make You All Do Right

      Overtown Parable

      The Shrub's Approach to Haiti's Madness

      Riot Squad

      It's the Children That Make You Weep

      Give What the Children Need

      Gardener of Paradise

      Her Tears Buried Her World

      He's Keepin' Me

      Did I Touch You?

      Mother of the Earth

      Daughter of the Earth

      The Artist

      About the Author

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      Mother and Daughter of the Earth

      Personal Perceptions of the Homeless; the Unloved and the Loved; Men, Women, and Children; of the Young and the Old… in Verse and in Song

      Dianna Finn

      Copyright © 2023 Dianna Finn

      All rights reserved

      First Edition

      NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING

      320 Broad Street

      Red Bank, NJ 07701

      First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2023

      Please know this work is fiction, any characters, names, places or incidents are the product of the author’s imagination/experiences, etc. any resemblance to persons/events, dead/alive is mere coincidence.

      Cover Illustration by

      Louis Delsarte and Dianna Finn

      Initial illustration conception and photographs within this book by Dianna Finn

      Stowaway Haitien boy (Photo/Jon Kral (c) 1991 The Miami Herald

      ISBN 979-8-88763-675-7 (Paperback)

      ISBN 979-8-88763-676-4 (Digital)

      Printed in the United States of America

      Grateful acknowledgment to

      My Lord, Jesus, my inspiration.

      This book is dedicated to my mother, Viola K. Greene, who showed such faith in me; to my father, Philip E. Greene; and to Winston Foster, my beloved, who gives me confidence and enlarges my creativity.

      This book is dedicated to the absolute end of racism, prejudice, poverty, cruelty, and misunderstanding in this world. Please work to stop man's inhumanity to man. Support organizations working toward education, a fair judicial system, and those who suffer, fight, or prosecute discrimination daily.

      Overtown Overture

      Oh, apple pie must be for somebody else

      The American Dream got to weep by itself

      Lady Liberty, don't stand so tall, proud

      You all cry over stars and stripes

      But oppression makes no sound…

      The blues is a long, hungry cry.

      June, 1991

      Bicentennial Park

      Miami, Florida, USA

      Out of rage in the nighttime, I hear a new sigh. From men rising, I see a vignette, a variegated vision. Hear the music, someone singing Don't Be Frightened, Children, a melody part evening song, lullaby, a contemplation, part Liberty City nocturne, part Overtown overture.

      Lovers stroll the dark falsette and the star man cross steps. Who dances with the homeless on Symphony Street while young men step to the Poop Marche beat. The Star Man has a star-spangled conscience in place of a banner and tells sharp truths that cut like long knives.

      Blues Is a Long Hungry Cry

      Old blues will never die, but the blues is still a long, hungry cry. A winter danse, the frozen glance. A game. Who failed Johnny? The law. The circle is all he ever saw. C'moan, Tutti, moan some more. If you can find all the pieces and have some loose change, your daddy might find you under the bridge, nevertheless, your real Father always forgives. When the rainbow's down it's never any fun. (Miami is Mississippi in 1991). The composer cannot complete the Crown Minuet (chains have bound his hands, his heart.)

      You can pick 'em and moan 'em, while destitution speaks. Tomorrow's vision while bathing is nice and it's neat, but livin' ain't forgivin' when you livin' in the streets. Still

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