A blog of art, photography, food and writings.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

OCTOBER 17TH: WORLD DAY TO OVERCOME EXTREME POVERTY

I often think about those whose lives revolve around meeting the day's most basic needs: finding food. Let us think how we can help in even the smallest ways: donate food/time to shelters, help in soup kitchens, sponsor a needy family, donate money to causes that strive to ameliorate poverty and hunger.

To learn more about this subject, please visit:
http://www.oct17.org/site/

World Run Day to End Child Hunger: November 5, 2006
http://runday.com


HUNGER

by Sarojni Mehta-Lissak

Distended bellies
mimic the bloom
of pregnancy with
skin as taut as
drums. Yet
nothing
resides
inside--
nothing but the steady beat of hunger,
palpable in its rhythm, tangible in its pain.
So unlike that of life, which expands with
the comfort of food, their stomachs expand
slowly with air, leaving them half-grown, incomplete
and barely able to hang on. How can I, in good
conscience casually peruse my recipes for
tonight's dinner, in this place where
food is
plentiful
and
bellies
grow
only
from
abundance?
This is the mystery of fate...and...the inequity of surplus.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home