Name: Lynetta(Jones, MOTHER of Jim Jones)
Duration: P00H01M51S
Description: This is the second piece from my Women In The Shadows trio. These three poems are written from the viewpoint of women from modern American history.

Lynetta(Jones, MOTHER of Jim Jones)

from The Obscene Gravity Of Silence by Paulie Lipman

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This is the second piece from my Women In The Shadows trio. These three poems are written from the viewpoint of women from modern American history.

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I molded with my fumbling art, a young child’s soft and yielding heart
–Lynetta Jones

I never had much use
for the bible

I never saw God in there
just a dog eared relic that my husband
clung to by the dead light
of our radio
I
witnessed the Lord and his works nowhere
but in our boy

God gave us the clay
but I
carved his heart

No one ever bothered
to notice the soft, kind sculpture in his chest
just pointed to the dark corners, blackened
by kiln fire

You try to tell me
that Jesus was free of soot
after his 3 days in the pit and I
will laugh and envy you
your ignorance

Jim
may have groveled in the sins of this life
but, like Solomon
his great deeds far outweigh
his trespasses
my son gathered unto him
the animals, children, criminal, and infirmed
and led us, eyes open
into Paradise

Scripture
is sifted from the ash
of martyrs

The only things we left behind
were our bodies, this unforgiving world
and
a fist sized piece of clay
Inscribed on its husk,
our final testament
and from its black, kiln fired cracks
Eden
has bloomed

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from The Obscene Gravity Of Silence, released March 15, 2011

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Paulie Lipman Denver, Colorado

Paulie Lipman has been a part of 8 Denver National Slam Teams(including '04's second place and '06's national champions). His work has appeared in The Legendary, Borderline, and the Write Bloody anthology: The Good Things About America.

In addition to Spoken Word, Pauile is also a musician/composer and is available for hire for commercial/video game/soundtrack work. ... more