Description:
An immersive reading of excerpts from ‘Three Thoughts’ by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson with reflection on marginalization, the call to healthcare, courage and facing dragons.
Work:
experts from Three Thoughts’ by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
"Who dares stand forth?" the monarch cried,
"Amid the throng, and dare to give
Their aid, and bid this wretch to live?
I pledge my faith and crown beside,
A woeful plight, a sorry sight,
This outcast from all God-given grace.
What, ho! in all, no friendly face,
No helping hand to stay his plight?
St. Peter's name be pledged for aye,
The man's accursed, that is true;
But ho, he suffers. None of you
Will mercy show, or pity sigh?"
Strong men drew back, and lordly train
Did slowly file from monarch's look,
Whose lips curled scorn. But from a nook
A voice cried out, "Though he has slain
That which I loved the best on earth,
Yet will I tend him till he dies,
I can be brave." A woman's eyes
Gazed fearlessly into his own.
References
Violets and Other Tales: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18713/18713-h/18713-h.htm#LEGEND_OF_THE_NEWSPAPER
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/alice-moore-dunbar-nelson
https://www.aafp.org/about/policies/all/incarceration.html
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet: https://kbachuntitled.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/rainer-maria-rilke-letters-to-a-young-poet.pdf
