My Poem Published in CityWatch Los Angeles Newspaper 2023



"MARY ANN WRIGHT — SAINT OF THE POOR"
by Judy Joy Jones


Mother Mary Ann Wright
Saint of the Poor
slept sitting up all night
so she could feel
the suffering
of the homeless
all over earth’s shores

Hearing God’s call
to take blankets
food and clothes
to the homeless
on the streets
in the darkest nights
Mary Ann Wright did go

How many souls
she fed and clothed
the world will never know
but her love for the poor
lives on through eternity
and her saint’s halo
forever glows

Mother Mary Ann Wright
Saint of the Poor
sheltering the homeless
in her loving arms
she was the mother
they had never known
sent by God alone


c jj 2017




Published in CityWatch Los Angeles Newspaper at link below;
        Mother Mary Ann Wright Poem by Judy Joy Jones in CityWatch Los Angeles Newspaper