These are the creative expressions of the individuals here at the Lincoln Park Community Shelter. Guests have submitted art ranging from poetry to drawings, creative-nonfiction to photography. Guests have chosen to share this work with the larger LPCS community as a way of expressing their unique and diverse perspectives.

By John

Ode to the Mighty Pen

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Without the pen, most people's thoughts would be lost forever.

Without the pen, much knowledge would never be conveyed.

Some people might never know how much they are loved were it not for the pen, for it is much easier for some people to put their emotions on paper than to utter the words of love.

The pen can be a tool to lift the spirit, but it can also be a tool of destruction in the hands of an evil heart.

Many a good man has been brought down by the end of a pen, his reputation whittled away with every stroke.

Wars have been declared at the end of a pen, leading to the extinction of entire nations.

The deaths of the guilty emanate from the pen as the judge touches his pen to the death warrant.

The record of who we are would never be known, if not for the pen.

The pen makes it possible for us to reveal to future generations that we were here, that our lives mattered. Our births, our baptisms, our daily diaries, even our deaths, are all recorded for future generations to get to know us as individuals and as a people, because of the mighty pen.

The pen is indeed mightier than the sword.

By Jude

April 2008 Featured Art

*Please note: All featured artwork was submitted on a voluntary basis. The Lincoln Park Community Shelter does not necessarily endorse the views represented here.

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