Shannon Joy Wazny is the current Featured Poet International for MusePie Press. She has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She has also been twice nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology.

She lives in the city of Winnipeg, in Canada. It is located on Treaty 1 territory.

Besides writing Shannon spends her time reading, practicing photography and creating art. She is driven to capture things of beauty or significance with photography or words. Shannon is intrigued and fascinated by current events. She strives to be informed so that she can communicate and advocate for the things she values and encourages all to use their voices however they can at this tipping point of history.

Shannon fervently believes in peace.

Shannon Joy Wazny

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Pressure

(Petrarchan Sonnet)

Compressed beneath the thumbs of billionaires
Our energy weak, flickers and wanes
Life empties our wallets, our veins
The poor must endure these imposed nightmares

How to add this and this and get to there
Each tomorrow a mountain inhumane
And meanwhile the "elites" toast with champagne
and post edicts from castles in the air

We must regain hope, turn back to the light
Muster our courage, wrestle the lies
And don't let them make this black, brown or white

We are many you need to realize
A union of souls who know what is right
What do you believe in enough to rise?