tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.comments2023-03-22T07:45:54.671-05:00100 Million GirlsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.post-64563738783128599432012-10-24T08:42:16.096-05:002012-10-24T08:42:16.096-05:00Hi Sheree,
I just came across 100 Million Girls ...Hi Sheree, <br /><br />I just came across 100 Million Girls on Twitter yesterday...THANK YOU so much for your work to bring attention to saving our baby girls!! Here is a poem I wrote a few years back when I thought about what I would like to leave the world if I had only 1 year to live: empowering words for girls around the world. I've self-published it into a picture book as well as a print poster to raise funds for global girls education & girls empowerment workshops. May we all work together for our girls of the world. <br /><br />Thank you, <br />Lola <br />...<br /><br />For My Girls<br /><br />My dear girls around the world<br />There are things I want to say.<br />I want to tell you why you’re special<br />And how you change the world today.<br /><br />My lovely girls around the world<br />There’s a beauty in you I see.<br />It’s not your face or what you wear<br />It’s the happy smile you share with me.<br /><br />My beautiful girls around the world<br />I sense a power in you.<br />It’s not your body or how you move<br />It’s the kind of things you do.<br /><br />My brilliant girls around the world<br />I love the words you speak.<br />Always know that you have a choice<br />To create how you think.<br /><br />My confident girls around the world<br />You are strong and tall.<br />Use your voice to express yourself<br />And move hearts, one and all.<br /><br />My sweet girls around the world<br />You have amazing hearts.<br />When you nurture and you love<br />You shine among the stars.<br /><br />My courageous girls around the world<br />Your fears give you fire.<br />You show there’s only room for dreams<br />And living your heart’s desires.<br /><br />My wise girls around the world<br />Live the nature in you.<br />Know that strength and grace from this Earth<br />Lie within you too.<br /><br />My magnificent girls around the world<br />You hold so much light.<br />Just by shining the truth in you<br />You expand the energy of life. <br /><br />My visionary girls around the world<br />You were born to lead.<br />Hold some hands and show the way<br />You’ll discover what you seek.<br /><br />My divine girls around the world<br />When all is said and done…<br />Just be happy and full of passion<br />Because being you is so much fun!<br /><br />Along this journey if you ever forget<br />Come back to these words and say<br />“I know I’m special in all that I am<br />And I change the world today”.<br /><br />Copyright 2010 Lola Tsai<br />www.oneglowinglife.com<br />Lola Tsaihttp://www.oneglowinglife.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.post-59183426492149155942012-08-31T12:10:32.400-05:002012-08-31T12:10:32.400-05:00Sad tragedy. I caution US that with the trend to t...Sad tragedy. I caution US that with the trend to treat abortion so casually that this type of lack oof concern for life will proliferate. May God work with India to stop this brutal ideology. And pray that America will come to the sense of stopping the killing of its own.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.post-68344479505581207962012-07-21T13:52:34.696-05:002012-07-21T13:52:34.696-05:00What a moving poem, Marissa! Thank you for sharin...What a moving poem, Marissa! Thank you for sharing. Of course, we now that the practice of infanticide does go back thousands of years, but we also know that there has been a huge increase in the last twenty years and that the increase began with the wealthy and the most highly educated. We also know that in the Indian, Vietnamese and I think Chinese populations in America and the UK, we are seeing unnaturally high male sex ratios as well, even higher than in their home countries. Even the leaders of these countries are getting worried about the severe shortage of marriage age women now and over the next 50 years. Demographers say even if we could stop all now, it will take until 2050 to right the shortage of women. Thanks again for sharing. Beautiful!Sheree Young https://www.blogger.com/profile/17735338050922122743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.post-32815104408842782992012-07-21T13:22:28.870-05:002012-07-21T13:22:28.870-05:00from Paucis Verbis blog:
Feeding Molek
The roc...from Paucis Verbis blog:<br /><br />Feeding Molek<br /><br /><br /><br />The rock still stands --<br />growth of bushes,<br />briers, and half-dead flowers<br />covering its north side -- <br />the south side shows<br />its grooved-smooth-gray-top,<br />this ragged side, chipped,<br />well-worn from use.<br /><br />~ * ~<br /><br /><br />For thousands of years<br />it was a place of<br />fresh-born scrub-bushes<br />and twisted-tiny<br />crawling roses. The rock<br /><br /><br />at noon, the hottest hour<br />of the day, so the it<br />would pull the seeping blood<br />deep into its skin.<br />Faster than room and space made -- <br />bodies slain and pushed aside -- <br />they lined up with,<br />the crying children<br />held tight to breast, shoulder, face -- <br />whispering, "remember the honor,<br />necessity. You must die."<br /><br />In this way they fed Molek<br />the blood of their children<br />for days-on-end, one-by-one.<br />Crying babies, death knell ringing<br />across a summer sky while<br />the hot-wet-smell of blood<br />filled the breeze, floated away.<br /><br />~ * ~<br /><br />One hundred, two hundred, three<br />thousand, four thousand, more -- <br />slaughtered into dark-gray silence,<br />quiet like the years<br />passing after them.<br />Two thousand years,<br />countless days, and<br />100-millions-girls later.<br /><br />~ * ~<br />They come to the rock,<br />clear the way for sacrifice -- <br />the blood, child blood, warm blood<br />splashes on the crawling roses.<br />The lines grow long, filled<br />with crying children<br />held tight to shoulder,<br />breast, face -- whispering,<br />"remember the honor, necessity.<br />You must die."<br /><br />In this way we feed Molek<br />the blood of our children<br />for days-on-end, one-by-one.<br />Crying babies, death-knell ringing<br />across a summer sky while<br />we pretend its an illusion -- <br />turn away, hide our eyes.<br /><br />The rock still stands --<br />the growth of bushes,<br />briers,<br />and half-dead flowers<br />covering its north side; <br />its south side chipped,<br />well-worn from use -- <br />waiting.<br /><br /><br />~July 2012<br /><br />This poem was written for the 100-million-girls website.<br /><br />Artwork Credit: Artwork by (c) Tirin, aka Tilde Carlsten. Please visit her blog (offering a variety of interesting topics and great artwork HERE.) Thanks and gratitude to Tirin for the use of this picture.<br /><br />Citations:<br /><br />Wikipedia contributors. "Moloch." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 11 Jul. 2012. Web. 21 Jul. 2012.<br /><br />Molek - explanation from Wikipedia: <br /><br />As a god worshipped by the Phoenicians and Canaanites, Moloch had associations with a particular kind of propitiatory child sacrifice by parents. Moloch figures in the Book of Deuteronomy and in the Book of Leviticus as a form of idolatry (Leviticus 18:21: “And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Moloch”). In the Hebrew Bible, Gehenna was initially where apostate Israelites and followers of various Baalim and Caananite gods, including Moloch, sacrificed their children by fire (2 Chr. 28:3, 33:6; Jer. 7:31, 19:2–6).<br /><br />Moloch has been used figuratively in English literature from John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) to Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1955), to refer to a person or thing demanding or requiring a very costly sacrifice.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02921880841376423040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.post-5095755025492084502012-07-13T11:43:38.992-05:002012-07-13T11:43:38.992-05:00The word "holocaust" is actually what go...The word "holocaust" is actually what got me inspired. I wasn't sure if I wholeheartedly agreed that you should call this issue "The Other Holocaust," not out of insensitivity to Jewish people, but because I wasn't sure "holocaust" was the exact right word (as a poet, I'm a big believer in choosing the absolute right word every time). <br /><br />So I turned to my dictionary, and then I started doing Ellarain'e Lockie's "Thesaurus is Not a Four-Letter Word" exercise, mapping out all of the different synonyms, and the synonyms of synonyms. Along the way, I realized my thesaurus (Random House Roget's College Thesaurus, 2000) literally did not have an entry for the word "genocide." That ultimately became the impetus for the poem: the way books and media ignore, erase, obfuscate. The way roles are minimized, the way ignorance perseveres.<br /><br />(Oh, and I ultimately decided that I did agree with your use of the word "holocaust.")Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.post-84437815706999786662012-07-10T22:30:35.925-05:002012-07-10T22:30:35.925-05:00Thank you, Allyson! I love the insights and power...Thank you, Allyson! I love the insights and power of your poetry. Do you have any commentary about this, how you came to this idea or the story behind the poem so to speak?Sheree Young https://www.blogger.com/profile/17735338050922122743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.post-14191666037353007292012-07-10T22:05:58.197-05:002012-07-10T22:05:58.197-05:00For Reference
I. My thesaurus doesn’t have an ent...For Reference<br /><br />I. My thesaurus doesn’t have an entry for “genocide.”<br /><br />Perhaps because some horrors are too strong for synonyms. Or perhaps because genocide<br />happens to other people, other nations, and Random House cares more about foreign book rights<br />than it does foreign people, so Americans don’t need more than one word for it. But remnants of<br />what might have been litter roads all over the world. Shells of potential, allowed little more than<br />a first breath, get slaughtered on sight, as though human life amounts to anything cheaper than<br />priceless.<br /><br />II. My dictionary pretends that American’s don’t have a role in this.<br /><br />As though we don’t commit violence against nation upon nation, that we don’t murder each<br />other, that we’re not driving this nation to suicide. PETA screams that meat is murder, but<br />in some countries, daughters don’t get the care afforded to animals bound for slaughter. In<br />America, we don’t care about children only allowed to live for a moment. Who get bludgeoned<br />like prizefighters who can defend themselves. Who get frozen like leftovers that nobody wants to<br />eat. Who get ignored like raisins in the sun—to wither, to explode, the outcome doesn’t matter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.post-54709842356072835132012-06-28T12:01:22.050-05:002012-06-28T12:01:22.050-05:00Thank you for your comment! Actually, we are talki...Thank you for your comment! Actually, we are talking about violations of human rights as well as discrimination. We still have a long way to go!Sheree Young https://www.blogger.com/profile/17735338050922122743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.post-23819416871753169042012-06-28T05:32:01.368-05:002012-06-28T05:32:01.368-05:00The thoughts and wishes of a free woman are with y...The thoughts and wishes of a free woman are with you in your struggle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.post-4880537674675252872012-06-22T13:14:39.701-05:002012-06-22T13:14:39.701-05:00I agree, Debra! The words jump off the page for m...I agree, Debra! The words jump off the page for me too!Sheree Young https://www.blogger.com/profile/17735338050922122743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.post-61851831075238008582012-06-22T13:13:15.296-05:002012-06-22T13:13:15.296-05:00Thank you, Debra! Yes, the feelings are so haunti...Thank you, Debra! Yes, the feelings are so haunting aren't they? The more I read by them, the more amazed I am!Sheree Young https://www.blogger.com/profile/17735338050922122743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.post-26081540177075048242012-06-22T10:25:43.588-05:002012-06-22T10:25:43.588-05:00I hardly noticed the ands. The poem as a whole was...I hardly noticed the ands. The poem as a whole was too moving to notice little things like that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.post-10820511239315935202012-06-22T10:20:50.673-05:002012-06-22T10:20:50.673-05:00Beautiful. You can feel the despair and desperatio...Beautiful. You can feel the despair and desperation to get out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.post-56300867010769679862012-06-12T16:24:05.936-05:002012-06-12T16:24:05.936-05:00Thank you, Robin. This is not my poem. This is wri...Thank you, Robin. This is not my poem. This is written by an Afghan woman. I do have poetry under The Poetry tab also.Sheree Young https://www.blogger.com/profile/17735338050922122743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.post-51132518163890681152012-06-12T15:34:21.879-05:002012-06-12T15:34:21.879-05:00The Poem conveys the emotion.
Might I suggest you ...The Poem conveys the emotion.<br />Might I suggest you take out all the 'ands' except for the final one?<br />To me it has more impact that way.<br />I wish you well with your aims.Robin Marchesihttp://robinmarchesi.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.post-55900979140241134782012-06-07T22:25:00.147-05:002012-06-07T22:25:00.147-05:00I know Moondustwriter, I am just amazed at their w...I know Moondustwriter, I am just amazed at their work. The haunting beauty that shines through is stunning.Sheree Young https://www.blogger.com/profile/17735338050922122743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2093127187902722601.post-69523525689111319762012-06-06T10:16:55.120-05:002012-06-06T10:16:55.120-05:00Beautiful work / a life lessonBeautiful work / a life lessonMoondustwriterhttp://moondustwriter.comnoreply@blogger.com