In Honor of International Women's Day
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| By Diann L. Neu |
Tiny girl child
Tiny girl child born in the world wind
Blow gentle to a future without excuses
Let the plant from which your perfect
Perfect pink blossom glows – Grow
to towering tree –legs strong- global
arms spread- to carry you softly club-
protected, sheltered, loved, far beyond
the soul-slashing slice of scorpion sting
Shakira – Subservience - Shame,
smashed shackle to snipped gossamer
string – All - Begone from you forever
Tiny girl child born in the world wind
Grow to run calm fertile fields fragrant
With the trample of mothers gone under
Let the string of images begin in this new
Unfettered future – jungle to city – desert
to arctic cap -blow gentle, blow strong this
Future without excuse.
Tiny girl child receiver and giver
Of the very bread of life – Live in
the knead of this newly born day
Free
