note to boko haram.....we need our girls.

 

 

We need our girls,

because we need whistles blown. Kites flown.

 

Grapes in distant vinyards grown.

Knees on a park bench shown. Corn dropped on that road of secrets

 

that trace the way home.

A dimmer moon, has shown, a diva's afternoon. A dominatrix

 

tender to springtimes flowering blooms. Need them at the

arctic coast, to be faithful, ranging south in winter.

 

Need them African, Asian, flaring tender in an interlocking tune;

to cover the drifts of mankind

 

tending fever in a child. Keeping sabaths holy;

avidly impassioned suggests

 

a poetess is near. Enduring and occuring. Rulers of  the

planet jewell-box, rattle.

 

Whole and decent, hidden and indecent, we need them

in all vibrations

 

even the ones held by a cord. Brown and gathering,

slave girl-hardened. The love of Romeo.

 

Colorfully patterned and woven

by tradition and doom.

 

We need our girls returned and

soon.

Reviews

[emmajoy]

Sadly superb. What a terrible topic however, such evil, would-be unthinkable goings-on. Yet somehow your heart and skill has created beauty in your highly descriptive writing of those darlings, those young girls who should be wandering life's garden, dana. Your phrasing, the choice of words, is second to none so very often, (one must be diplomatic): ' .. we need them in all vibrations.. '

[Matching Socks]

Such a powerful poem and message.
My heart breaks over and over when I think of these injustices done to women.
Your poem gives hope.

[bob, small b. aka invs]

i am extremely impressed by this poem. first of all, for its skill. its subtle rhymes. its wonderful use of language. and secondly i am impressed by its restraint. the topic is one that begs for shouting and cursing, anger and returned cruelty. but you present it calmly, sadly, and with the dignity and logic that is often missed. the missing girls are the missing potential of the world. you've said it much more elegantly than i am trying to now. thank you for some beautiful writing.

[W.k.kortas]

Writing on topical stuff is an awful stroll on the tightrope; you run the risk of constructing something that has the shelf life of organic milk, or writing some screeching polemic, or something that's too vague, too sloppy. This? No such worries. It grapples with the touchstone in question, but raises itself to a hosanna to all that is wonderful about womankind. It neither beats us around the head and shoulders with a message nor is some prissy lifeless thing; it's just damn fine writing.

[Tree]

We are doomed if we can not protect our own children, or when we fail, there is no outrage....
When we lost those 20 + angels on the east coast, something changed inside of me.

Thank you for illuminating, in only the way you can.

[K. Louis]

first, thanks for raising my awareness. I've been out of the loop, politics/war/media..it's all so much added garbage when trying to make a routine of getting up out of bed and living? so i've been staying away from it on purpose. At some point, I imagine, I'll be able to have an opinion but this is why i like poetry; this is why i like your poetry; always learn something new, and get brought back to earth. 'Haram' in arabic is something evil, sinful..idk what boko means, either way the name fits. Terrible news, Beautiful prayer Dana.