Word-Dreamer: poetics: Malala Yousufzai: a verse tribute

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Malala Yousufzai: a verse tribute

Education activist Malala Yousufzai

A fourteen-year old blogger and outspoken activist for women's education rights was shot, as she was coming home from school, by the Taliban in Pakistan recently. See article here. I celebrate a young woman's courage, dignity and idealism.

I see Malala in the faces of all my young students.

Malala--
walking arm in arm,
deep stairway

6 comments:

awyn said...: When they begin silencing our children
with bullets

Words fail.

Thanks for this, Conrad.
The story, the image, the poem:
gut punch.

What a world we live in.; October 10, 2012 at 8:23 AM
Conrad DiDiodato said...: Thanks, Awyn

what a world, indeed!; October 10, 2012 at 8:43 AM
Andreas Gripp said...: well said, Conrad. thanks for posting and also for the fitting haiku.; October 10, 2012 at 9:13 AM
vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras) said...: Observation

See what

A world we live in, a world
We want no part of

But which remains
A world we made.; October 10, 2012 at 11:57 AM
Conrad DiDiodato said...: Thanks to you both, Andreas and Vassilis

Andreas, I've always felt a sort of restorative power in haiku

And Vassilis, your paradox stings.; October 10, 2012 at 1:32 PM
Mario Domínguez Parra said...: A beautiful poem, an excellent tribute to this corageous girl.

Best wishes.; October 12, 2012 at 3:09 AM