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Teen joins the Peace Chain

Friday, 29. May 2009, 02:52:31





When my young came home from school this afternoon,

and asked " mom are there any new interesting posts on Opera lately?",

I did direct her to read these posts that my dear friends Claude, Matthew and Zaphira posted .

All posts are either part of the Peace Chain ,

or about honesty :smile:


http://my.opera.com/holdowicz-claude/blog/about-peace-and-artists

http://my.opera.com/noah%20counte/blog/2009/05/25/peace-chain

http://my.opera.com/Zaphira/blog/2009/05/27/its-the-little-things


My teen was very much touched by all three posts.

Before she started her Friday's homework , she went to take a shower ...

Little I knew ,

that in two minutes she will be out in her pink bathrobe

and with her pink towel wrapped on her almost dry hair...

I was alarmed and I asked:

"what did you forget?"

She smiled and answered

" Nothing, I just wanted to put some of my thoughts in a poem" .

Here it is

(of course it was posted after her approval :smile: ) :



Shower

by Vaia a.k.a.greekgirl330



Drip drip drip

Weary eyes underlined,

With makeup she tried to hide behind.

Staring at her showerhead,

She cleans herself right before bed.



Scrub scrub scrub

She starts to clean

All the hate that she has seen.

Turns the hot water up high,

Adjusting with a slow long sigh.



Wash wash wash

She’s rubbing harder;

Relief slowly begins to barter;

And to sterilize from blood splatters

From three roadside bombs leaving 30-some battered.



Clean clean clean

The impurities from her skin

Because nothing matters that is within.

Racist slurs screamed down the hall;

Sexism behind office walls.



Rinse rinse rinse

All the blatant ignorance,

And those who claim they’re “on the fence.”

Those who don’t have an opinion for themselves,

Who pick up pre-made images off the shelves.



Rub rub rub

Out the war overseas,

The leaders doing as they please.

And of course the war back “home,”

The latter turning into a danger zone.



Clear clear clear

Of all the rape,

The crime scenes marked with yellow tape;

Drugs and alcohol, pimps and whores,

These are what make up our internal wars.



Drain drain drain

All the disease

Sixty people today died of HIV.

Away with the responses of fight and flight,

Countless children didn’t come home tonight.



Hate. Hate. Hate.

It’s just a four letter word;

Some say it lightly, some say it’s unheard.

No acceptance, no toleration.

This is what’s left of our beautiful nation.



Dry dry dry

Her salty tears,

And try to fight off all her fears.

Cleansed of today’s many sorrows,

She’ll be back again, the same time tomorrow.


:heart:Join the Peace Chain! Make a difference!:heart:








JurjenWeekend Chuckles , Paternity Test Optional

Comments

PainterWoman 29. May 2009, 03:11

This is an excellent poem. Angeliki you must be very proud.

edwardpiercy 29. May 2009, 03:15

I think Scott had a Peace Train entry also.


Please tell Vaio I liked her poem.


(But she shouldn't forget her anthropology!)

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 03:22

yes, Eddie,

Scott is part of the chain too! if you follow Claudes' link ,
all Opera members that joined so far are listed there! :smile:

"(But she shouldn't forget her anthropology!)"
Vaia says "it is in back on my mind! " :lol:

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 03:23

:o: thank you Pam I will let her know,
yes, I am :happy:

starree 29. May 2009, 03:34

I love it! What a great poem and wonderful message of peace before that :yes:

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 03:36

thanks Anne,
I will let her know,

Dacotah 29. May 2009, 03:56

Great post Angeliki.
Awesome poem.

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 04:00

:o: thanks Carol,

Vaia will be happy to hear you liked it!
she did read some of your beautiful poems in the past too!:heart:

Chas4 29. May 2009, 04:05

great poem

Dacotah 29. May 2009, 04:07

You are welcome Angeliki. I'm glad Vaia will be happy to hear that I like it. :heart:

:o: I hope she liked the ones she read.

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 04:08

thanks , I will let Vaia know

Dacotah 29. May 2009, 04:27

:heart:

gdare 29. May 2009, 04:41

She is very tallented. Usually, I have problems with understanding poems in language different than mine, I just can`t catch it sometimes. But her writing is so easy and words come by just like a talk, I got everything just from one reading *claps hands*

Arnekrilu 29. May 2009, 05:41

:angel: :heart:

Zaphira 29. May 2009, 06:49

Wow, Angeliki, I'm impressed!

Thanks for sharing your girl's poem here, she is a clever little one, that's for sure!

Have a great weekend! :heart:

I_ArtMan 29. May 2009, 07:15

vaia did very well with this... it has just the right amount of distaste for all the evils. :up:

i'll be very proud to add her to the chain, meli :heart: :happy:

and a :heart: for the young poet.

nepmak2000 29. May 2009, 08:27

I'm impressed by her rubbing.. huh, poem! Tell Vaia please, she's talented.



Women play such an important role when educated - for peace, although...



I am not always sure of what they are doing!

:hat: :chef: :drunk: :queen: Homer: Doh! banana monkey cow penguin bug wine :sing: :star: :heart:

holdowicz-claude 29. May 2009, 09:15

@Angeliki, this is an original post :up: Thank you :smile: GreekGirl330 is talented :wizard:
Also I discover thanks to you the Yes Peace Website:
http://www.yespeace.com/
And also this one:
http://www.peacepal.org/
What do you think about? :smile:

@nepmak: beautiful photo :up:

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 11:12

@ Darko,

:o: thanks

I guess having an immigrant mom makes her use simple language :smile:
I will give her the msg :smile:

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 11:14

@Arnekrilu,

:heart: thank you!
nice to see you here

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 11:17

@ Zaphira,
:o: thanks , she is a good person
have a great weekend too friend :heart:

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 11:20

@ meli :heart:,

thank you for very much for the heart warming message,
Vaia will be thrilled! she looks up to you meli and always admires your writing :smile:
:o: thanks

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 11:45

@ John,
thanks!
I will most definitely have her read your comment,
"rubbing" on paper is common in my household :lol:
Also,
post-it notes in my room with new words I come across,
note-pads for Vaia's writing in every room,
and Science and Political atricles every where by Yannis,
I guess our best friend is "paper".
No wonder we are very passionate on "recicle paper" :smile:


PS
I an an ex-Greek Language educator myself and by looking the picture above,
I am puzzled on what the forest teachers do as well! :lol:

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 11:51

@ Claude,

:smile: thank you!
My daughter is in High School now ,
an Academy on American/European History Studies,
she is passionate on fighting for peace,
and it is a delight seeing the new generation having more clear mind that we did on peace...
Before you know it Claude,
your two little angels will be involved too!

Thanks for encouraging me to participate in the Peace Chain :heart:

holdowicz-claude 29. May 2009, 12:18

You have a nice daughter Angelliki. Thank you :happy:

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 12:21

peace

wickedlizard 29. May 2009, 12:52

:yes: :heart:

kangnalu 29. May 2009, 13:59

:heart:
how adorable!
:angel:

edwardpiercy 29. May 2009, 19:17

I am highly surprised that the Peace Chain didn't pick "Peace Train" as their theme song. I mean, you just gotta have that one.

You know if there were one good explanation of what happened to me and my ex-girlfriend it would be that her life-song was "Peace Train" whereas being younger mine was more like "Masquerade" by Berlin. p:

nepmak2000 29. May 2009, 19:30

The first thing I did when living with Gaby and her kids was putting a clipboard on the wall !! Use a clipboard, far more efficient, particularly when it is an old schoolboard... You wipe out what's not of interest and... it saves our precious trees!! Haha!!
:yes:


flirt

Chas4 29. May 2009, 19:38



:smile:

edwardpiercy 29. May 2009, 19:42

They'll pry my Post-It-Notes out of my cold, dead fingers.

p:

Chas4 29. May 2009, 20:00

What color Post-It-Notes? p:

edwardpiercy 29. May 2009, 20:11

:lol: I still like the traditional yellow ones. :up:

Wulpen 29. May 2009, 20:16



Great post

nepmak2000 29. May 2009, 20:47

Still in hindsight one light touch of critique, if I may:
"Cleansed of today’s many sorrows,
She’ll be back again, the same time tomorrow."
If I understand this correctly (I am not too affluent in English) it says that "she" (a weeping woman) will be back tomorrow "the same", whereas I believe to must have read: "a new person tomorrow"?

We all and particularly the expert-writers visiting here should take up this poem and contribute to it to make it even stronger and even more powerful than it already is. I have read it a dozen times and really start to see the intense power and radiation of it!!
We should do something with this poem - it's simply great and worthwhile. A poem is/can be a heartbeat, a voice from the deep within. Vaia has put down some intriguing lines!!

:yes:

edwardpiercy 29. May 2009, 20:55

Here's one for your photobucket, Angeliki.













nepmak2000 29. May 2009, 20:59



ellinidata 29. May 2009, 21:13

@ Issy,
thank you my sweet friend :heart:

edwardpiercy 29. May 2009, 21:15





ellinidata 29. May 2009, 21:16

@kangnalu,
the adoable teen years... not fair that go away so soon..

thank you very much for the comment :smile:
Please visit again :smile:

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 21:19

Eddie,

I am sure Julie was an interesting woman,
however I strongly believe you always deserved much more than what she was willing to offer :heart:
two parallel trains that will never cross only can waive to each other :D

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 21:21

@ John,

I love the stories you add from your family life,
I think you did an excellent job with Gaby's kids :smile:

edwardpiercy 29. May 2009, 21:24

Didn't Einstein write something about that passing trains thing in his Theory of Relativily? p:


Thank you, my dear.

:heart:

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 21:26

Chuck,

for sure he is a thinker,
I see wonder in his eyes expression...I hope he found his own inner-peace.

I sure did....not something that came over night,
you will find out one day that in order to value only what is special ,
and worth holding on to,
you need to do lots of cleaning of the garbage we all pile up inside from infancy....
you will see that each age has it's rewards :smile:

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 21:28

Eddie,

"They'll pry my Post-It-Notes out of my cold, dead fingers."

:lol:
They'll pry my Post-It-Notes out of my bedroom walls p:

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 21:31

@ Chuck,
"What color Post-It-Notes?"

I like the yellow one too....
I also use pink for the new words I learn from Matthew a.k.a Noah, that's because his vocabulary it is for F* difficult ,memorizing it is usually more challenging of all but I am looking forward to it on a daily basis :smile:

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 21:34

@ Wulpen,

:o: thanks you! I missed you a great deal! *hugs*

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 21:43

@ John,
Hi this is Vaia :smile:
Basically I wanted to convey that she was cleansed for a fresh new start for the next day but all the stuff that she would hear during tomorrow would have the same effect on her as it had on the previous day, so she'd have to do it again the next night.

ellinidata 29. May 2009, 21:45

Thank you all for your kind words and feedback!<3 You all make me smile and your comments mean a lot to me.

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