After much planning, Healing through Creativity 2006 started today. I volunteered in Sept 2005, to create with others, the website at www.healingthroughcreativity.org to promote the event on the web.
It has been a fantastic journey for myself and others. Though I live in another country, it has certainly turned my life upside down in ways I would never had guessed when it first started.
I have contributed to the event, an artwork "You Can" describing my story from a child of 10 and a half (see main site under Survivor Art Gallery). It has given me much pause in my life, to discover that over a period of 22 years (what the art work covers) , I have managed to move forward from a place that I thought would forever be forgotten. I wish to send a big thank you for all the people in my life that have aided me.
I have also donated poetry - "Touched", "Angels Garden" and "Little Girl Gone" for display along with other artists/performers/helpers who have contributed to the event.
I wish to send a big thank you to all that organised the event and put in many hours of behind the scenes work.
I wish also to personally thank the event organiser, George and family for much needed inspiration & help.
(((hugs)))
White Dove
Way up high
Where the sunlight sings
Flies a white dove;
Taking flight to the wings
The white dove soars
As she finds a cloud
She flies through it
Ever so proud
She loses a feather
It floats down still
It falls at the feet
Of a little girl; broken will
The girl looks up
And sees the white dove soar
She does not understand
She does but ignore
She takes the feather
Eyes covered in tears
Eyes being haunted
Eyes filled with fears
She tucks in the feather
Hiding it quickly away
It is hers forever
It is here today
For within this feather
Lies a promise of the dove
That forever and today
The girl has found internal love
For all the young girls who have been affected traumatically by childhood sexual abuse, here is my feather to you. May it give you continued inspiration to speak out and not remain quiet.
(((((hugs)))))
whitedove
2 comments:
The feather poem is a truly beautiful gift, thank you! I'm so proud of you and everyone involved in Healing Through Creativity. What an accomplishment! I wish I could be in WV to see it all in person. I'm glad I was able, at least, to participate in Jodi's "Show of Hands" project.
Keepers hope is that the young girls will be protected by those of us who speak out and raise awareness of the horrible things that happen to little girls.
For keepers, healing through creativity was the most effective way for us to find ourselves and the path we were meant to take.
peace and blessings,
keepers
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