MISSION STATEMENT

SILENT VOICES SPEAK started out as Silent Voices: A Writer’s Workshop, as the first group at the drop-in center at the Broadway location of Community Counseling Centers of Chicago, whose purpose is to empower it’s attendees to form and attend their own groups.

We have branched out as an independent entity. We are silent no more. We say yes to the creative possibilities of life & art...

The mission of SILENT VOICES SPEAK is to give a voice to people who are disenfranchised. Many of the participants in SILENT VOICES SPEAK are also visual and/or performing artists.

Membership is open to all.
Send submissions to lizhipwell@gmail.com.

Monday, July 2, 2012

NATURE'S SWEET LAMENT by Jackie Tajiri

Rain forests weep,
The dolphin lost its smile,
Honeybees have shed their sweetness,
Howler monkeys howl a lament,
The Earth moans and sighs
Vanishing creatures
Too numerous to calculate,
Bid their farewell;
Are we humans not one species
In a sea of many?

 In the canopy,
The echo of trees mourning
The death of their dear loved ones,
Ascends.
-Jackie
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