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, September 17, 2012

"BE STILL" by Jackie L. Tajiri

"Be still and know that I am God,
Said the Mongoose to the Evil Serpent,
"Harm not the innocent,
Lest I devour thee,"
By this saying,
The Evil Serpent was startled!
Quick as lightening,
The Evil Serpent opened wide
Its savage jaws,
The Mongoose beheld its Enemy's venomous fangs,
But, lo!
The Mongoose was faster still,
Biting! Tearing! Stomping fiercely!
It was mammal versus reptile;
This day,
Triumph belonged to the Mongoose,
By the jaws of its opponent,
The Evil Serpent was dispatched
To the belly of its foe.
-Jackie L. Tajiri
August 12, 2012
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