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MALALA, PAKISTAN'S SMALLEST HEROINE

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beautiful brave child
with your innocence
and daring
many brutal masks
you have helped
the world to remove
them from its eyes
you are more pure
than a Joan of Arc
of our modern time
you tower in your
small stature
and frightfully ignorant
brutal men now fear
the light you have shone
on their mindless deeds
the world now stands
as your champion
and you, ever still
your cause's steed
God's speed and loving light
to you 'Malala'
in a country of old bearded men
you reign as the purest form
of martyr who lived
and many a Goliath
should know his future fate............
(Oct. 26, 2012 230pm)

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Inspired by the little girl who stood up to the Taliban in Pakistan because she wanted to fight for every female child's right to go to school there and was subsequently shot by some of them trying to stop her crusade to encourage other little girls to go to school. Blessedly, God prevented those small minded uneducated men from carrying out their terrible deed and Malala lives and is recovering in a Hospital in England safe and sound. Now, I read that the bulk of the country of Pakistan is standing behind her and that gives the heart much encouragement for the success of Pakistan's girls' future indeed.
Though you will likely never read this poem of mine know that I send out to you much love and light Malala..............

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last updated 28 October 2012 - 3:15pm
©26 October 2012 - 6:37pm — palewingedpoetess
3 November 2012 - 12:09am — humanpulse
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Honorable it is and graceful

Honorable it is and graceful to, sympathetically, interact with a human issue in such an elegant style. We should be all concerned since “We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty”. By the way, I have introduced major amendments to what I wrote about the same issue.
Note: the quotation is from G. K. Chesterton , The prince of paradox, as he has been called.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton

4 November 2012 - 1:39am — palewingedpoetess
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Thank you Fahad for your kind words...............

and shared additional knowledge. Reading your poem inspired me to write of this young girl..........So you, in a sense must take some credit for being a secondary catalyst for me to write this......