This is a poem/song I created in honor of today and tomorrow’s events in Virginia-
Please read the poem/song metaphorically . . .
I will do the ASL (with captions and maybe voice) version when the protest in Virginia is over. Please feel free to sign this marching song in ASL or/and English/Voice, whatever pleases you. DO it with loving kindness.
Share! Empower! with Love!
****************
For the Deaf Child
A poem in honor of AVT-BS, DBC, dDeaf AND hearing people there . . .
. . .
(drumming begins)
. . .
Soldier On, March On, Forge On
For our dDeaf children, the Deaf Child
. . .
Soldier on, thy Deaf comrades
With thy Deaf Conscience purest
. . .
March on, onto the green hills in Virginia
to the Volt’s Summer Conference
. . .
Forge on, to fight only an arm
of the Giant Octopus Volt
. . .
Soldier On, March On, Forge On
For our dDeaf children, the Deaf Child
. . .
Soldier on, to awake the slumbering Giant
of the General Public about Castle Volt
. . .
March on, sign “loudly” and articulate well
Using interpreters and codas, our natural allies
. . .
Forge On, with hearing and deaf parents
Who believe in the Deaf Child, first
. . .
Soldier On, March On, Forge On
For our deaf children, the Deaf Child
. . .
Solider on, today’s battle won or lost? no matter
We have just begun a War against Octopus Volt
. . .
March on, to Volta Bureau in Georgetown
Another arm, recruiting soldiers from nearby
. . .Â
Forge On, against National Geographic Magazine
Another arm, refusing to do an article on the Deaf.
. . .
Soldier On, March On, Forge On
With loving kindness for our Deaf Child
. . .
Soldier On, with loving kindness
To make them realize Language comes first
. . .
March On, to many more Battle sites
with the people of Volt to wake them up
. . .
Forge on, show them the Book
Of our history and irrevocable bilingualism
. . .
Soldier On, March on, Forge On
With loving kindness for our Deaf Child
. . .
Soldier on, but don’t destroy the Volt soldiers
Love them as one of our sacred comrades
. . .
March on, toward Castle Volt
But don’t burn the castle down, cherish it
. . .
Forge on, make them our expert in teaching speech
Not on how to raise our Deaf Child holistically
. . .
Soldier on, March On, Forge On
For our dDeaf children, the Deaf Child
. . .
Soldier on, make them JOIN US in the War
To liberate the minds and souls our deaf children
. . .
March on, for our dDeaf children of the Now
and the Deaf Child of the Future
. . .
Forge on, for our dDeaf children
And for the Deaf Child within us . . .
. . .
Soldier On, March on, and Forge on!
. . .
Solider On!
March On!
Forge On!
. . .
(drumming ceases)
. . .
Amen
Clip Title: The Big Bang - 5:30 minutes long.
This is the first videoclip, revised the second time, of the Deaf Child Mythology signed by Charles Katz. The blue-tinted word “YouTube” under the window is the link to the Deaf Child channel at YouTube for those who can’t download and play the video from the videoserver.us link.
This first vidclip (and the Deaf Child Mythology) is posted in heart-felt dedication to all dDeaf people who lived in the past, living in the present, and will live in the future.

For those who can’t download above, here is the link to youtube video
YouTube
The image below is from the Karen Cadenhead scroll on the myth. In future posts, images from several scrolls made by students in college courses using the myth to study deaf history will be used.
