The Deaf Child

For the Deaf Child, a poem/song

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!

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For the Deaf Child

A poem in honor of AVT-BS, DBC, dDeaf AND hearing people there . . .

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(drumming begins)

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Soldier On, March On, Forge On

For our dDeaf children, the Deaf Child 

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Soldier on, thy Deaf comrades

With thy Deaf Conscience purest 

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March on, onto the green hills in Virginia

to the Volt’s Summer Conference 

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Forge on, to fight only an arm

of the Giant Octopus Volt 

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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 

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March on, sign “loudly” and articulate well

Using interpreters and codas, our natural allies

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Forge On, with hearing and deaf parents

Who believe in the Deaf Child, first 

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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 

. . . 

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 

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March On, to many more Battle sites

with the people of Volt to wake them up 

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Forge on, show them the Book

Of our history and irrevocable bilingualism 

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Soldier On, March on, Forge On

With loving kindness for our Deaf Child 

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Soldier on, but don’t destroy the Volt soldiers

Love them as one of our sacred comrades 

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March on, toward Castle Volt

But don’t burn the castle down, cherish it 

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Forge on, make them our expert in teaching speech

Not on how to raise our Deaf Child holistically 

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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

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March on, for our dDeaf children of the Now

and the Deaf Child of the Future

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Forge on, for our dDeaf children

And for the Deaf Child within us . . .  

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Soldier On, March on, and Forge on! 

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Solider On! 

March On! 

Forge On!

. . . 

(drumming ceases) 

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Amen

July 26th, 2007 Posted by cnkatz at 01:01pm | Art Work of the DC Myth | 6 comments