Responses
personal experiences,
thoughts, and expressions
of a global community of
writers
My Voice Is
a barren desert
Heather
USA
Repetition
My voice is echoing echoing echoing
Cynthia Robertson
Port Townsend, WA
My Voice Is
My voice is an open door. You are welcome here.
Richard Beardsley
Gainesville Florida, USA
My Voice Is
My voice is quiet. You can see it in my eyes or feel it in the touch of my hand.
Barb Kerkhoff
Gainesville FL
My Voice Is
a single leaf,
that is both
the season
and the change itself,
a force of nature
expected
but never prepared for
Sylvia Clark
Kent, Ohio
My Voice stands for
for my human brethren
that have yet to find theirs.
For my siblings still in their closets
And those still forced to live in fear.
I will use my voice to stand for you.
Jacob Dudley
Rootstown, OH
My Voice
My voice was left behind
in the stone walls
of Washington National Cathedral
joining the voices
of Oberlin students and faculty
singing Mozart's Requiem
on May 10, 1970
in response
to the deaths
at Kent State,
Cambodia,
Viet Nam,
and all unwanted
wars.
Nancy Bick Clark
Newport, KY
I Want
I want the voices of the Black United Students (BUS) 1969-1970 from KSU to resound globally in student leadership and resilience in that not one of them was lost on May 4th due to their sensibilities in knowing not one Black student should show for the protest; instead they all survived and stayed alive!!
Dorcus Johnson
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
My Voice Is
My voice is quiet, unassuming, a whisper reaching through the dark, yearning to be heard.
Edward Wood
Akron, OH
My Voice Is
My voice stills the wind
Ann Marie
Connecticut
My Voice Is
a product of those I surround myself with.
Adam
Youngstown
My Voice Is
My voice is a quiet shadow awakened by the sun.
Marla Weisberg
Beachwood, Ohio
Repetition
so many wars
so little peace
so many flags
so much to learn
Chris Flynn
Clermont
My Voice Is
My voice is a wind and blue in the heart of humanity to heal your pain that bleeding, my voice is breezing peace in every innocent victim
Erkut Tokman
İstanbul, Turkey
My Voice Is
My voice is the hum of highway traffic, loud and constant
Jordan
Oberlin
My Voice stands for
My voice will serve as beacon/ for those marginalized. My voice/ will help right the wrongs created by society/ My voice does not bend, bow,/ but break for those who are lost in this pandemic./ Students, you matter./ Let my voice be the light you so desperately crave.
Anthony Matejcic
Mentor, OH
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the film crews working 20+ hours a day
7 days a week
Facing abuses
Physical and emotional
So they can feed their families.
Peter
Cleveland
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the students who feel worthless because of a standardized test score that inaccurately measured their knowledge. You are worthy and more than a test score.
Bailey McKarns
Carrollton, OH
My Voice Is
my voice is a ray of sunshine/ using its light and warmth to cover the world/ my voice is the birds song/ offering harmony to those who care to listen/ my voice tells my story/ to teach/ to comfort/ to sing/ but my voice is not the only voice/ my voice encourages the voices of others
krista harland
north canton ohio
My Voice Is
My voice is hidden just beneath the water. / My voice is waves crashing over pointed rocks.
Madi
Pittsburgh
My Voice Is
My Voice is a quiet church mouse, hiding in the walls.
My Voice is a black line on an empty white page.
Madison
Kent, Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice, is our voice. A chorus in unity ~ May Peace Prevail on Earth.
Lisa Huber
Roxbury, CT
My Voice Is
My voice is a mother
guarding children like
a sheet spread over
narcissus buds for
overnight April frost.
Kerry Trautman
Findlay, OH, USA
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for every person who loses their love ones.
Rocio Hernandez
Milpitas California
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for every person who loses their love ones.
Rocio Hernandez
Milpitas California
I Want
I want the people fly high without any damage in this world
KARINA OROZCO
milpitas california
My Voice Is
My voice is a stream run around the world.
Dao Tran
Milpitas
My Voice Is
My voice is a mold, stretching out of the darkness
Lyudmilla
Vilnius, Lithuania
I Want
I WANT A END TO MOTHERS SUFFERING UNLESS COUNTRY TAKE CARE ABOUT THIS FACT THERE CAN BE NO PROGRESS IN COMING GENERATION
SUKARMA RANI THAREJA
AHMEDABAD,GUJRAT,INDIA
My Voice Is
My voice is barely a whisper in a universe of noise. But I shall not be silent.
William J. Anderson
Champlin, MN
My Voice stands for
every cry that has fallen to deaf ears
Tatiana
Miami, FL
My Voice Is
My voice is wind
4 th G- Old trail school
My Voice
my voice says, how much more beautifully broken can we become?
brenda sparks
coburg, oregon, usa
My Voice stands for
my voice stands for the earths existence
brenda sparks
coburg, oregon, usa
I Want
for mothers to stop crying about their childrens futures on an earth expired.
Brenda Sparks
Coburg, Oregon, USA
Give & Take
In giving of ourselves, we take from the world its shroud of pain.
Ken McAllister
Tucson, Arizona, USA
I Want
a strong mindset without fear of failure.
Yuka
Japan
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for a future,
where people's dreams will not be shatterd,
with the ruthless cliché: "life isn't the movies".
My voice stands for that indefinite time,
where everyone,
despite their color, and race and gender,
can raise their voices Olympus high,
and live out their life freely,
without shattering at the
sight of crude reality.
Michelle Perera
Sri Lanka
Give & Take
Lord, take back these stereotypes
that sadly our own kind made ,
do not let us be trapped in our own illusions,
of color and race and gender,
and give us back our lost peace and unity.
This Garden of Eden You've handed over to us,
of which we failed as a gardener,
forgive our ignorant souls,
and implant peace upon us again.
Michelle Perera
Sri Lanka
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the mother who weeped
over the still body of the soldier boy
whose gold coffin was buried with empty salute,
and for the black girl who lost his father
over a fight not anyone knows - for he was black.
my voice stands to pity
the folly crowds
who exploit stereotypes
and exploit the peace.
Michelle Perera
Sri Lanka
My Voice Is
My voice is a poultice for the pain you carry.
Angela Finn
Kent, Ohio
Give & Take
take back the virus of greed and give us fresh ocean wave that bring us to meet the octopus
Chihlan Lu
NY, NY
I Want
I want to live in a world filled with compassion and thoughtfulness.
Deidre
Cleveland, OH
My Voice Is
My Voice is:
Time Peace Blessed America
Seconds float
Serene Peace
around Clock Wise
Whence Spring Minutes
simmer Summer Hours
Fall onto United States
Thanksgiving
communal bounty
Where WE Winter
HeartBeat Family
Holiday Greetings.
David Lester Young
Austin, Texas
Give & Take
A declaration of mankind: give and take, no heart beats alone
Benjamin
Cleveland, Ohio
My Voice Is
A roaring riptide in an ocean of change
Austin Monigold
New Philadelphia, Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for any person who feels less than
Madelynn Jessberger
Kent, Ohio
My Voice Is
the sunshine on the mountain, My voice is a new day, My voice is a new way, My voice is a bird in the sky, no one can take the freedom away of my voice.
Raghav Sharma
INDIA
My Voice Is
My voice is a string of pearls that never ends
RebeccaVujanov
Kent,Ohio
My Voice
My voice cries out for the weary,
For those tortured by hate and destruction.
My voice comforts those who long for a kind word and the appreciation they deserve.
My voice advocates for those who can't speak for themselves,
Even if I stand alone
My voice is a sword, cutting through lies.
My voice is an architect, constantly building and encouraging.
I am my voice.
Grace Koch
Delaware
Give & Take
I want the purple heart I wear to go away, held my head high, a silent concert of valor, while wounded by the draw, of blood that circulated, thru shared organs, willed by that half brain. I want a harmony band, gentle soothing abundant gestures of drifting clouds
Victoria L. Buck
Athens, Ohio
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the work of advocates,
The sweat of laborers.
The tears of lonely children.
My voice stands for endangered species,
The needs of our planet-home,
For peace among the cultures of the globe.
Samantha Terrell
New York
Give & Take
Gather your bullets and melt them with love
Josh Hurand
Tucson, AZ
I Want
to take you in my arms, friend. Hold you
so you'll never feel alone again.
January Gill O'Neil
Beverly, MA
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for a more understanding future. My voice stands for a future where Muslims, blacks, Mexicans, the LGBTQ+ community, and anyone who has faced oppression can wake up feeling safe and equal. My voice stands for a world without war, a world without race, and a world where humanity cares more about others than about themselves.
Jillian Cleland
USA
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for a more understanding future. My voice stands for a future where Muslims, blacks, Mexicans, the LGBTQ+ community, the disabled, and anyone who has faced oppression can wake up feeling safe and equal. My voice stands for a world without war, a world without race, and a world where humanity cares more about others and than about themselves.
Jillian Cleland
USA
My Voice Is
My voice is a particle of sand, overlooked and lost in the motions
Fred
elsmere
My Voice
My voice winds up the stalk of the bright yellow sunflower
seeking the sun upon me
to illuminate
a truth
I am here now
You are also here
Together we can create beauty
Climb the stalk
reach the light
blossom
Lisa Falk
Tucson, AZ
My Voice
dances on the dawn of peace.
Rebecca Shuman
Green Valley AZ
My Voice stands for
Working towards a future of no more killing and nonviolence for our fragile planet.
Thomas A. Fee
Freehold, NJ
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for true equality. Equality for those who know no support. My voice stands for the voiceless
Missy fontana
Warren Michigan usa
My Voice Is
Strength across generations to reveal clarity and sprit
Joanne Gitto
Canton ohio
My Voice stands for
the peace of the ancestors, the strength of the mothers and fathers, and the innocence of the children.
Shannon
Kildare, Ireland
Give & Take
“Take back that keen sorrow and give our baffled souls the reach to mourn no more.”
Ned Madden
San Clemente, Calif.
My Voice Is
My voice shudders to say
The things that were in play
In the mind of my student
Who thought it was prudent
To take his life away
That left me in dismay
My voice is his voice
His voice prays for justice
For a world without guns
For a peace second to none
Anonymous
Anonymous
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the right to be safeguarded from harm, of all kinds
Ciara Sheehan
Ireland
My Voice Is
My voice is like a daffodil
Arriving to defy the bleak and stoic sky
To challenge the very soil that gave it life, that still holds its roots
Slowly, it begins to unfurl each petal
Until - all at once - its inner self is on display
In all its brazen beauty
You do not have to admire it
But you cannot ignore it.
It boldly raises its head to ask with the innocence of new hope:
What if
Bethany English Sava
Tallmadge, OH
I Want
I want my voice to speak for those who don't know what to say
Julia Stoll
Buffalo
My Voice
My voice; release the sound, the vibration of my soul, to love, to heal, to mend our world.
Laurean Kile
Monongahela, PA
I Want
I want us all to bloom like wildflowers.
elizabeth
Ohio
Give & Take
Take our fears and insecurities and transmogrify their fierce energy, and give them back to us as courage and protective instincts.
Janice Gerda
Cleveland, Ohio
My Voice Is
My voice is the wind in the trees, like whispers whisking by until Mother Nature's full fury is unleashed.
Katherine
Arizona
I Want
I want everyone to be looked at and treated equally.
Bob Camry
United States of America
My Voice
My voice fights. My voice serves.
Ria
USA
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the peaceful bliss we all deserve.
Suzanne Roberts
Miami, Florida
Give & Take
Take your hurried thoughtless actions and return to a state of being, give meaning to each step, each breath, each moment. Live keenly for all our lives to flourish.
Danielle Miller
Harvard, Massachusetts,USA
Give & Take
Take back our endless fear spurring needless hate and violence and give us endless faith, hope and love in humanity.
Samantha Poole
Copley
My Voice
Prays for a world of love and compassion
Ev
Texas
My Voice
My voice for peace, beams out as gently, as the rays from the golden sun
Yvonne PhelpsCollins
O’Fallon, Illinois
I Want
Trans rights
Bob
Cleveland
I Want
I want us to NOT sin by silence, when we should PROTEST against injustice, tyranny and oppression! We must speak to right the wrongs of many !
David A Hancock Alumni 1968
Chesterland Ohio
I Want
I want someone, anyone, everyone to take a sharp knife, (pocket, steak or Bowie, nature doesn't care) and carve away at the tree of hate until nothing is left save for splinters to ignite a huge bonfire, viewable from outer space, and dedicate it to a world of diversity, acceptance, opportunity and, above all, love for one another.
Jan H. Kennedy (class of 1970)
Dellroy, Ohio
My Voice
shines a beam on the silver lining. My voice finds the goodness, the sweetness, the glee.
Jaclyn Garver
Fort Wayne, Ind.
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for those who have lost loved ones to the abyss of mass incarceration.
Adrian
Ohio
My Voice Is
Mother Nature's roar
Hallie
Pittsburgh
My Voice Is
My voice is a newborn Phoenix rising from the ashes of yesterday’s learning.
Tracy Ahern Owen
Katy, TX
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for May 4 torn from life transformed from happy days to holy moments.
Dolores Pinchot
Ohio
My Voice Is
is a clanging gong to remind others I am still here.
Kelli A. Brickman
Chardon, OH
My Voice stands for
Peace! Peace is more than the absence or threat of war; there is no Peace without the obliteration of Tyranny.
Dr. Carlton R. McHargh
Tuscaloosa, AL
My Voice Is
My voice is the loudest voice when joined with other voices shouting, singing and whispering for peace.
Barbara Murphy
Florida
My Voice
My voice shouts. My voice fights.
My voice stands for those whose voices are silenced.
I want people to care about others.
Take back the greed and give us endless generosity.
Let's stop the mantra "me, me, me".
Bobbie Szabo
Chagrin Falls, Ohio
My Voice
My Voice is a PURPLE burst of morning skyline spreading out above us all at dawn.
My Voice is a mountaintop of fresh LAVENDER flowers covering us all in it's most intoxicating, soothing scent.
My Voice represents ALL the GIGGLES available to humanity to rise above the Covid-19 Pandemic and defeat it communally.
My Voice HEALS! My Voice BLASTS around our globe!
I want the renewed OZONE to fill all earthly creation; resetting it to manufacturer's warranty specifications!
I want educators and all essential personnel to know their personal and collective WORTH AND VALUE that BRILLIANTLY light the globe!
Take back all earthly failures humanity created across time in exchange for our communal resilience and well-being sprouted as a gigantic global BOUQUET fragrant and intoxicating to all!
My Voice is globally resonant as gigantic, beautiful, BUBBLES iridescently encircling us all with PEACE, LOVE, AND JOY FOREVER!!!
Dorcus Johnson
Earth
My Voice stands for
the earth and all creations that cannot speak for themselves
Megan Haftl
Pittsburgh, PA
Give & Take
Take away confusion and give us wisdom.
Robert E Kelley
Dallas, TX
My Voice
My voice beckons but may be unheard!
Robert E. Kelley
Dallas, TX
My Voice stands for
My voice stands for the "Jungle Gym" on the playground, may it not be crushed or bent from the tanks no more.
Scott Swan
Kent, OH
My Voice
My voice is not the loudest or the softest but it is just as important.
Jaynell Nicholson
Pittsburgh, PA
I Want
I want that everyone stay home and the loss never happens.
keithomas
akronohiounidedstatesof america
Repetition
I don't have an answer to any prompt, but I do have a stanza related to May 4th.
The Governor was running for re-election
He called out the National Guard
Boys and men with little direction
And then there were deaths in our backyard.
Ruth Moore
Cuyahoga Falls, OH born and raised; now Huntington Woods Michigan
My Voice
My voice encourages you to always be your best.
Linda
Randolph, OH
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