My Prospective thus far......

Today I see a common thread happenning in my blog posts. The women and men I have selected have views that are strong, clear and sensitive. Though they are from different times in history, they seem to be saying the same words. Rising above and having their identities challenged. They all are saying they have a voice and it should be somewhere in history. All of the writer's whether poems or songs, have a strong voice. The flow is better than I expected. Though, the selections are in wrong order, I can feel the flow. I wanted variety and Im glad it is there for me. I hope my audience can clearly see this. The metaphors are not as hard to understand as I anticipated and im happy about this. There is a solid sensitive voice here and that is also my goal. I feel that Akhmatova is a good strong beginning. Leningrad was a huge awakenning to me, and I feel this is a good place to begin , though, its quite heavy. To ask someone to read with an open mind is too difficult for me so I began with a heavy tone. Sorrow is also present and I feel all women and men have sorrow. Specifically, I wanted women to approach this piece with the reassurance they could survive anything in life, together. At least leave with an understanding of a sense of togetherness. The men in this piece have respect and I will not put in any pieces of anger from men. This is definately a place of peace in knowing we are not alone and that theme to me , is wonderful. The sadness is there also and im happy about that because we can never understand if we dont open up to that sadness. The truth is inside these pieces also but if you are not open to the idea of truth? well...then you are without it.