Hello Everyone, I am excited to share this piece with you because it has just been published this month of May 2015! I hope it it only the first of many. I hope you enjoy it.
Historical context: I wrote this piece for my creative writing class. It is a descriptive piece over an original work called "Afghan Girl" which is the photograph I have included below. We were expiramenting with show don't tell as well as giving our interpretation of it as well.
The historical background to the photograph is that this young girl pictured here is an Afghanistan refugee who fled with her siblings and her grandmother because of Russian bombings in her village where her parents were killed. They fled over land for a long time...I bellieve it was towards Pakistan. I try to explain some of her history through her appearance.
Ekphrasis on “Afghan Girl”
At a glance,
sits a child.
The second time
a young girl?
No—
Her eyes,
They show much more.
Golden rings inside Her blazing orbs
Reflect violence of gunfire;
Surrounded by ocean green
drowning cries
of terror
in
Her soul.
Distrustfully—
they glare,
As if to say—
How
do you dare?
like broken shards of glass;
piercing those
who come
too close.
To Her—
The white man behind the lens,
And the Russians
who made her an orphan,
bombed her home
And drove her out
are all one and the same.
Her torn shawl
like patterned sunsets—
closing a chapter in Her life,
silently echoing Her long and rough
journey.
Her wild hair is an untamable mess
of tangled brown threads.
Screaming —
Of a sudden, and quick escape.
Her clay colored skin
—hardened by harsh winds
and arid suns
is a desolate tale,
of a land
with no more tears.
Where is the child?
Where is—
that girl?
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