THE CHILD SPEAKS

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.174-1617.1986.tb00152.x
• Published date: 01 December 1986
• Date: 01 December 1986

II

A

poem is a peek into

a

person’s Being.

A

child’s poem offers us the rare

opportunity to see the feelings and concerns of a child, growing and trying to

adapt to a fast moving, chaotic world.

Permission

to

publish has been obtained from the author.

The reader is invited to provide the child whose poems appear with some

feedback. Such comments should be mailed to the editor who will forward them to

the author.

Finally,

if

you know

of

any children who may want to send their poems to the

Review, please encourage them and send them to the editor, at the following

address:

1217

Shadybrook Drive, Beverly Hills, California

90210.

THE CHILD SPEAKS

EDITOR

See

Silence

See a smile behind a frown

See an up above a down

See a good in back

of

a bad

See a happy inside a sad

See the rainbow over the rain

See the love after the pain

By:

Julianna Goodman, age

11

Silence is the moon,

Glistening on a Winter’s Eve.

Silence is the butterfly,

Gliding through the late day breeze,

Warming a man and a woman’s heart.

Silence is the wise old owl,

Searching through the midnite dark.

By:

Julianna Goodman, age

11

105

CONCILIATION COURTS REVIEWIVOLUME

24,

NUMBER ZIDECEMBER

1986