Bloody Head Haiku For Malala Yousafzai Poem by Chen-ou Liu

At 11, Malala Yousafzai took on the Taliban by championing female education; at 13, she has blogged for the BBC, drawing the world's attention to the plight and cause of the people of Swat Valley. Yesterday, the Taliban answered this 14-year-old girl's courage with bullets, shooting her in the head and neck.


Swat Valley
under the blazing sun
Malala's bloody head


Note: Swat Valley means the land of waterfalls, an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan.