Day 23 of Blogging from A to Z. Today’s letter is W
W is for Words Well Written
the meekest takes pen
in hand – swords beware their steel
the well written word
© Perle Champion
As a citizen of the U.S., I appreciate my right to say and write what I choose. In this and many countries of the West, we needn’t fear being jailed for something as simple as a poem.
Many countries in the world still jail and or execute dissident writers. 
Follow the link to a list of writers imprisoned for writing their truths.
- Kazakhstan – The Poet journalist and activist Aron Atabek has been in prison since 2007 and has spent much of his incarceration in solitary confinement.
- China – Liu Xia is a poet, artist, and founding member of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre. She has been held in her Beijing apartment without access to phones, internet, doctors of her choice, or visitors
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/21/national-poetry-day-dissident-poets-pen
Perle Champion 