“Poetry. It’s better than war!” Michael Rothenberg, cofounder of 100,000 Poets (and friends) for Change
“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a [woman or] man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he [or she] sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” —Robert F. Kennedy South Africa, 1966
Today, under the banner of 100,000 Poets (and friends) for Change (100TPC), people the world over are gathered to stand up and stand together for PEACE, SUSTAINABILITY and SOCIAL JUSTICE.
Think on this when you are tempted to lose all hope for our species. Remember that—not just today, but everyday—there are ripples and waves and tsunamis of faith and courage crossing borders in the form of poetry, stories, art, music, friendships and other acts of heroism. Hang tough. And do join with us—The Bardo Group Beguines—today to share your own creative work and to enjoy the work of others. All are welcome no matter where in the world you live.
POST YOUR WORK HERE TODAY
TO SHARE YOUR POEMS, ART, PHOTOGRAPHY AND MUSIC VIDEOS FOR OUR “LIVE” VIRTUAL 100TPC TODAY, PLEASE USE MISTERLINKY FOR URL LINKS. JUST CLICK ON THE ICON BELOW. YOU CAN ALSO SIMPLY PASTE YOUR COMPLETE WORK OR THE URL TO IT INTO THE COMMENTS SECTION.
REMEMBER THE THEMES ARE PEACE, SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.
To read shared work see the comments section and click on Mister Linky. Enjoy!
On behalf of Michael Dickel—our World-Class Master of Ceremonies—
and the rest of The Bardo Group Beguines,
and in the spirit of peace, love (respect) and community,
—Jamie Dedes
Founding and Managing Editor, The BeZine
Reblogged this on Jordy’s Streamings.
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We’re just getting started on The BeZine 100,000 Poets (and friends)for Change, Global 2018. Come join us … share your work and read that of others.
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Corina Ravenscraft post on being the peace is a good reminder for 100TPC:
https://dragonkatet.wordpress.com/2018/09/16/find-your-balance-to-be-the-peace/
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Corina Ravenscraft’s Find your Balance to Be the Peace is also on Mr. Linky.
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Good early morning, America!
Saturday, September 29, 2018, has begun on your Eastern shores. And we are now live!
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Please browse through the virtual “reading,” like your favorites, leave comments where so moved.
We are continuing all day and we’ll into the night!
Enjoy!
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“souls and human beings” … a small collection of poems on poverty courtesy of: Irene Emanuel, Paul Brookes, Irma Do, Sonja Benskin Mesher, Marta Pombo Salles, bogpan (Bozhidar Pangelove), Wendy Bourke, and Alethea Kehas. https://wp.me/pne74-grA
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souls and human beings is posted on Mr. Linky.
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I am hosting the VIRTUAL 100,000 Poets for Change event on The BeZine now… check it out!
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Michael Dickel posted Overlook (2013) on Mr. Linky.
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John Anstie posted Pine Cone (Read a Poem to a Child) on Mr. Linky.
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Thank you, John!
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Clarissa Simmens posted Me for You on Mr. Linky.
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Friends, Poets and Writers…lend me your voices!
“…The evil that men do, lives after them….”
Let’s voice our willingness to undo some of that evil…join me and the Bardo Group Beguines at The BeZine for 100,000 Poets (and friends) for Change (100TPC). Share words and pictures (art, photography, video) on the themes of Peace, Sustainabilty and Social Justice.
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ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE WALDORF ASTORIA HOTEL, by Langston Hughes was posted on Mr. Linky by Jamie Dedes.
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Jamie Dedes posted do not make war, a poem
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Jamie Dedes posted The Damask Rose Garden, another story from The City of Ultimate Bliss on Mr. Linky.
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Mike Stone posted You Have the Power on Mr. Linky.
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Mike Stone posted Our Genesis on Mr. Linky.
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Mike Stone posted City of Peace on Mr. Linky.
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Mike Stone posted Don’t Hang the Poets on Mr. Linky.
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I just posted via Mr. Linky five poems from my current work-of-poetry-in-progress, “Call of the Whippoorwill”. The poems are “You Have the Power”, “Our Genesis”, “City of Peace”, “Don’t Hang the Poets”, and “The Old Colossus”. Make poetry, not war!
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Thank you, Mike! I have shared the links in comments here, as well as linking back to Mr. Linky. What a great selection!
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Mike Stone posted The Old Colossus on Mr. Linky.
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Yay! Mick Stone rocks.
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I Never Saw Another Butterfly
by Pavel Freidman
The last, the very last,
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun’s tears would sing
against a white stone. . . .
Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly ‘way up high.
It went away I’m sure because it wished to
kiss the world good-bye.
For seven weeks I’ve lived in here,
Penned up inside this ghetto.
But I have found what I love here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut branches in the court.
Only I never saw another butterfly.
That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don’t live in here,
in the ghetto.
Pavel was deported to Theresienstadt Concentration Camp on April 26, 1942 and later to Auschwitz, where he died on September 29, 1944. The poem was found when Theresienstadt was liberated in February 1945.
Pevel’s poem is included in and lends its name to the title of a collection of poems and artwork by the children and youth of Theresiesnstadt* and published by Hana Volavková and Jiří Weil in 1959.
I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children’s Drawings and Poems from the Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944
* Theresienstadt was the German name for Terezín, a Czech fortress. “After the Munich Agreement in September 1938 and following the occupation of the Czech lands in March 1939, with the existing prisons gradually filled up as a result of the Nazi terror, the Prague Gestapo Police prison was set up in the Small Fortress in 1940. The first inmates arrived on June 14, 1940. By the end of the war 32,000 prisoners of whom 5,000 were women passed through the Small Fortress. These were primarily Czechs, later other nationals, for instance citizens of the former Soviet Union, Poles, Germans and Yugoslavs. Most of the prisoners were arrested for various acts of resistance to the Nazi regime, they were later sent to the extermination camps like Mauthausen in many cases; it was also destiny of family members and supporters of the Reinhard Heydrich assassins. The Jewish Ghetto was created in 1941.” Wikipedia
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Albanian poet Farukh Buzhala, from Kosovo, has shared links related to his Read a Poet to a Child activities.
Here
and
Here
You can read three of his poems from the 2017 Poetry Month issue of The BeZine here.
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So very heartening to read the submitted works and see just how aware our poets and writers are.
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Joy Harjo’s Fear poem is posted on Mr. Linky.
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Joseph Hesch posted I Know She’s Out There…Somewhere on Mr. Linky.
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Iulia Gherghei posted the link to her poetry blog, Sky under construction, on Mr. Linky.
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Michael Dickel posted Again, his poem published and discussed in Haaretz, on Mr. Linky.
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This is another excellent excerpt from “War Surrounds Us.” Great photo taken by Aviva. 🙂
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I’m home with a cold today and the idea for writing about peace from my own personal perspective…in the present…came to me. Yes, there is much unrest and injustice throughout the world but we can’t ignore the many moments of peace that make up our lives. Thanks, Jamie (and your fine team), who do so much to shine light on the darkness.
Gayle xo
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Well, it’s a fine impulse, Gayle. Hope tomorrow finds you on the mend.
Gayle Walters Rose posted Here…Now…There is Peace
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Feeling much better today. I can handle a one day cold! 🙂
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Fear Poem, or I Give You Back
I release you, my beautiful and terrible
fear. I release you. You were my beloved
and hated twin, but now, I don’t know you
as myself. I release you with all the
pain I would know at the death of
my children.
You are not my blood anymore.
I give you back to the soldiers
who burned down my home, beheaded my children,
raped and sodomized my brothers and sisters.
I give you back to those who stole the
food from our plates when we were starving.
I release you, fear, because you hold
these scenes in front of me and I was born
with eyes that can never close.
I release you
I release you
I release you
I release you
I am not afraid to be angry.
I am not afraid to rejoice.
I am not afraid to be black.
I am not afraid to be white.
I am not afraid to be hungry.
I am not afraid to be full.
I am not afraid to be hated.
I am not afraid to be loved.
to be loved, to be loved, fear.
Oh, you have choked me, but I gave you the leash.
You have gutted me but I gave you the knife.
You have devoured me, but I laid myself across the fire.
I take myself back, fear.
You are not my shadow any longer.
I won’t hold you in my hands.
You can’t live in my eyes, my ears, my voice
my belly, or in my heart my heart
my heart my heart
But come here, fear
I am alive and you are so afraid
of dying.
c Joy Harjo and W.W. Norton, from She Had Some Horses
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As we close out 29 September, 2018, in the US West Coast time zone:
Pity the Nation, voices of Poet Prophets, connected poems by Kahlil Gibran and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, posted by Jamie Dedes on Mr. Linky.
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“verde que te quiero verde”
(with acknowledgement to “Romance Sonambulo” by Lorca)
by debasis mukhopadhyay
butterflies soaring in sweet lethargy waltz themselves off eyes of a rose lipped mermaid / she thought waters paint the rhubarb sky for an endless time & the cluster of berries drop at the break of a rainbow like a lullaby, & not like the filaments of blood of her lover / one who would muse at the gypsy moon rooted between her ribs & lament : “green, how i want you green” / wars slide across the ballads that cannot last the vacant place of moorings that float / only as a somnambulist he can wake up again convinced that drawing crosses under moving stars feels like a tender transcendence never to be separated from her flesh /
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Debasis, I’m so pleased you joined with us in this effort. How delightful and what a fine and moving poems. Thank you!
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Thank You Jamie! I’m proud to be part of this!
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Nice, Debasis.
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Thanks Michael!
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J Matthew Waters posted a-riding on a pony come memorial day—text and audio—on Mr. Linky.
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