empower girls – The BeZine

In Pakistan the theme for International Women’s Day is “Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures.” In solidarity (I just picked a country at random), I am reblogging this poem, which I wrote last year.” I hope the day will come when all people – regardless of country or gender – are able to express themselves creatively in whatever way and whatever field resonates for them.

I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates. Tillie Ollsen (1912-2007), American writer and feminist

I READ A POEM

Jamie Dedes

I read a poem today and decided

I must deed it to some lost, lonely

fatherless child to embrace her

along her stone path, invoke sanity

I want to tell her: don’t sell your

dreams for cash or buy the social OS*

Instead, let the poem play you like a

musician her viola, rewriting lonely

into sapphire solitude, silken sanctity

Let it wash you like the spray of whales

Let it drench your body in the music

of your soul, singing pure prana into

the marrow and margins of your life

Let the poet-shaman name your muse

and find you posing poetry as art and

discover the amethyst bliss of words

woven from strands of your own DNA.

Yes. I read a poem today and decided

I must deed it to a lost fatherless child

* OS – Operating System

Photo credit – Jaime Junior, Public Domain Photographs.net

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Women’s Day Live 2012

Video uploaded to YouTube by vbsondemand.

CELEBRATING WOMEN

Jamie Dedes

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY is on March 8. If you are searching for blogging themes this month (festivities are month-long and not restricted to the one day), you’ve got them here. This global event creates space to celebrate economic, political, and social contributions of women. Governments, organizations, charities, and women’s groups choose themes that reflect gender issues, which may have a global or a local focus. No reason why you can’t choose a theme for a post or poem that relates to issues most significant to you. Or, you can stick with a theme that is the focus in your community. You’ll find the themes listed in the blog roll HERE along with lists of events in your area. Some of the themes being explored this year are:

Empower Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty (United Nations)
Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures (International Women’s Day 2012 Website)
Equal pay for work of equal value (European Parliament)
Strong Leadership. Strong Women. Strong World: Equality (Canada)
Unite to End Violence Against Women (Australia, UNIFEM)
Our Women, Our State (Australia, Queensland Government Office for Women
Sharing the Caring for the Future (Australia, WA Department for Communities)
Success in Globally Integrated Enterprise (USA, Woment@ IBM)
Women’s Voices and Influence (UK, Doncaster Council)
Stretch Yourself: Achieving 50:50 in the boardroom by 2020 (UK, Accenture)
Bridging the Generational Gap (UK, Doncaster Council: Women’s Voices and Influence)

For more information on this event link to International Women’s Day 2012.

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AND SINCE WE ARE CELEBRATING WOMEN, WHY NOT TWO OF OUR OWN?: Two poets and writers in our blogging community recently had new books accepted for publication. They are Victoria C. Slotto (an Into the Bardo contributing writer) and Heather Grace Stewart. Congratulations ladies!

Meet and greet Victoria on March 21 if you are in Southern California:

Victoria will be at a book fair in Rancho Mirage on March 21st at the Rancho Mirage Library 10AM to 2PM.

If you live in Quebec, mark your calendar’s for Heather’s launch party in May.

Carry On Dancing Launch Party May 8, 2012: 4873 St. Laurent Blvd. Doors open 8:30 p.m. Bar & coffee bar Music by Kimberly Beyea & Jim Bland. Can’t wait to celebrate with you! Details HERE.

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